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Close shaves between aircraft and drones are on the upswing

  Want a 100TB disk drive? You'll have to wait 'til 2025 | Review: Spark lights a fire under big-data processing

 
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Close shaves between aircraft and drones are on the upswing
Near misses between drones and aircraft are on the increase, with pilots of airplanes sometimes having to take evasive action, according to data released by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to some news outlets. Pilots and controllers have reported to the agency about 150 incidents this year of drones flying close to aircraft or airports, with a surge in such incidents in recent months, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The disclosure by the FAA comes at a time when it is under pressure to allow drones, known in FAA jargon as unmanned aircraft systems, to be used for commercial purposes. Amazon.com, for example, has said it is testing the use of drones for package deliveries.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 


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An Insightful Approach to Optimize Mainframe MLC Spend
This paper, "An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs," discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. Learn More

Want a 100TB disk drive? You'll have to wait 'til 2025
The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association has released a roadmap showing the industry could be producing 100TB hard drives by 2025. Read More
 

Review: Spark lights a fire under big-data processing
  Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley's AMPLab as a way to perform in-memory analytics on large data sets. At that time, Hadoop MapReduce was focused on large-scale data pipelines that were not iterative in nature. Building analytic models on MapReduce in 2009 was a very slow process, so AMPLab designed Spark to help developers perform interactive analysis of large data sets and to run iterative workloads, such as machine-learning algorithms, that repeatedly process the same data sets in RAM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
 

Samsung's mobile CEO to stay despite business challenges
  The head of the mobile business at Samsung Electronics will continue in his job, as the South Korean company has decided to continue with a three CEO structure adopted last year. Samsung was considering moving out J.K. Shin, the current co-CEO who heads its underperforming mobile division, in an annual reshuffle, according to a news report earlier this month. Boo-keun Yoon, a co-CEO who looks after Samsung's consumer electronics business, was being considered to take additional charge of the mobile business, and was expected to usher in quicker responses to competition in the smartphone business and a focus on the Internet connected home market, according to the report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges
The opportunity to save money, power and space is driving a multi-campus infrastructure modernization project within North Carolina Community Colleges (NCCC), a network of 58 institutions serving more than 800,000 students. So far 14 colleges throughout the state have upgraded to new servers that are more energy efficient, use less space and deliver higher performance than the systems they're replacing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
 

PC stagnation means zero-sum game for OEMs, OS makers
  IDC this week said that while the PC industry would end the year better off than it had expected, the foreseeable future holds no hope for a return of growth. Read More
 


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Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs
This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More

Stratasys now sells professional-grade 3D printers on Amazon
Industrial 3D printer maker Stratasys has announced it's selling a professional grade printer on Amazon for the first time.The machine, the Mojo 3D Printer, will retail for $6,000.While that may seem like a high price for a printer that can fit on your desktop, companies interested in rapid prototyping require high precision parts, which Stratasys claims the Mojo can produce.The Mojo has a resolution of .007-in., or .178 millimeters. Resolution refers to the thickness of each layer of material laid down as an object is being built. Stratasys The Stratasys Mojo 3D printer can use up to nine separate colors to print objects.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

NASA creates first 3D printed object in space
Taking the first step in what NASA hopes will become a key part of future long-term space journeys, engineers have created the first 3D printed object in space.Using a 3D printer that was installed on the International Space Station on Nov. 17, NASA built a faceplate for the printer itself.Creating the faceplate, which was made of plastic, gives engineers hope that 3D printers can one day be used to build everything from spare parts to tools and even food onboard the space station, as well as on deep space flights to asteroids and Mars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

Here's why hydrogen-fueled cars aren't little Hindenburgs
  Hydrogen gas is 16 times lighter than air, ignites with just a tenth the energy required to combust a gasoline-air mixture and is stored in fuel tanks pressurized up to 10,000 psi. But hydrogen-fueled cars are unlikely to go up like the ill-fated airship. Read More
 

Amazon's Fire sale: Phone is now just $199 unlocked
Amazon has cut the price for its unlocked Fire smartphone by 69% just four months after the phone first went on sale. The company also just deleted thousands of negative online customer reviews of the smartphone on its website. The latest discount first appeared on Amazon.com on Tuesday, dropping the unlocked 32GB price from its original $649 to $199; the price still includes one year of Prime service, worth $99, and is good through Cyber Monday (Dec. 1). In addition to the price cut, Amazon deleted thousands of customer reviews of the product, leaving up only reviews posted since the price cut went into effect.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

Fastest LTE speed -- 450Mbps -- will be out of reach for most users
LTE's theoretical maximum download speed will increase to 450 Mbps next year -- but the upgrade will be out of reach for most users, as many mobile operators simply don't have enough radio spectrum. The broadband speed users get depends on a myriad of different factors, but in the network it all starts with the amount of spectrum their operator uses. Future increases will be fueled by a technology called carrier aggregation, which lets operators treat up to three radio channels in different frequency bands as if they were one. This month, chip maker Qualcomm and network equipment manufacturer Ericsson have been doing their best to let the world know speeds at up to 450Mbps will be possible next year, with product launches, interoperability tests and a demo with Australian network operator Telstra.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

 

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