Intel is reportedly planning to unveil a new fiberoptic interconnect that could move data so fast, even most supercomputers would be hard-pressed to keep up. The new spec, labeled MXC, is a “next-generation optical connector” able to carry up to…
While wireless technologies are amazing, it still seems we’re stuck with plenty of cables around all the time, from charging cables to headphones and more. Most people don’t do much to organize them, or they go with the simplest route. Personally, I…
This post originally published as a chapter from the free Radar report, Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything. Introduction to Platforms A platform is a collection of sub-systems or components that must operate like one thing. A…
The importance of visualizing data is universally recognized. But, usually the data is passive input to some visualization tool and the users have to specify the precise graph they want to visualize. BeyondCore simplifies this process by automatically…
Google plans on automatically encrypting its users’ Cloud Storage data. “There is no setup or configuration required, no need to modify the way you access the service and no visible performance impact,” read a note on Google’s Cloud Platform…