Innovation

UK Ranks Third In 2013 Web Index, Despite Surveillance Concerns

Sir Tim Berners-Lee says world governments are making slow progress in their adoption of the Web, but GCHQ spying lets…

11 years ago

eBay’s Data Centre Innovation Won’t Stop With Fuel Cells

Fuel cells and recovered energy are nothing. eBay's Dean Nelson has more ideas up his sleeve

11 years ago

Green500 Supercomputer List Reveals Intel, Nvidia Surprise

Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are used in the world's top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers

11 years ago

Apple’s Futuristic Cupertino HQ Receives City Approval

Apple can finally start building its 'spaceship' headquarters after Cupertino council gives approval

11 years ago

Green Grid Takes Data Centre Efficiency Fight To Government

Governments need to handle data centres with care, The Green Grid and techUK argue

11 years ago

Google Offers More Control With Glass Development Kit

Google Glass developers will get more control of their designs with the new Glass Development Kit (GDK)

11 years ago

Google And Facebook: Green Goals Clash With Libertarian Leanings

The Internet giants may be cleaning up their energy act, but Peter Judge asks how deep is their care for…

11 years ago

Raspberry Pi Sales Hit Two Million

Raspberry Pi Foundation says popularity of the device comes as “a bit of a shock”

11 years ago

Canadian Scientists Claim A Major Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

A team of researchers has managed to keep quantum memory ‘coherent’ for 39 minutes at room temperature

11 years ago

Google And Friends Invest £250 Million In Solar Projects

Finance firm KKR and Google buy six solar plants of Sharp's Recurrent division

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Renewable Energy

Solar, wind and hydro-electric are just some of the ways to power data centres and phones

11 years ago

Google Offers Online Help For Philippines Typhoon Victims

Google launches online services and tools to help victims of the devastating Typhoon Yolanda

11 years ago

Microsoft Proposes Fuel Cells Inside Data Centre Racks

Making racks that power themselves could cut data centre energy needs, says Microsoft

11 years ago

Green Taxes Need To Catch Up With Data Centres

Governents want to use green taxes to regulate emissions - but Peter Judge thinks they don't understand the special role…

11 years ago

AMD Bets On APU Servers, Rolls Out The Developer Tools

"If you build it, they will come," goes the thinking at AMD

11 years ago

Open Compute Project Tests Three Open Switch Designs

In just six months, Broadcom, Intel and Mellanox have all submitted independent open switch proposals

11 years ago

Vodafone Foundation Deploys Pop-Up Networks In The Philippines

Two mobile networks in the Palo region help victims of Typhoon Haiyan

11 years ago

Survey: Public Sceptical Of Wearable Tech

In a Harris survey, Americans were split on whether wearable technology could be stylish, and showed little interest in head-mounted…

11 years ago

Intel Wants A Leadership Role In The Internet Of Things

Chip manufacturer will provide end-to-end services for IoT including security and analytics

11 years ago

Intel Creates New Internet Of Things Business Unit

Intel is creating a new business unit specifically aimed at Internet of Things and reporting directly to CEO Brian Krzanich

11 years ago

TechWeek Research: Security On A Budget

Readers haven't got the money to close every security gap - but prioritisation is keeping most of the bad guys…

11 years ago

Does HPC Need A Different Shade Of Green?

Is high-performance computing (HPC) a special case, or does it have the same efficiency needs as the rest of IT,…

11 years ago

Research Suggests A Conspiracy Of Miners Could Destroy Bitcoin

A team from the Cornell University proposes changes to the Bitcoin protocol to make it safer

11 years ago

Liquid Cooling Cuts Costs, Heats The Building At Innovation Centre

Iceotope has prepared the facility for the "worst winter in decades"

11 years ago

Microsoft Previews Offline Data Transfer For Windows Azure

Following on the heels of Google and Amazon, Microsoft will let users ship hard disks directly for import of large…

11 years ago

Rackspace Soups Up Servers And Cuts Prices

Rackspace goes on the offensive with super-powered servers with a load of flash to boot

11 years ago

Microsoft Backs Texas Wind Power Project

The software maker has signed a 20-year renewable energy purchasing agreement with a new Texas wind farm - which it…

11 years ago

Western Digital Inflates 3.5in HDD Storage To 6TB Using Helium

Helium cuts turbulence, boosts drive capacity to 6TB, and opens the way to liquid cooling

11 years ago

Oracle, Google, Red Hat Engineers Help Fix Crashing Obamacare Site

Government and private sector personnel have been called in to help fix Healthcare.gov, the crash-prone web portal created under the…

11 years ago

Does The Data Show We Need Green Data Centres?

An efficient data centre is better than an inefficient one, regardless of how you interpret the latest climate data, says…

11 years ago