This Week in Tech 402: Wagner II: Electric Boogaloo
Video surveillance, CISPA fascism, smart watches, lame recommendations, and more.
Technology
Hardware, Networking, Technology
IBM's x86 exit may shake up market and rivals
IBM’s x86 exit may shake up market and rivals IBM’s reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business
Networking, Technology
Meet the Web's Operating System: HTTP
The HTTP standard, the language of web servers, was born humbly in 1990 as the hypertext transfer protocol. HTTP was
Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows
Trojan horse malware destroys delivery files to hide its tactics
Trojan horse malware destroys delivery files to hide its tactics Microsoft has discovered an unusually stealthy Trojan capable of deleting
Hardware, Technology
History of the Modern Graphics Processor, Part 4
The Coming of General Purpose GPUs Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity
Hardware, Technology
History of the Modern Graphics Processor, Part 3
The Fall of 3Dfx and The Rise of Two Giants With the turn of the century the graphics industry bore
Apple, Hardware, Technology
Apple launches replacement program for select Apple TV products
An internal document allegedly sent to AppleCare employees, official retail stores and authorized resellers reveals a replacement program for third
Hardware, Technology
History of the Modern Graphics Processor, Part 2
3Dfx Voodoo: The Game-changer Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx’s Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA
Networking, Security
Fueled by super botnets, DDoS attacks grow meaner and ever-more powerful
Coordinated attacks used to knock websites offline grew meaner and more powerful in the past three months, with an eight-fold
Hardware, Technology
How today’s touchscreen tech put the world at our fingertips
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock The Past, Present, and Future of Touch From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history