The Samsung Galaxy S7 bill of materials calculated at $255

The parts of the Galaxy S7 cost Samsung $255, according to the latest report of market analyst company IHS. This is $1 less than the bill-of-materials of the Galaxy S5…

Spongy polymer grows to fill gaps in the spine after surgery

Use of the polymer graft could provide a non-invasive and inexpensive method for filling gaps in the spine left after the removal of tumors (Credit: American Chemical Society). Removing spinal…

Is it time for virtual reality to influence the data centre?

The part virtual reality (VR) can play in the evolution of the data centre has been mooted as far back as 2013 – but now the future looks good so…

Dell SecureWorks Offers New Intrusion Detection Tools at RSA

At RSA, Dell’s SecureWorks launched two new offerings aimed at detecting intrusions. One is a hosted solution that offers new, managed end-point detection, and the other is a series of…

Google’s New Encrypted Data Storage System

After almost a week of Google’s announcement that it will start to encrypt by default its Cloud Storage application, it is now being implemented.  It initially encrypted the server-side of…

Fallout 4 Super Mutant Rap Video is Very Weird

One talented Fallout 4 fan creates an incredibly bizarre rap music video for the post-apocalyptic RPG featuring the Super Mutant companion character known as Strong. Fallout 4 modder and YouTuber…

Seagate Introduces 10 GBps NVMe SSD, Might Be Micron NAND Inside

Seagate announced a new NVMe PCIe SSD at the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference that can attain up to 10 GBps of throughput. Seagate is not releasing many details of…

A warning shot: Why cloud security remains more important than ever

With all the recent well-publicised hacking and malware attacks, not to mention numerous meteorological events that have affected companies around the globe over the last year, IT leaders are very…

Verizon Challenges Amazon With Verizon Cloud Storage and Compute

Verizon has finallymade public in the New York Interop Show the details of its new business cloud service, the Verizon Cloud. The company fearlessly announced last October 3 that the…

The Division Causes Controversy By Nerfing Phoenix Credit Drop Rates

While plenty of The Division players have yet to even experience the end game in Ubisoft’s latest, others have been knee deep in the post-story grind for a few days…