Data Center

Matchbox computers: Small is beautiful (and powerful)

If you like to build your own PC or just want something extremely portable, these tiny devices can be very useful.

Electrical engineering employment trending down

Hiring shows improvement in Q2, but the labor pool is flat

In Kenya, Bitcoin linked to popular mobile payment system

Using the Bitcoin system will allow for cheaper international remittances in Kenya

Yahoo says release of secret FISA court order will prove it resisted directives

Yahoo has asked the FISA court to release its order and other documents related to a 2008 decision

The NSA contributed code to Android? Ewwwwww.

Move over, Linpack: Supercomputers get new performance test

The new test should be a better measure of performance but could lead to disagreement over who has the world's fastest system

A nerd walks into a joke …

A nerd walks into a joke …

There's a difference between "nerd jokes" and "good nerd jokes."

Hesse remains CEO as Sprint, Softbank close $21.6B merger

The third-largest US mobile carrier will be called Sprint Corporation

Google researcher’s outing of Windows vulnerability may have led to cyber forays