Google Genomics, the cloud-based computing business that is racing to increase its share of online DNA analytics, on Wednesday began offering a cloud service version of the popular DNA analysis software from the Broad Institute, a biomedical research organization. The Google Inc research tie-up comes as academic institutions and healthcare companies are choosing between Google and other technology companies, like Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and International Business Machines Corp, to
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – [GETTY.UL] has become the latest company to take its grievances with Google to EU antitrust regulators as it accused the world’s most popular Internet search engine of favoring its own images service at the expense of rivals. The complaint comes as the European Commission waits for Google to respond to charges of abusing its market power in a dozen EU countries since 2007
UK and US intelligence services have been relentlessly pursuing Kaspersky Labs and other antivirus software companies to gain detailed information on users. First reported by The Intercept, the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK GCHQ used reverse engineering to gain access to antivirus software and monitored web and email traffic to gain intelligence about users and the antivirus companies themselves. The information, which was contained in documents released by
Amazon has just announced the top ten most pre-ordered goodies announced at this year’s E3 show, with the Rare Replay bundle ruling the roost at the top. The nostalgic gaming collection is packaging up 30 of the studio’s most successful games for the Xbox One, as announced at Microsoft’s show-stopping conference. The bundle, including the awesome N64 shooter, Perfect Dark, has obviously grabbed the attention of the gaming public at
By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc launched a free version of its music streaming service on Tuesday, as it sought to upstage the debut of Apple Inc’s rival service next week. Google Play Music has offered a $9.99 per month subscription service for two years but Tuesday’s launch is the first free version of the streaming service. It is available online and will be available on Android
Amazon Echo, the e-commerce site’s ambitious, but flawed voice-controlled Bluetooth speaker is now available for pre-order in the US. The device had a soft launch earlier this year, and was only available by invite only. After a few months and some much-needed improvements to the Alexa-powered device, that barrier to entry has finally lowered. If you live in the US, Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for the device, which runs
Lenovo has made good on its promise to release a Compute Stick of its own to compete with Intel by announcing the ideacentre Stick 300. Labeled as an affordable personal computer that fits in the palm of your hand, Lenovo’s first stick PC can practically turn any display into a computer for media consumption, web browsing, video calls and more. All the ideacentre Stick 300 needs to hook up to
If you’ve been experiencing stuttering or lagging playing the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, don’t rip off your Bat Cape in anger just yet: it may be fixable with a simple tweak. As it turns out, the caped crusader’s latest outing has launched with a 30FPS limit, which can be removed by editing the settings file located in the directory folder below: “STEAM_INSTALL_FOLDERBatman Arkham KnightBmGameConfigBmSystemSettings.ini” Once you’re in there,
1. Download the tools While Microsoft Windows doesn’t have that much in common with the version of Linux that runs on the Raspberry Pi, it doesn’t mean Windows users are at a disadvantage. This is because the types of applications that run on Windows are just as diverse, and it’s an operating system that can lend itself to so many different uses, that the do-everything attitude behind Windows is just
Android M release date, news and features It’s been a whole year since Android Lollipop was announced at IO 2014, so it’s about time Google took to the stage and announced its successor – and thankfully it’s done just that. Say hello to Android M, the latest mobile platform from Google, where thousands of bugs have been squashed and a new layer of polish and quality has been applied. We
