If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sincere in a recent post about gradually taking the media element out of “social media”, he’s striking a powerful blow for tech self-regulation, as well as preparing to pay a heavy price for
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Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one. They are a mathematical mystery, the secrets of which mathematicians have been trying to uncover ever since Euclid proved that
Recent revelations that millions of Intel’s chips carry a security flaw is putting a deeper strain on the company’s decades-long partnership with Microsoft. Dubbed Wintel, the two technology giants worked hand in hand for much
Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate
It was late November and former Intel engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors. Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher
Intel said on Wednesday that most of the processors running the world’s computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to attack. The largest chip maker is working with rivals and partners on a fix, but
AMD is the sad sack of semiconductor makers. A security hole in its biggest rival’s computer chips gives it a small opening to change its fortunes. The bad news for Intel was a report that a design flaw in its widely used computer chips
The music executives hobnobbing with Ed Sheeran and Selena Gomez at an industry party one recent November night knew the enemy was in their midst. Susan Wojcicki runs YouTube, the site that’s let millions of fans listen to their
When will cryptocurrencies live up to the second part of their name? Now that bitcoin is a mainstream asset, with futures contracts traded at the world’s largest exchange, becoming actual money should be the logical next step. But if
Bitcoin has wowed markets this year with breakneck gains as investors flocked to an asset that exists only in cyberspace. But the laborious creation of each digital bitcoin by private computer networks has real-world consequences