Both organizations and everyday users are always glad to hear the internet is speeding up. Thanks to Google’s engineers – or rather their new congestion control algorithm, the Google Cloud Platform can achieve higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. We’re talking about the same a
On Friday, January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily blocks travel for immigrants from seven Muslim countries and suspends the US refugee system. This attempt to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US” has been met with plenty of infuriated reactions from all o
Remember those movie scenes where the protagonists are trying to track someone down, and they have to keep them on the phone until the police or agency can pinpoint the perp’s location? They usually need about 1 minute or so for the tracking software to work, but the bad guys always seem to know e
Earlier this week, Apple was ordered by a U.S. judge to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of the San Bernardino shooting that took place in December 2015. The judge ruled that the tech giants must provide “reasonable technical assistance” (aka break into) the phone belonging to on
President Obama released the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) – a response to the growing number of cyberattacks on federal networks that seeks seeking $19 billion for cybersecurity, a considerable increase from last year (more than 35%). The plan aims to strengthen not only the security o
Microsoft announced in a blog post the release of its first technical preview of Azure Stack. The release will take place live on Friday, January 29. The event will be followed on February 3 by webcast where Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure) and Jeffrey Snover (Chief Architect, Enterprise
It feels like this dispute began ages ago, but after several failed appeals by Samsung, it seems that the two tech giants may be finally closing one chapter of their patent war. The South Korean company agreed to pay $548 million to Apple in a filing on the 3rd of December 2015. How it all began
The private cloud built for the Central Intelligence Agency by Amazon Web Services has gone live, according to a report from Defense One . Doug Wolfe, CIA’s Chief Information Officer, admitted that the agency realized that there are better specialists out there on some areas, and the time has come t
Few countries around the globe can hype a presidential election like the U.S. can. Citizen involvement in the elections has always been an important part in U.S. history, therefore the same goes for everything campaign related. Harry S. Truman is famous for his efforts during the presidential
The preservation of public records has always been an important matter for any government. Records are created for a variety of activities such as vehicle registration, professional licensing, procurement contract transactions, general correspondence, and others. The usual ways in which records are
