Amazon has added another VM instance to its AWS (Amazon Web Services) could computing platform. M4, as it is known, uses custom Intel Xeon Haswell-based processors; the E5-2676 v3 is clocked at 2.4GHz and appears to be a variant of the 2670. It comes with 30MB of L2 cache, 12 cores/24 threads and support for 768GB of system memory. Five instances are available, with the largest, m4.10xlarge, offering up to
Apache Spark has attracted its biggest supporter yet, with IBM promising to run most of the company’s services on the open source cluster computing framework; that includes Bluemix, Watson Health Cloud and all its analytics and commerce platforms. In addition, Big Blue said that more than 3,500 of its staff will work on Spark-related projects and will create a Spark Technology Center in San Francisco, California. The company will also
About a year or so ago I wrote a piece on why Nintendo missed an opportunity to draw the Wii U and 3DS closer together. My thinking was that, with a few hardware and software tweaks, Nintendo could offer better cross-platform compatibility between the 3DS and Wii U, while also allowing its handheld to be used as a Wii U controller. Today, I stumbled on a YouTube video purporting to
Intelligent Environments, a specialist in mobile and online financial services, has come up with a way of making online banking even more secure by swapping the traditional four number pin code with emoji icons. The thought of ditching numbers for smiley faces and cartoon thumbs up might sound ridiculous but this could actually make your phone more secure. Although emojis are more common with youngsters sending texts, Intelligent Environments believes
Amazon is on a quest to find new parts of your body to unlock a smartphone, and it’s getting further up your torso with every attempt. The online retailer has filed a new patent that includes technology to unlock your phone if it’s placed against your ear – an offering which sounds pretty redundant if you ask us. According to the science people your ear can be as unique as
Age: 40 Company: Yahoo Best known for: Her work on Google’s search engine, CEO of Yahoo Quote: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.” ‘Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?’. That has been the question on many peoples’ lips for a while now. When Mayer was appointed CEO and President of the company in 2012, Yahoo was sinking and needed a hero. Long before joining
TechRadar Pro has partnered with Czech-based security outfit, Avast, to offer free 12-month licenses of its award winning Avast Pro 2015 security package to all our readers, regardless of their location. The deal, which has been struck exclusively with Avast, is worth up to £30 (about $45/AU$60) and can be used on one computer only. You can decide to keep Avast Pro (it will revert to the free edition), remove
Introduction Everybody Googles, but not everybody is getting the most out of the big G. A few simple tips can focus your search, return more relevant results, track custom URLs and make searching much smarter. The following article details 10 of our favourite ways to find Google’s G spots. You might also want to check out: Google Drive and Docs tips: 20 expert tricks and shortcuts Use operators for precise
By Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such intimate and possibly damaging facts about millions of government and private employees
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of Twitter’s earlier investors, told Reuters he believed Jack Dorsey would bring continuity to the social messaging firm and he would back him if he wished to become chief executive permanently. Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, was named interim head last Thursday after Chief Executive Dick Costolo abruptly announced he was stepping down effective July 1. In a written statement to Reuters, Alwaleed
