Linksys WRT1900AC: The best open router yet
Not long after purchasing Linksys from Cisco, Belkin celebrated by releasing a new wireless router designed to capitalize on the success of the best-selling Linksys WRT54G line, famed for its low price...
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Beyond Firefox: 10 Mozilla projects that are fueling the open Web
Ten Mozilla projects fueling the open Web Firefox reinvented the old-school Netscape browser, marking a defining moment for Mozilla as an advocate for open Web technologies. Today, market share for...
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12 of the biggest, baddest, boldest software backdoors of all time
The boldest software backdoors of all time "Image by Seth Anderson via FlickrIt’s always tough to ensure the software you’re using is secure, but it’s doubly difficult if the creators of the software...
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10 hot programming languages that are on the rise
Beyond the usual suspects: 10 programming languages on the riseImage by iStockphotoThe sheer number and diversity of programming languages in use today is immense. For better or worse, however, most...
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7 far-out technologies that are closer than you think
7 far-out technologies closer than you think "Image by Mark StahlIf it’s cliché to say that yesterday’s science fiction is today’s off-the-shelf tech, it’s only because it’s come true time and...
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10 Python tools too good to overlook
Hidden gems: 10 Python tools too good to overlookWant a good reason for Python's smashing success as a language? Look no further than its massive collection of first- and third-party libraries. With so...
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8 cutting-edge technologies aimed at eliminating passwords
8 cutting-edge technologies aimed at eliminating passwordsImage by iStockphotoIn the beginning was the password, and we lived with it as best we could. Now, the rise of cyber crime and the...
View ArticleGot an hour? You can learn to code
For you've mused about dipping your toe into programming but can't find the time, Code.org is about to give you one fewer excuse to procrastinate.From Dec. 8-14, 2014, Code.org is pushing to have Hour...
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6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet
Internet protocols on the brinkImage by Kheng ho TohThe biggest threat to the Internet is the fact that it was never really designed. Instead, it evolved in fits and starts, thanks to various protocols...
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11 open source tools to make the most of machine learning
11 open source tools for making the most of machine learning Spam filtering, face recognition, recommendation engines -- when you have a large data set on which you’d like to perform predictive...
View ArticleReview: BitTorrent delivers cloud-free 'Dropbox for business'
BitTorrent originated as a file sharing and distributed download technology, powering downloads of content both legitimate (such as Linux ISOs) and not (Taylor Swift albums). With BitTorrent Sync, the...
View ArticleCoreOS's Tectonic shift: Enterprise-grade container management
CoreOS, maker of the container-oriented Linux distribution of the same name, is now offering a commercial version of its product that's built for enterprises and includes tools for managing containers...
View ArticleLanguage forks bestow new power on programming
Computer languages are like their real-life counterparts: They constantly evolve. But unique to the evolution of programming languages is the ability to expressly fork them -- to publicly announce a...
View ArticleDocker 1.6 caters to dev and ops alike with new features
Ship early and often: Docker has adopted the mantra of software developers, but it isn't shipping only a new version of the Docker client a mere two months after the last one. Instead, it's offering a...
View ArticleJava at 20: JVM, Java's other big legacy
Think of Java, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, and your first thoughts most likely go to the language itself. But underneath the language is a piece of technology that has a legacy at...
View ArticleReview: VirtualBox 5.0 vs. VMware Workstation 11
Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation have been duking it out for several years now. VirtualBox occupies the “free and open source” corner of the ring, while VMware Workstation is a proprietary...
View ArticleReview: VirtualBox 5.0 vs. VMware Workstation 11
Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation have been duking it out for several years now. VirtualBox occupies the “free and open source” corner of the ring, while VMware Workstation is a proprietary...
View ArticleReview: 7 data recovery tools for every data disaster
Storage media is more reliable than it’s ever been. But while drive failures are fewer and further between, technology improvements do nothing to protect you from the No. 1 cause of data loss: human...
View ArticleReview: 8 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android
I hate passwords. I hate coming up with them. I hate remembering them. I hate mistyping them four times in a row. And I hate getting locked out of whatever I'm trying to log into in the process.Keeper...
View Article10 hard-core coding tips for faster Python
By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries and the breadth of industry support for Python compensate...
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