As Higher Ed IT adopts new technologies, it’s becoming more and more important to stay current with tech news. New technological advancements are sure to affect your work at an institutional-level. We’re constantly aggregating new and exciting articles from the best sources so that you can stay informed and ahead in the field.
China’s $30 billion memory chip plant: Boom and bust?
The global over supply of NAND flash and DRAM looks to get worse for vendors: Tsinghua Unigroup plans a $30B chip plant. That's about 6x the cost of most new fabs today. That's good news for consumers, but can China's economy support it?
Windows 10’s Edge must stop stealing the browser default, says Vivaldi CEO
Vivaldi's Jon von Tetzchner has called on Microsoft to stop trying to foist Edge on Windows 10 users.
Made in China or the USA? It won’t matter: These jobs are going to robots
In the near future, where goods are made will have no real bearing on where the jobs are.
Kaspersky Lab appoints new Brazil director
Roberto Rebouças will lead B2B and B2C sales, marketing and business development in the Latin country.
This brain-implanted hardware could be the next step in restoring lost sight
Second Sight's human-implantable devices allow patients with vision loss to supplement their own sight with images generated by an electrode array implanted into their brain.
All Big Data clouds are not alike
CenturyLink's recent announcement of a new Big Data cloud service built around Cloudera shows that there is plenty of choice between Hadoop cloud services that go way beyond brand. It's another sign that enterprises are expecting cloud providers to offer the same diverse menu of options that they expect of strategic IT technology providers.
The latest in quantum computing: 10ft tall, 2,000 qubits, $15m price tag
D-Wave's new and improved quantum computer is dubbed the 2000Q, representing the number of qubits in its quantum processor.
AlphaBay Dark Web marketplace hacked, private messages leaked
Over 200,000 messages were compromised due to a security flaw.
Zero Days, film review: Stuxnet, secrecy and the new era of cyber war
Alex Gibney's documentary tells the story of the malware that was designed to take out Iran's nuclear capability, and advocates the need for open debate about the new breed of cyber weapons.
Brisbane Lord Mayor blasts TechnologyOne for AU$60m contract blowout
The city's mayor has called for the renegotiation of council's contract with TechnologyOne after he learned the project was experiencing lengthy delays and a potential cost overrun of up to AU$60 million.