Month: October 2016
Kodak turns classic Ektra camera into Android smartphone with 21MP lens
Kodak has entered the smartphone market with an Android handset focused on prosumer photographers. The Kodak Ektra is modelled on the iconic 1941 chrome and leatherette 35mm camera of the same name....
Russian arrested in Prague over 2012 LinkedIn hack
A Russian man has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into LinkedIn in 2012. The man was picked up during a raid on a hotel in Prague with the assistance of the FBI. He was detained for 12 hours after...
Lessons to be learned from attempted $1bn bank heist
FAST to demand damages for ‘historic’ software theft by companies
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), the not-for-profit organisation that fights enterprise software piracy, is planning to step up its campaign by demanding money for what it calls "historic...
How enterprise software development is changing
Pokémon Go: Niantic CTO says cloud was key to controlling ‘rocket ship’ uptake of game
The wild success of Pokémon Go earlier this year took the team behind the game, Niantic Labs, totally by surprise as demand reached 50 times the firm’s highest estimates before launch. Phil Keslin,...
Stephen Hawking: AI will be ‘either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity’
Professor Stephen Hawking has stated that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be either a huge benefit, or an equally significant threat to humanity. Speaking at the...
Google launches Coldline archive storage offering to rival AWS Glacier
Google has announced a new storage archive service called Coldline that will compete with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Glacier offering. Brian Stevens, vice president of product for the Google Cloud...