Micron has built the world’s smallest 3-bits per cell NAND chip, targeting USB stick memory and the like, while Facebook’s open source hardware guru has indicated such chips could be used in its cloud’s data centres providing ultra-cheap flash storage.…
Heroku has admitted that apps running on its Bamboo tech stack have been exposed to shoddy performance for the past three years.…
Four days have passed since a “procedural operations error” downed Azure SQL Reporting in Microsoft’s East US data center, and Redmond is still trying to restore customer data.…
Amazon’s Redshift cloudy data warehousing service is now available for general consumption after a trial among blessed customers.…
Opera has bought one-time competitor Skyfire, for $50m down with another $100m in performance-related bonus on the table. The idea is to get into cell-operator racks with a view to making mobile pay.…
Live today According to readers of The Register, Private Cloud is low-moving towards being a central plank of IT with more than 30% of them estimating their IT will be based on such a dynamic infrastructure within the next three years. This isn’t a project that can be done at server level in isolation of course. Rather, it’s a project that needs everyone, and almost everything, singing in harmony.…
This Smart Trash Can, developed by Minoru Kurata, an engineer at a Japanese auto maker, won an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival.
“When you toss trash at it, a sensor detects the position of the tr…
Professor Takashi Kawai’s lab at Waseda University’s School of Fundamental Science and Engineering is conducting research on a cross-modal perception technology employing multi-sensory integration in which particip…
AIST has developed a light-controlling sheet that can switch between mirror and transparent states. Using this sheet on window glass saves energy by effectively shutting out sunlight, greatly reducing the load on a…
This e-paper is currently under development by Ricoh.
It has a unique structure, with layers of a new electrochromic material that turn magenta, yellow, and cyan from their transparent state. In this way, Ricoh’s …
