Google says its new optimizing compiler tech is gradually speeding up JavaScript execution in its Chrome browser – and it one day hopes it can rip out all the old compiler code and replace it with something better.…
Analysis New BlackBerry handsets are coming with unrecognized part numbers, which were spotted on an Indian import database.…
The United States National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) XKEYSCORE spookware, revealed by Edward Snowden as capable of sniffing and analysing just about any data from anywhere, runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.…
Blighty has dodged the price hike bullet that Microsoft is set to fire into Europe and Australia, which will see customers paying more for Azure cloud services – much more, in fact.…
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who was charged with stealing code from the firm’s high-frequency trading software, has had his conviction overturned a second time.…
News bytes A social networking website built in Brazil is touting itself as a sin-free version of Facebook.…
Microsoft is promising $500,000 to researchers and developers who will build apps for its Hololens headset.…
Video StreetView means Google owns one of the world’s larger photo albums, so it’s natural for Google to want to create a realistic 3D rendering of the world. That’s the aim of a new bit of boffinry from the Chocolate Factory called DeepStereo.…
Microsoft’s Bing, still lagging Google by a country mile even with Yahoo!, has unveiled some suspiciously Google-like updates.…
Phone makers Samsung and Oppo face legal action in China, after a consumer watchdog filed lawsuits over bloatware pre-loaded on the vendors’ handsets.…