The demand for high volumes of data has increased the need for databases that can handle both data ingestion and querying with the lowest possible latency (aka high performance). To meet this demand, database designs have shifted to prioritize minimal work during ingestion and querying, with other tasks being performed in the background as post-ingestion
Read MoreHere’s an observation I’ve made many times in my career: If your business is plateauing, it’s time to go vertical. In other words, when you run out of potential market runway, look for horizontally focused products (cross-industries) such as databases, integration brokers, or development systems. Develop those products to fill a niche, then announce that
Read MorePeter Kafka / Vox: Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation’s impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more — “Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos.
Read MoreToday’s devices can be thrown off by the slightest environmental interference. Algorithmiq is developing ways to counteract this and harness quantum’s power.
Read MoreFrom One Night in Miami … to Licorice Pizza, these are the best films available on the streamer.
Read MoreAs the heart of a distributed energy network, EVs will be hard at work, even when they’re stationary.
Read MoreDigitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of.
Read MoreIn the news today, Afghanistan has made its first sports car, and it’s a sleek and low-slung model with a throaty exhaust note that would get a second look on the Autobahn just as much as it does on the streets of Kabul. Making a modern sports car is an impressive achievement no matter where
Read MoreThe sun sustains all life on Earth, but that’s not going to be the case forever. Eventually, the sun will exhaust its nuclear fuel and expand to engulf Earth and the other inner planets on its way to becoming a burnt-out cinder known as a white dwarf. It may also form a planetary nebula like
Read MoreWhen the automobile industry really began to take off in the 1930s, radar was barely in its infancy, and there was no reason to think something that complicated would ever make its way into the typical car. Yet here we stand less than 100 years later, and radar has been perfected and streamlined so much
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researcher: firmware for 290+ MSI motherboards has a default UEFI Secure Boot setting that lets any OS run, even those lacking a signature — Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image …
Read MoreThe big HomePod has been discontinued for a little while, but rumour has it that it could be coming back.
Read MoreToday could be the day we finally get a look at the long-expected M2 MacBook Pro models.
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! Yesterday was Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year — and we had snow in Scotland which still hasn’t melted. Luckily today’s a bit cheerier as it’s Terrific Tuesday (ok, so that’s not official, but I’m going with it). Google’s “Grogu” AirTag competitor
Read MoreSam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to integrate OpenAI’s tools into all of its products and make them available for other businesses to build on — Offering for businesses and end users to be transformed by incorporating tools like ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella says
Read MoreCharles Hymas / Telegraph: The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs — Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data …
Read MoreApple has removed the Retro Pod app from its App Store after it went viral as a way to emulate old iPods on your iPhone.
Read MoreApple is investigating reports that its iPhone 14 and newest Apple Watch models may be triggering false 911 calls, particularly during activities like skiing.
Read MorePatrick McGee / Financial Times: How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated — The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication. Now, a reckoning is coming
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China — Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business …
Read MoreFinancial Times: A look at Elon Musk’s options to meet financial obligations from a $13B Twitter buyout debt; sources: the first interest installment could be due by January-end — Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Modern smartphones are pretty big, which means there isn’t a lot of space in our pockets for these devices. Then again, women’s clothing tends to miss out on usable pockets in the first place. Nevertheless, we were curious to find out how you stored your phone in your pocket.
Read MoreFinding space to dry clothes can be challenging in smaller spaces. [Tom Parker] solved this conundrum in his one bedroom apartment by putting a drying rack in his stairwell. By making the laundry rack fold up above the stairwell, [Parker] can dry his clothes without them taking up a lot of precious floor space. A
Read MoreWe’ve already seen leaked renders of the so-called Google Pixel Fold. Now, YouTuber Dave2D has obtained what looks like a dummy model of the phone, supposedly made for case manufacturers. While there’s no hardware in the case model, the YouTuber’s been told it’s dimensional accurate. This means that the camera positioning, hinge design, bezels, etc,
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