QNAP makes 3 slot quad-core NAS TS-332X available
QNAP informs Techzine about the introduction of the TS-332X, a NAS that supports three SATA M.2-SSDs of 6Gb/sec. The processor, a 1.7 GHz Alpine AL-324 quad-core Cotrex-A57 processor, is sourced from Amazon subsidiary Annapurna Labs.
The device has 2 GB or 4 GB DDR4 RAM, depending on which model is ...
Microsoft improves overlapped speech recognition with new microphone
At this week's Interspeech 2018 conference, Microsoft researchers will discuss the progress they have made in overlapped speech recognition. The researchers are also talking about a new circular microphone that will improve the technique.
Overlapped speech recognition is also called the "cocktail pa...
HubSpot expands Enterprise offerings with Sales Hub Enterprise and Service Hub Enterprise
HubSpot has expanded its Enterprise offering with two new products. It concerns the Sales Hub Enterprise and Service Hub Enterprise. The company has also announced updates to the Marketing Hub Enterprise.
HubSpot has merged the new products into the Enterprise Growth Suite. This suite is designed to...
IBM helps farmers with AI prototypes that measure soil quality
IBM AgroPad is a paper card that, in combination with an app, can measure soil quality thanks to machine vision and AI. The app shows the exact amount of chemicals in water and soil samples. Expensive lab tests with long waiting times are no longer necessary.
Farmers who want to know their soil qual...
Outlook brings simplified appearance and new features to public preview
Microsoft has given Outlook a new, simplified look. The new version is now available as a public preview. Members of a Targeted Release will be given the option to try out the new version as of next week. It is not yet known when the final version will be rolled out.
The new look also comes with som...
Google develops search engine Dataset Search for academics and journalists
Google released a new search engine today. It focuses on academics and journalists and is designed to help them find the data they need more easily. Dataset Search provides an easy way to access millions of datasets from thousands of sources on the Internet.
At the moment Dataset Search is still in...
Facebook builds its first Asian data center for 1 billion dollars
Facebook is investing no less than 1 billion dollars in the construction of its first data center in Asia. This should be in Singapore and the opening is planned for 2022. The facility opens in the west of the island, where Google has just invested $850 million in expanding its data centers.
This wi...
Significant fall in value of cryptographic currency due to failure of the Goldman Sachs crypto trading platform
Goldman Sachs worked on a trading platform for cryptographic currency. But now it has been decided not to do so. The result is a dive for the value of the most important virtual coins. The decline in value is very variable: the bitcoin lost 12 percent, while ethereum lost almost 20 percent.
Goldman ...
New Fortinet solution FortiNAC provides overview and grip on IoT devices
Fortinet has made the new FortniNAC solution available. It is a network access controller that combines network segmentation with automated countermeasures to secure IoT environments. The company believes that this is a desirable solution, as the growth of insecure IoT devices without a user interfa...
Originally Dutch business search engine Elasticsearch wants to make an IPO.
Recently there was a rumour that Elasticsearch BV had decided in the utmost secrecy to go on the stock exchange. Today this rumour is confirmed by the originally Dutch company. The IPO follows six years after the start of the company in Amsterdam.
Elasticsearch develops business search and analysis ...
Google wants to get rid of the URL completely
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the online addresses that are a bit like one of the most important ways of surfing the Internet, have an important problem. Because they have a complex structure, malicious people can easily exploit them. Google wants to do something about that.
Now it is easy for a...
Man remains the weakest link in any security system
People remain the weak link in any security system. A new investigation has shown that the vast majority of security incidents can be traced back to the personnel. In the case of a self-reported data breach, the chance is seven times greater that the leak is due to human error than that a hacker was...