Earlier in the week, Sony Pictures experienced one of the biggest corporate hacks ever. Over 100 TB of data was stolen from their servers and employees were all sent home until further notice. This picture below showed on all Sony Pictures’ employees’ computers the day the breach was discovered. A group called Guardians of Peace, […]
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Microsoft was in a lot of headlines this week for various things. The first thing was part of a rough start to their week with a critical bug in almost all Windows variants being released and patched. Microsoft’s website explains, “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Secure Channel(Schannel) security package due to the improper […]
The release of every major iOS version starts a countdown for a special part of the community. Apple leaves their operating system for iPhones and iPads locked down with no room for customization which works is great for some people: it keeps the system safe and stable. For other people who want the customization the […]
Disney’s new film based on an obscure Marvel story, Big Hero 6, is a huge leap forward in animated technology. The film is set in the city of “San Fransokyo”, a combination of two of the world’s biggest tech hubs. Disney uses a massive amount of tools to render the effects in these cities. There […]
Google announced the new Nexus device line on Wednesday, and with that came the announcement of the next major Android operating system release. Android 5.0, named Lollipop, brings some exciting new changes to the platform. The first major change is a new design scheme. Material design brings flat, bold, contemporary colors, responsive interaction, meaningful transitions […]
Nvidia introduced the new GTX 980 graphics cards yesterday. The 980 is the top of their next 9xx line of cards and uses their new Maxwell 2 architecture. The cards only give a 10% performance boost over the previous generation’s top card, the 780 Ti, but the real difference is the power savings. The 780 […]
September 9, 2014 Developers swarmed into the Flint Center in Cupertino, California for Apple’s new product keynote. The keynotes are not usually held in the Flint Center, but it was only fitting that exactly 30 years after the announcement of the original Macintosh, Apple returns to make one of their biggest product announcements in recent […]
Yesterday, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk “that Tesla would be joining with Panasonic to build a 10 million-square-foot battery factory outside of Reno, Nevada.” The state agreed to a deal with Tesla giving the company a sales tax abatement and other breaks totaling $1.2 billion in tax breaks over 20 […]
Earlier this week, Instagram released a new iOS app, Hyperlapse, that takes the concept of time-lapse photography and expands it into video form. Instead of photography where it is much easier to combine the frames of many still images, time-lapse videos require much more planning and editing. Time-lapse videos must be smooth, so the developers […]
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