Monthly Archives: November 2018
TESLA CEO ELON MUSK ON THE APPLE CAR: ‘IT WILL EXPAND THE INDUSTRY’
The Tesla CEO doesn’t feel threatened by the forthcoming Apple Car, which he calls an “open secret.” It’d be normal for car company execs to feel a tad threatened by the much-rumored Apple Car, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not one of those people. In fact he sounds happy to see Apple entering the […]
WANT TO LIVE ON MARS WITH 1M OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS?
It won’t be easy or safe, but Elon Musk is developing tech to colonize Mars in 100 years You might think Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, might dream of putting an astronaut on Mars. But the high tech entrepreneur envisions the day when there is a working, thriving, self-sustaining civilization of a million people […]
TESLA TO BEGIN TAKING ORDERS FOR ITS SOLAR ROOF SHINGLES
A solar-shingle roof is expected to cost no more than a standard roof Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed his company will begin taking orders in April for its latest product: roof shingles that are tougher than standard roof coverings and can enable an energy-independent building. In October, Tesla unveiled four different solar roof tiles that the company plans to […]
THE 10 MOST POWERFUL COMPANIES IN ENTERPRISE NETWORKING
Here’s our ranking of the top 10 network-gear vendors that serve corporate needs There is no shortage of vendors competing for business at every part of the enterprise network – every vertical, every size business, from the edge to the core. None are created equal, but a few have separated themselves from the pack to […]
THE BEST FREE BI TOOLS, 2018
Business intelligence platforms can help enterprises analyze data from various sources to inform decision-making. The six free tools highlighted here are among the best and most popular today. Business intelligence (BI) software is designed to help enterprises discover and visualize their data to drive better business outcomes. These widely deployed applications come in various forms, including […]
WHAT IS VIRTUALIZATION?
The importance and applications of virtualization extend far beyond virtual machines No advance in information technology in the past six decades has offered a greater range of quantifiable benefits than has virtualization. Many IT professionals think of virtualization in terms of virtual machines (VM) and their associated hypervisors and operating-system implementations, but that only skims […]
APPLECARE+: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT APPLE’S EXTENDED WARRANTY PROGRAM
Your Apple gear wasn’t cheap. And if you drop your iPhone, your iPad stops turning on one day, or your Mac’s hard drive just ups and dies on you, getting it repaired probably won’t be cheap either. Apple includes a one-year limited warranty with all hardware so if there’s a manufacturing defect, you’ll be covered. […]
YOU’LL SOON BE ABLE TO BUY APPLE’S PRODUCTS ON AMAZON, BUT DON’T EXPECT ANY CRAZY LIGHTNING DEALS
Macs, iPhones, iPads, and everything else…except HomePod. If you’re planning on buying an Apple product or three this holiday season, you’ll soon be able to buy them from the most popular online retailer in the world. As first reported by CNET, Amazon and Apple have finally struck a deal to sell Macs, iPads, iPhones, and everything […]
C LANGUAGE UPDATE PUTS BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FIRST
A first working draft proposal for the next version of C clarifies and refines existing features, rather than adding new ones. A working draft of the standard for the next revision of the C programming language, referred to for now as “C2x,” is now available for review. Most of the changes thus far approved for C2x don’t […]
VISUAL STUDIO CODE’S PYTHON ADD-ON TRIES OUT DATA SCIENCE
Microsoft’s Python language extension for the Visual Studio Code editor has added beta data-science capabilities that support data exploration and incorporation of machine learning models. Developers can use the beta features to explore data similar to how they would use Jupyter Notebooks, but with a familiar editor and favorite settings. User can run Individual cells using the IPython kernel and visualize frames, […]