Cabinet wants to add tens of thousands of 5G masts to the streetscape
The government wants tens of thousands of 5G transmitter masts in the streets of the Netherlands by 2022. This is evidenced by a preliminary bill from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, writes the AD. According to the bill, municipalities will be obliged to participate in the construction... Read more
Pivotal puts high on Kubernetes with new version of Application Service
Pivotal Software has launched a new alpha version of its Application Service, which allows the company to focus higher on Kubernetes. Application Service (PAS) is a platform for the development of software applications, based on the open source Cloud Foundry project.
Pivotal Software's service aims ... Read more
“Most IT managers want to get rid of password authentication.
A study by MobileIron, the results of which are shared with Techzine, shows that eight out of ten IT managers prefer mobile devices as their main means of authentication. Six out of ten employees also experience annoyance and loss of time due to the use of passwords.
The study, conducted in collabo... Read more
Dynabook launches light and robust laptop Portege A30-E
Dynabook, until recently known as Toshiba Client Solutions, further expands its portfolio with a new laptop in the Portégé range. The light and robust A30-E targets the business user.
The laptop has a thin form factor and, depending on the model, weighs only 1.2 kilograms. Dynabook emphasizes ... Read more
Adult DevOps processes greatly increase the chances of early detection errors
Security teams in organizations with mature DevOps processes are three times more likely to find errors before the code is merged. This is evident from the third edition of the annual GitLab Survey among more than 4,000 respondents.
A mature DevOps process also appears to have a positive influence o... Read more
European GPS system Galileo still offline
According to CloudPro, Galileo, the EU's GPS system and the European Space Agency (ESA), has not been online with any satellite since Friday. It is not yet clear exactly what the cause of the failure is, except that it is said to be an incident related to the infrastructure on the ground, according ... Read more
“Prices of low code platforms are far from transparent.
Forrester reports that no low code software supplier gets a top rating for their pricing models in the Forrester Wave of Q1 in 2019. Software prices are often incomplete or opaque, making it difficult for companies to estimate how much low code software will cost to use.
According to Forrester, 64 ... Read more
Joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture works with Adobe
Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, has started a partnership with Adobe. As part of the collaboration, an 'Adobe practice' will be set up, which will connect the Adobe Experience Cloud with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure.
Adobe states that the Accenture Microsoft Business Gr... Read more
Google’s new technology accelerates training AI models
Data Echoing, a new technique from Google, would dramatically accelerate the training of AI models in the early stages of the training process, reports VentureBeat. That's what scientists at Google Brain, Google's AI research department, report in a recent paper.
AI accelerators such as Intel's Nerv... Read more
Vulnerability allows hackers to exploit iOS technology to log into apps
Trend Micro security researchers have found that hackers can use the iOS URL Scheme to launch attacks on certain apps. Criminals may also steal sensitive user information from apps.
The iOS URL Scheme was designed by Apple itself as a compensating workaround for its mobile sandbox technology. It is ... Read more