2020-03-05 12:00
TV tech terms demystified, part four: LED backlighting
Somewhere along the line, thin and light supplanted picture quality as the secondary priority for TV purchases; the primary consideration for most of us being price. Perhaps it was the memory of the CRT behemoths that preceded the LCD revol
2020-03-05 12:00
Facebook changes its Libra plans to include more cryptocurrencies
Facebook’s plans to launch its Libra cryptocurrency tied to cash appear to be making a course correction, as the social network now appears to be planning to support not only its own digital token through its online wallet but others off
2020-03-05 12:00
Authentication, identity management start-ups lead 2019 VC investing
The red-hot venture capital (VC) investment trend for cybersecurity start-ups turned white hot during 2019, with the number of investments deals in “pure-play” cybersecurity companies soaring from 2018 levels. According to one set of nu
2020-03-05 12:00
What is human-centered design? A product framework that embraces empathy
Human-centered design (HCD) is a design framework for creating products, services, hardware and software that are built to meet the specific needs of clients, users or customers. HCD is typically used in technology when developing products
2020-03-05 12:00
How to install Python the smart way
Python is easy to use, friendly to the beginner, and powerful enough to create robust software with for nearly any application. But it is still a piece of software like any other, meaning it can be complex to set up and manage.
2020-03-05 12:00
How agile teams can support incident management
No one enjoys being woken up in the middle of the night or having a weekend interrupted because of a major incident disrupting application reliability or performance. When an application is truly down and impacts business operations, few de
2020-03-05 12:00
Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands
Popular online marketplace Etsy recently completed a two-year migration from 2,000 on-premises servers to Google Cloud. The Etsy website and mobile app provide an online shop window to makers of hand-crafted and niche goods, but with more t
2020-03-05 12:00
Apache Brooklyn 1.0 arrives for autonomic cloud computing
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Brooklyn 1.0, a production-level release of the open source framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing applications deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
2020-03-05 02:46
#RIPTwitter trends as firm tests vanishing tweets
Users took to Twitter to complain the micro-blogging site was just following the competition.
2020-03-05 01:05
Cashmere and climate change threaten nomadic life
Mongolia, the world's second-largest cashmere producer, is hit by overgrazing and rising temperatures.