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6 job search hacks that will get you hired
The right cloud for the job: Multicloud database processing is here
The idea is pretty simple and actually pretty old: Use a distributed architecture on large databases to quickly return the data requested. This approach runs the database query across many servers at the same time, then combines the results as they return from hundreds, perhaps thousands of servers in the cluster.
Boost that battery! Tips and tricks for laptops
Whether it happens with that key memo left unfinished, the last scene of a movie unwatched, or an epic gaming battle interrupted, it's likely that at one time or another, you've been left with a dead notebook battery at the worst possible moment. What can you do about it?
"Notebooks are not as efficient as they could be," says Robert Meyers, data center product manager for the Energy Star Program at the Environmental Protection Agency, "and they waste a lot of energy."
5 big data projects that could change your life
Most over-hyped technology trends wear out their welcome pretty quickly, which should make skeptics among us wary about Big Data. However, while Big Data is being touted as the latest trend that will change the world, the skeptics aren't as, well, skeptical as they were about cloud and social.
That's probably because Big Data is generating real-world wins for the companies embracing it. Already, Big Data analytics is starting to fundamentally change such disparate disciplines as pharmaceutical research, sales and marketing, and product development.
Mercifully toothless Windows 8.1 Update 2 due next week
Everything is on course for an August Black Tuesday release of the Windows 8.1 patch formerly known as Windows 8.1 Update 2, and now apparently code named "August Update," according to unnamed sources cited by
Mercifully toothless Windows 8.1 Update 2 due next week
Everything is on course for an August Black Tuesday release of the Windows 8.1 patch formerly known as Windows 8.1 Update 2, and now apparently code named "August Update," according to unnamed sources cited by
Satya Nadella at six months: Grading Microsoft's new CEO
Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
Satya Nadella at six months: Grading Microsoft's new CEO
Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
5 ways to add machine learning to Java, JavaScript, and more
After spending decades in the shadows as a specialty discipline, machine learning is suddenly front and center as a busi
New JavaScript library adds facial detection, 3D projection to Web apps
The open source Tracking.js JavaScript library is bringing computer vision and augmented reality to Web development.
Build your own private cloud
The primary mission of computing has always been to automate business. The secondary mission has been to automate the automation, a quest that grows ever more urgent as data center technology achieves such towering complexity it threatens to collapse under its own weight.
Getting started with Ruby: A tour of the scripting language
In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don't need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++, and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do.
Of Perl, Python, and Ruby, only one was built from the ground up to combine scripting with object-oriented programming. If you don't know one of them, let's start with Ruby. (If you know Perl or Python, don't worry; that will make Ruby even easier to learn.)
10 technologies that will transform PCs in 2015 and beyond
10 technologies that will transform PCs in 2015 and beyond
Blame the iPad for the crash in tablet sales
Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly told the tech industry blog Re/code this week that tablet sales have "crashed"
Black Hat 2014: How to crack just about everything
