The Google Fit SDK wants you to take it for a ride
Google has released the software development kit (SDK) for its Google Fit service.…
Google may hook Kubernetes deep into own cloud
‘Highly differentiated experience’ promised, details likely at November gabfest
Google’s Cloud Platform Live event in the USA next week may offer up some news on how The Chocolate Factory will allow developers to put Kubernetes to work in its own cloud.…
PEAK APPLE: iOS 8 is least popular Cupertino mobile OS in all of HUMAN HISTORY
‘Nerd release’ finally staggers past 50 per cent adoption
Half of all fanbois and gurlz have finally installed iOS 8 on their iThings, hammering home the point that Apple’s new mobile operating system is much less popular than previous versions.…
OpenSUSE tidies up disto model ahead of 13.4
Tumbleweed will be the face of rolling releases
OpenSUSE has rolled up its Factory and Tumbleweed into a single project that will carry the name Tumbleweed from November 4.…
Mozilla hopes to challenge Raspbian as RPi OS of choice
Project to port Firefox OS to Raspberry Pi is under way
The Mozilla Foundation staged a Mozilla Festival in the UK over the weekend, and one of the projects developers delivered was a port of Firefox OS working to the Raspberry Pi.…
UNCHAINING DEMONS which might DESTROY HUMANITY: Musk on AI
‘I invest only to monitor the threat’
Electro-car kingpin and spacecraft mogul Elon Musk has warned that meddling with Artificial Intelligence risks “summoning the demon” that could destroy humanity.…
Apple’s OS X Yosemite slurps UNSAVED docs into iCloud
Docs, email contacts… shhhlooop, up it goes
Apple’s OSX 10.10 – aka Yosemite – is silently uploading users’ unsaved documents and the email addresses of their contacts to Apple’s iCloud, according to security researcher Jeffrey Paul.…
Developers: Get down and dirty with IBM at Twickers
Scrum down at DeveloperConnect
Promo If you want an extra dose of fireworks this autumn, get yourself down to Twickenham Stadium on 6 November for IBM DeveloperConnect 2014.…
OpenStack upstart SwiftStack slurps up $16m from backers
The object of its object storage funding exercise
Interview OpenStack-using startup SwiftStack has got itself $16m in B-round funding, raising the total cash invested amount to $23.6m. Why should we care?…
GCHQ staff ‘would sooner walk’ than do anything ‘resembling mass surveillance’
House of Lords discovers Google Maps
QuoTW This was the week when GCHQ boss Sir Iain Lobban managed to exit stage left from the spook play without ever mentioning the Edward-Snowden-shaped-elephant in the room.…