Magic mushrooms help cancer patients cope with fear and depression

Custom silicon, 9PB storage boxes, and 25Gb Ethernet – just another day in AWS hardware

Turns out printing money requires a buttload of compute muscle AWS re:Invent  AWS says it has moved into building its own silicon to help deliver the throughput for its massive cloud service.…

NSW government innovates, with visa workers taking over IT roles

Oh, there was an innovation strategy speech as well The New South Wales (NSW) Public Service Association has hit the ceiling about the Australian state's decision to hire IT staff from overseas for the outsourcing of its ServiceFirst shared service …

Wow. What a shock. The FBI will get its bonus hacking powers after all

Rule 41 makes life easier for Feds, cops to target Tor, VPN users, and malware victims Three last-ditch legislative efforts to block the changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure have failed, and from tomorrow the Feds will find …

Custom silicon, 9PB storage boxes, and 25Gb Ethernet – just another day in AWS hardware

Turns out printing money requires a buttload of compute muscle AWS re:Invent  AWS says it has moved into building its own silicon to help deliver the throughput for its massive cloud service.…

Fitbit is reportedly close to buying Pebble

Apple acknowledges the new iCal spam problem, says its working on it

 If you use iCal and have noticed a weird, sudden influx of calendar invites suggesting you buy bootleg purse knockoffs… you’re not alone. Just before Black Friday, spammers started tapping a relatively new technique: sending spam as event invites t…

Canada mulls taxing Netflix five per cent of its subscription cash

You like streaming, huh? Stream that money our way, says America's Hat The Canadian government will consider a new digital tax that would see Netflix required to set aside five per cent of its gross revenues.…

What you need to know from re:Invent – FPGAs-as-a-service and more

Just give it to me straight AWS re:Invent  At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets.…

Cheap virtual box hosters – Amazon's Lightsail is out to destroy you (yes, you, Digital Ocean)

Lack of bill shock insurance could prove daunting for devs Now that it dominates the public cloud market, Amazon is setting its sights lower – on developers deploying small projects – in the hope that these customers will remain within the AWS ecosy…

What you need to know from re:Invent – FPGAs-as-a-service and more

Just give it to me straight AWS re:Invent  At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets.…

'Tim Cook mailt klant: Apple begint levering Airpods in komende weken'

Apple begint in de komende weken met het leveren van zijn draadloze oordopjes Airpods. Dat zou directeur Tim Cook gezegd hebben in een e-mail aan een klant die hem erom vroeg. Cook heeft eerder mails van willekeurige klanten beantwoord.

Lenovo-topman: Moto Mod met Google Tango voor Moto Z is 'waarschijnlijk'

Lenovo komt 'waarschijnlijk' met een Moto Mod voor de Moto Z voor Google Tango, de technologie van de zoekgigant om augmented reality op smartphones mogelijk te maken. Lenovo werkte eerder met Google aan de Phab 2 Pro, een smartphone met Tango-onder…

Jersey sore: Anchor rips into island's undersea cables, sinks net access

Captain likely to walk the plank Internet speeds on the UK island of Jersey have been slashed – literally – after a ship's anchor destroyed three submarine cables linking the isle to the British mainland.…

Jersey sore: Anchor rips into island's undersea cables, sinks net access

Captain likely to walk the plank Internet speeds on the UK island of Jersey have been slashed – literally – after a ship's anchor destroyed three submarine cables linking the isle to the British mainland.…

Smartphones zonder 4g verkopen nauwelijks meer in westerse landen

Consumenten in Westerse landen kopen vrijwel alleen maar smartphones met 4g. Toestellen met 3g als snelste mobiele netwerk vormen nog maar 6 procent van de markt, schat analistenbureau IDC in. Dat was een jaar geleden nog 15 procent.

OnePlus brengt bèta uit van Android Nougat-firmware voor OP3

Fabrikant OnePlus heeft een bètaversie uitgebracht van zijn firmware op basis van Android 7.0 Nougat voor de OnePlus 3. De Chinese smartphonemaker beloofde eerder dat de over-the-air update voor het einde van het jaar zal verschijnen.

Apple releases new tvOS 10.1 beta to developers

Apple has seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming tvOS 10.1 update to developers for testing purposes. The developer beta can be downloaded through the Apple Developer Center or the Software Up…

PowerProduction Software releases Martini v3 storyboarding plug-in

PowerProduction Software and MacVideo have teamed up for version 3 of Martini, PowerProduction Software’s storyboarding plug-in for Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Com…

Tor Browser vulnerability used to attack visitors to a child porn site

Qubes goes commercial as a 'financial necessity' for future development

Security is expensive – so cough up Financial necessity is forcing the security research group behind Qubes OS to begin establishing commercial funding to support its continued development.…