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Researchers find a way to easily retrieve data stored in DNA
DNA as a possible method of data storage just moved a step closer towards viability, after researchers found a way to make such data searchable and directly accessible. The University of Washington researchers encoded four images in DNA, then were able to retrieve them perfectly using a technique called Huffman Coding, which is normally used ...
Diamonds may hold the secret to quantum computing
Researchers at MIT may have just cracked one of the biggest challenges in their path to building a quantum computer. The concept of quantum superposition refers to the ability of ‘qubits’, the atomic-scale building blocks of quantum computers, to inhabit multiple physical states at once. Qubits are able to perform computations at orders of magnitude ...
Dell SecureWorks report: Hacking courses, corporate emails accounts for just $500, and much, much more
Cybercrime has gotten so sophisticated that the underground market for such services is little different from more legitimate markets. Hackers on underground forums promote their abilities and products to prospective buyers by listing their experience and skills, while showing off how “honest” they are. Some hackers even boast of things like 24/7 customer service, while ...
OpenStack Mitaka release focuses on ease of use
OpenStack’s evolution continues with the release of its 13th edition, Mitaka. The new release is positioned as “an integration engine that can manage bare metal, virtual machines, and container orchestration frameworks with a single set of APIs” and brings improvements in the areas of manageability, scalability and end-user experience, the community said. In many ways, ...
Gartner predicts worldwide IT spending will decline 0.5% in 2016
Gartner Inc. is warning vendors to prepare for a global decrease in IT spending that it blames on economic uncertainty and currency fluctuations. The gloomy prediction was posted yesterday, with Gartner predicting that global IT spending will fall by 0.5 percent this year to $3.49 trillion, compared with the $3.5 trillion spent last year. Many ...
Jeff Bezos reckons AWS will surpass $10bn in sales this year
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing at such a terrific rate that it’s poised to hit $10 billion in annual sales this year, according to company founder Jeff Bezos. If true, and there’s no real reason to doubt Bezos, it would mean AWS is growing even faster than its parent company Amazon.com, Inc. “This year, ...
Dell presses EMC to sell off Documentum to reduce its debt burden
There’s no sign of the rumor mill letting up over at Dell Inc., which having sold its IT services business for $3 billion and listed its Quest and SonicWall units for sale, is now looking to dump EMC Corp.’s content management business formerly known as Documentum. The latest rumor comes by way of Bloomberg, which ...
New API speeds access to Google Cloud Datastore
Google has introduced a new cross-platform API that’s designed to deliver faster access to its Cloud Datastore NoSQL database for non-Google App Engine users. Google’s Cloud Datastore API is currently in beta for the company’s cloud customers, and is said to bring improvements to both the performance and reliability of the database when accessed by ...
Intel buys Italian startup Yogitech to beef up self-driving car safety
Intel is expanding its Internet of Things horizons with the acquisition of Italian startup Yogitech S.p.A, which designs systems to ensure the functional safety of semiconductors used in the automotive industry. Ken Caviasca, who is vice president and general manager of platform engineering and development in the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel, was giving the ...
Amazon acquired AI startup Orbeus late last year
Amazon.com, Inc., secretly acquired an image processing-focused machine learning startup in the shape of Orbeus Inc. and hired “nearly all” of its employees late last year, according to a report in Bloomberg that cited a person familiar with the matter. The cloud computing and retail giant snapped up Sunnyvale, California-based Orbeus in fall of last ...