Sculpting India’s engineering-industry ecosystem Yahoo Daily News “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action,” said English philosopher Herbert Spencer, and it is through trial and error that a student gets to understand the subtle nuances of engineering and innovation. As we flip back the pages of...
Facebook bets on chatbot resurgence Deccan Herald To browse for a pair of brown loafers on Facebook Messenger, you can now text a message to the service to begin a conversation with the mobile shopping startup Spring. Spring will ask you for a preferred price range for the shoes and show a smatterin...
Behind the Scenes / ‘Internet of Things’ not without risks The Japan News By Masako Wakae / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior WriterA world where everything is connected to the Internet — convenient no doubt, but not without risk. The so-called Internet of Things (IoT, see below) is growing, but without proper security it is no dif...
The most successful company founded in your birth year WPTV About of all businesses fail within five years. Only a quarter make it to the 15-year mark. Even then, the majority of survivors will be small operations, often based in a home. | So it is that companies like Anthem, VISA, Microsoft and Facebook are ...
Ransomware as a Service: A new threat to businesses everywhere The Examiner Cyber criminals have been attempting to extort money from individuals and companies for many years, and the latest attempt to take advantage of others is by using Ransomware as a Service, or RaaS. | A ransomware virus infects a computer when a user c...
Bosch Unveils Cloud Services for Internet of Things Newsfactor German global engineering and electronics firm Bosch has launched a suite of cloud-based services for the Internet of Things. The new services, designed to build on the company's existing sensor, software and connectivity offerings, were announced du...
Updated: Xbox One TechRadar Introduction and design | The new Xbox that emerged at launch was both traditional and under-featured, a disappointment borne of a company reeling from the negative reaction to its original vision and trying to offer something else in a short space o...
The History of Classic Video Games - The Industry Crash and Rebirth About.com By 1983 gaming consumers were drowning in a flooded console market with mostly sub-par game offerings. Suddenly one of the fastest growing and most profitable industries crashes. Most of the industry players move out of the gaming market or close the...
Who is Robin Seggelmann and did his Heartbleed break the internet? Sydney Morning Herald German computer programmer Robin Seggelman has been outed as the man whose coding mistake, now known as Heartbleed, has left millions of internet users and thousands of websites vulnerable to hackers. | The discovery, by a Google engineer and Finnish...
Five advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing The Examiner Cloud computing can basically be defined as doing work on your local computer, but storing the data on a server at another location. Before entrusting your data to someone else, there are 5 advantages and disadvantages you should consider. | Advantag...
Report: German automakers to recall 630,000 cars Business Insider BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa is reporting that several of the country's automakers are going to recall a total of 630,000 cars following an investigation into emissions levels. | Citing unidentified government sources, dpa reported Friday that the manufacturers would need to change technology used to switch off the vehicles' emissions tre...
