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SSDs can lose data in seven days
Solid State Drives (SSD) can start to lose their data and become corrupted if they are left without power for as little as a week, according to a new Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC)...
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Submerge your supercomputer in liquid
A team of boffins have discovered that if you take your supercomputer and immerse it in tanks of liquid coolant you can make it super efficient. The Vienna Science Cluster uses immersion cooling which...
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Car makers read the riot act to tech companies
While tech companies are rushing to make deals with car makers for high tech autos, a spat is developing over all that data the cars generate. The technology companies want from the car makers –...
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Apple wants to know what is in your bank account
Fruity cargo cult Apple thinks it is perfectly acceptable for it to look into your bank account to see what you can afford. One of Jobs’ Mob’s biggest problems it that its fanboys do not have enough...
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Governments bugging Facebook much more
Social notworking site Facebook claims that government demands for its user data surged in the first half of 2015. Facebook’s biannual report is one of the chief indicators of government interest in...
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EU brings in tough data control guidelines
New EU data protection rules which aim to give citizens back control of their personal data and create a high, uniform level of data protection across the EU was given the final nod by MEPs. The reform...
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Privacy group launches legal challenge against US data deal
An Irish privacy group has issued a legal challenge against an EU deal which allows Euro data to end up in US hands. The EU-US Privacy Shield commercial data transfer pact has been running for two...
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EU watchdogs want privacy assurances from Trump
European Union data privacy watchdogs are demanding that a move by US President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump to crack down on illegal immigration will not undermine a transatlantic pact protecting...
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US FCC wants to reform big data to help poor telcos
The Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission wants to ease regulatory requirements in the $45 billion business data services market. This is a win for AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon but...
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Two violent game studies have been retracted
Two highly public scientific studies which claim that there is a link between violent computer games and real violence have been mysteriously pulled. The first, entitled “Boom, Headshot!” published in...
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