When preparing to apply for an online MCS, students often ask the essential question – am I prepared for this degree program? In part three of this three part “Getting an MCS” series, we have asked ASU professor Andrea W. Richa to share some insights on the online MCS degree program. Professor Andrea W. Richa […]
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Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m Not a Programmer Anymore’
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator, doesn’t make speeches anymore. But, what he does do, and he did again at Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon France is have public conversations with his friend Dirk Hohndel, VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer. In this keynote discussion, Torvalds revealed that he doesn’t think he’s a programmer anymore. So what does…
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: ‘They’re Not Going Away.’
During his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, said Intel CPU’s security problems “are going to be with us for a very long time” and are “not going away.” He added: “They’re all CPU bugs, in some ways they’re all the same problem,” but each has to be solved in its own way. “MDS,…
Google’s Stadia Cloud Gaming Service Will Launch on November 19
Google’s Stadia game streaming service will launch on November 19th, the company’s Rick Osterloh announced today at the company’s fall hardware event. From a report: In a separate blog post published during the keynote, Google added that servers will open to the public at 12PM EST/9AM PST. Besides the US, Stadia will launch in Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,…
Both Apple and Amazon Are Quietly Building Networks That Know the Location of Everything
Wired reports on both Sidewalk, Amazon’s new low-bandwidth long-range wireless networking protocol, and Apple’s new position- and distance-measuring U1 chip (mentioned in a recent keynote). Apple’s U1 chip — which allows precise, indoor positional tracking via the latest iPhones and will power, at the very least, directional AirDrop file-sharing — popped up on screen but was never even mentioned. The interest-piquing…
Linux Foundation Exec Believes Edge Computing Will Be More Important Than Cloud Computing
An anonymous reader shares a report: Once upon a time, back when we all had mainframes and then servers in our offices, we had edge computing. Our compute power was literally down the hall. Then, along came the cloud, and all that changed. Computers were hundreds of miles but milliseconds away. Now, with the rise of IoT, 5G, and our never-satisfied…
Microsoft Demos Hologram ‘Holoportation’
Microsoft “continues to plug away at making holoportation possible,” reports ZDNet: In a new demonstration, officials showed off a scenario where a life-sized holographic representation of a person could be beamed into a scenario with real-time simultaneous language translation happening — a communication scenario on which Microsoft has been working for years. At Microsoft’s Inspire partner show (which is co-located with…