Informatiker am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) haben mit Halide eine neue Programmiersprache entwickelt, die effizientere Bildverarbeitungs-Software in Aussicht stellt. Die Programme sollen damit nicht nur einfacheren, übersichtlicheren Code bekommen, sondern auch deutlich schneller werden.
Samsung hat sich im kalifornischen Patentprozess gegen Apple gleich zu Beginn Ärger mit dem Gericht eingebrockt. Die Samsung-Anwälte hatten öffentlich die Entscheidung kritisiert, den Prototyp eines Samsung-Handys den Geschworenen vorzuenthalten und Medien mit Links zu den Bildern versorgt.
Für Oracle zeichnet sich eine Niederlage im monatelangen Chip-Streit mit Hewlett-Packard ab. Ein US-Richter entschied, dass Oracle weiterhin Software für Intel-Prozessoren des Typs Itanium anbieten müsse. Oracle kündigte Berufung an.
Freie Softwareentwickler sind verärgert über einen zunehmend restriktiven Umgang Sozialer Netzwerke wie Facebook und Twitter mit den Softwareschnittstellen zu ihren Diensten.
Ein Dreivierteljahr nach dem Release nimmt die jüngste Android-Generation 4.x nun deutlich an Fahrt auf. Die Auswertung der letzten zwei Juliwochen hat ergeben, dass sich die Nutzung in den vergangenen zwei Monaten mehr als verdoppelt hat. Anfang Juni lief Ice Cream Sandwich auf 7,1 Prozent aller registrierten Geräte mit Googles Betriebssystem.
Der italienische Telekomkonzern Telecom Italia hat das erste Halbjahr 2012 wieder mit Gewinnen abgeschlossen. Die Gruppe beendete das erste Halbjahr mit einem Gewinn von 1,245 Mrd. Euro. Im Vergleichszeitraum 2011 hatte das Unternehmen noch Verluste von 2,042 Mrd. Euro gemeldet, was auf Entwertungen zurückzuführen war.
Ecuador will den unter Vergewaltigungsverdacht stehenden Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange vor einer Auslieferung nach Schweden bewahren. Man sei enttäuscht, dass Schweden das Angebot zurückgewiesen habe, Assange in der Botschaft Ecuadors in London zu befragen, sagte Außenminister Ricardo Patino am Mittwoch.
Am 2. August starten 285 Lernende bei Swisscom ihre Ausbildung. Damit bildet kein Unternehmen in der Schweiz mehr Lernende in ICT-Berufen aus, wie der Telekomriese in einer Aussendung betont. Erstmals beginnen Lernende mit der Grundbildung Fachmann Kundendialog in der Westschweiz und im nächsten Jahr im Tessin. Swisscom setzt zudem bei der Rekrutierung von Lernenden neu ausschliesslich auf Online-Bewerbung.
Die Mutter des Wikileaks-Gründers Julian Assange ist mit dem ecuadorianischen Präsidenten Rafael Correa zu einem Gespräch zusammengekommen. Christine Assange setzte sich bei dem Treffen für den Erfolg des Asylantrags ihres Sohnes in dem südamerikanischen Land ein.
Der Hacker Jonathan Brossard hat auf der Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas Software vorgestellt, mit deren Hilfe Schadcode in die Firmware der Bios-Chips von Computern eingeschleust werden kann. Kompromittierte PCs sind mit herkömmlichen Mitteln nicht mehr zu retten, die Malware bleibt auch nach gründlichsten Virenscans oder Festplattenwechseln aktiv, wie die Technology Review berichtet.
In April, 2012, graphic designer and photographer Emily Moser had no experience with 3-D modelling. By the end of July, she was holding a historically accurate 3-D recreation of the Harlem Line's Brewster train station that she'd made herself. This is a story about obsession, trains, and how today's tools are opening up new frontiers for makers.
As BlackBerry continues to try to reinvent its business model and operating system, CEO Thorsten Heins floats the possibility of licensing the OS. But will hardware vendors line up to deliver the BlackBerry experience?
For the first time in over a decade, the Pentagon's budget has to shrink, thanks to a deal to cut the deficit that Congress and President Obama struck last year. Yet a key Senate panel voted on Thursday to fund big-ticket hardware -- ships, cargo planes and drones among them -- that the U.S. military is trying to get rid of in the name of saving cash.
Learn all the exciting new discoveries that scientists are hoping NASA?s new Mars Rover, Curiosity, will make, during this live show from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration starting at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 Eastern.
In its quest to shine a light on dirty power, Greenpeace has flown a large blimp over Charlotte, North Carolina, admonishing Duke Energy -- one of the nation's largest energy company's -- for using coal-fired power plants.
If you think Microsoft's Surface Touch Cover is cool, then take a look at what Apple has in the works.
Until recently, a human rabies infection was considered inescapably fatal. But a teenage girl who defied this death sentence eight years ago has had doctors and scientists debating how she survived ever since. And now a surprising report from remote Amazonia is adding to the mystery.
Despite loads of action and some cool sci-fi eye candy, this rehash of the campy 1990 classic seems thoroughly unnecessary.
Once every four years, the vast majority of people realize track bicycles are something other than "those fixed-gear things hipsters ride.? The features that make these bikes so inefficient in all but the flattest, smoothest situations also make them so fast on the wooden track of the Olympic velodrome. Well, that and the riders.While the ...
Prepare your Wookiee impressions now: It looks like there could be a Chewbacca movie coming, and it's not being made by George Lucas.
That '60s slogan "Think Globally, Act Locally" has never been more timely. These days you can't throw a cat without hitting a community garden, pop-up shop, or other act of urban activism. But projects like rehabilitating parks and adding street furniture aren't as easy as strapping on overalls and knocking on a few doors.
Segways are lethal only if you're trying to kill your reputation. For daredevil office cruising that leaves your hands free to manage mail bins and toner cartridges, try the $1,795 Solowheel.
T-Mobile teams with Huawei to deliver two new smartphones that do nothing to advance the carrier's MyTouch product line. The upshot: You now have the opportunity to buy two handsets that are outdated despite being completely brand new.
BMW?s 2013 HP4 motorcycle can claim the title for most coveted bike so far this year.
Wired catches up with Olympic equestrian Steffen Peters to talk about his love of animals, how to spot a horse with Olympic aspirations and the game he's never won.
The band that entranced the indie music scene with its debut album in 2008 and followed that up with the award-winning in 2011 announces an ambitious remix contest that goes far beyond the usual "here are some tracks for you to mess around with, have fun" type of thing.
Medical evacuation crews are some of the gutsiest people around. But to avoid another Black Hawk Down scenario -- in which the rescuers also get trapped alongside the wounded -- the Army is thinking about replacing the human copter crews with robots.
Sony lost 24.6 billion yen (approximately $314 million) in three months, it said Thursday in an earnings report for the first quarter of its 2012 fiscal year. It also lowered its sales forecasts for a number of consumer electronics products, including PlayStation Vita.
The President of Finland visited Google's data center at edge of the Baltic Sea on Thursday, joining the web giant in announcing it will spend an additional 150 million euros to building a second computing facility in southern Finland as part of an effort to meet increased demand for its web services.
Forget that cheap crap you haul out once every summer. Elite badminton player use gear that rivals anything you'll find at Wimbledon.
Apple's component suppliers seem almost eager to stoke iPhone rumor fires, and all the hot, hot consumer anticipation surrounding them. On Thursday, Sharp's new president, Takashi Okuda, said that his company will begin shipping iPhone displays starting this month.
Sometimes the Pentagon acts like a lumbering bureaucrat, other times like an outraged schoolmarm. When it comes to online porn, it acts like both, as evidenced by a new directive to stop employees of the Missile Defense Agency from browsing porn sites. It is only the latest offensive in the military's open-ended war on wanking.
Scientists have blamed recurring cancers on nefarious stem cells that might remain dormant, evade treatments and reactivate to form new tumors months or years later. The idea has been controversial, but three papers now report evidence of them in a variety of tissue types.
For nearly a year put out a monthly issue of high-quality photojournalism paired with text and interactive features that was well received by photographers and thousands of readers. But after a host of technical glitches and lack of funding, the team called it quits last weekend.
Can a $25 pair of pink handcuffs save the American economy? How about a $4.99 pack of playing cards? Made Movement thinks so.
Video-chat startup Airtime it losing users despite a slick viral video and a star-studded launch.
What's crazier than an electrically fired, 5,600 mph bullet? An electrically fired, 5,600 mph bullet that's GPS-guided, too. The Navy wants one of those to use with its cutting-edge cannon ? a gizmo also known as the Electromagnetic Rail Gun.
An experiment aimed at bringing the Wolf Man back to life as a noir-inspired animated GIF has turned into a monstrous project for a group of artists. Get an exclusive first look at new images from Saline Project's stylish series.
Apple is building something new in its Maiden, North Carolina, data center, and thanks to our 1949 Piper PA-11 (Cub Special) iSpy Plane, we can give you an exclusive first look.
If Microsoft's new Outlook.com service won't read your email to target ads at you, how does the company plan to make money?