Will beam back images of objects as small as 30cm

An American firm is preparing to launch a satellite which will map the world in a higher resolution than the public has ever seen before.…

Docker-friendly Linux to offer private repository storage

Cloud-friendly Linux vendor CoreOS has snapped up Docker container hosting startup Quay for an undisclosed sum, in a move designed to flesh out its offering for business customers.…

But virty giant’s magic code misses the first cloud cut

A pod of former VMware engineers armed with OpenStack and $4.5m in venture cash have thrown their hats into the ring against Amazon’s AWS.…

Siri rival Viv: ‘I’ve used it on my watch to show off sometimes’

An app and service where other people ‘see’ for you

A new app and service aimed at people with sight impairments is being cooked up on Silicon Roundabout.…

Updates a-comin’ for those who haven’t traded up to version 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 hit general availability in July, but that doesn’t mean Shadowman has stopped polishing the version 6 branch of its flagship Linux distribution, despite it being nearly four years old.…

Redmond owes us this ‘Hyperlapse’ tech after inflicting PowerPoint on the world

VID  Shaky GoPro videos are the new post-holiday family slide nights: just as seeing an Uncle’s slides of their most recent journey is tedious, helmet-cam footage of your rellies hurtling down a hillside on a mountain bike is evocative for those who’ve done it, but contextless and dizzying for anyone else.…

Patent prompts rumou… WTF is THAT? Whose finger?

A newly granted patent has revealed Apple’s plans to free its mobile assistant Siri from the iPhone and unleash it upon desktops.…

Love of WebGL after 14 years an outsider

Microsoft has quietly joined an industry party building 3D interactive graphics boosted by graphics chips, after 14 years spent in opposition.…

New SPIR spec makes compute kernel compilation a breeze

Siggraph 2014  As the 41st Siggraph computer graphics conference kicks off in Vancouver this week, industry standards body the Khronos Group has announced updates to two of its most important specs.…