A bill that recently won state Senate committee approval would make California the first state to require utilities to dole out rebates to customers who install energy storage systems. The Energy Storage Initiative (SB700) was approved last week by the state’s Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee and is awaiting a full senate vote. The…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote on May 18 to kick off a proceeding to “reverse the mistake” of the agency’s 2-year-old net neutrality rules, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said. The rulemaking proceeding would be the first step toward repealing the regulations and reversing the agency’s 2015 decision to classify broadband as a regulated,…
A market for enterprise-use smartwatches is slowly emerging, being led by the Apple Watch, according to market research firm IDC. “Apple Watch in particular, and to some extent other smartwatches, do have relevance in the enterprise, although to date the usage has been quite low as the market is still nascent,” IDC analyst Jitesh Ubrani…
Microsoft yesterday added another update cycle to Windows 10’s monthly patching, saying that the new collection of non-security-only fixes would give corporate customers the “increased flexibility” they had demanded. On Monday, Michael Niehaus, director of Windows 10 product marketing, announced the new monthly update, saying that the company would initially issue it only to customers…
Google servers inside Cuba are now live on the internet, marking a major milestone in the country’s communications evolution and promising faster access to Google’s services for Cuban users. The computers are part of Google’s global network of caching servers, which store frequently requested content locally so it doesn’t have to be accessed over long…
Even the good news is bad news. While Joshua Corman didn’t use that exact line in his opening keynote at SOURCE Boston this week, that was a pervasive, and sobering, theme. Corman, a founder of I am The Cavalry and director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, said he was there to…
Google Assistant is already a great help in the kitchen when we need to convert something from pints to cups or remember to buy eggs on our next shopping trip. But with a new update to Google Home, it’s graduating to full-on sous chef. In a feature rolling out to users just in time for…
Facebook must obtain the permission of German users of WhatsApp before processing their personal data, a German court confirmed on Tuesday. Last August, Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp changed its privacy policy to allow the transfer of its users’ personal information to Facebook for processing. That angered the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information,…
Tencent Holdings has opened a data center in Silicon Valley on Tuesday, with four more planned outside China as part of its bid to grow its cloud business outside the country. The proposed data centers in Frankfurt, Mumbai, Seoul and Moscow are targeted at Chinese companies looking to expand overseas and international companies expanding their…
Data analytics company Palantir will pay US$1.7 million in back pay and stock options to settle charges that it routinely discriminated against Asian job applicants. In addition, it must also hire eight people from among those it allegedly discriminated against. The charges go back to September last year, when the Department of Labor accused Palantir of rejecting…