Building the home of the future. Plus: GPUs get faster, but your eyes can't tell

GPUs keep getting faster, but your eyes can't tell Senate panel approves bill to continue NSA surveillance ITworld Today November 01, 2013 Share this email How Marshall Rose is building the home of the future If you are trying to have more of an autonomous home, take a look at what Marshall Rose, inventor of a series of protocols that form the backbone of much of today's Internet, is doing. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. GPUs keep getting faster, but your eyes can't tell 2. Senate panel approves bill to continue NSA surveillance 3. Google, Oracle, Red Hat join HealthCare.gov effort 4. New malware variant suggests cybercriminals targeting SAP users 5. How to send a POST request with Google Volley on Android 6. A brief meta-tour through Ubuntu Touch 1.0 7. The Truth About Privacy is more frightening than you can imagine 8. The iPad Air's amazing performance benchmarks 9. Weekly Xbox One/Playstation 4 news wrap-up for November 1st Webcast: Google Enterprise Facing your OS's end of life? Google can help. In April 2014, businesses around the world will stop receiving support and updates for their operating system or mail server. If your company is among them, there are steps you can take to minimize security risks while you formulate a lasting solution. Learn more! GPUs keep getting faster, but your eyes can't tell A faster video card may not mean much if your monitor can't take full advantage of it. READ MORE Senate panel approves bill to continue NSA surveillance A U.S. Senate committee has voted to approve a bill that would leave in place the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk telephone-records collection program, with some limits. READ MORE Google, Oracle, Red Hat join HealthCare.gov effort Employees of Google, Oracle and Red Hat have joined the U.S. government's effort to fix the ailing HeathCare.gov, officials said Thursday. READ MORE New malware variant suggests cybercriminals targeting SAP users A new variant of a Trojan program that targets online banking accounts also contains code to search if infected computers have SAP client applications installed, suggesting that attackers might target SAP systems in the future. READ MORE White Paper: Datawatch Foster Better Decisions with Big Data Visualization Read this paper to learn how strong visualization tools are providing better, simplified business intelligence from a variety of sources, whether real-time or industry-specific - to allow your organization to make better business decisions faster. Learn More How to send a POST request with Google Volley on Android Android development, like most development, has commonly performed operations that developers tend to re-write from scratch repeatedly. One of the most common is an asynchronous web request to get/post data to a service for your app. READ MORE A brief meta-tour through Ubuntu Touch 1.0 Ubuntu Touch was quietly released in early form earlier this month. What does Ubuntu Touch actually look like, and how does it run? READ MORE The Truth About Privacy is more frightening than you can imagine The guys behind the Truth book and other 'patriot' survival guides are not what they seem. They're not even Americans. But they're definitely scary. READ MORE The iPad Air's amazing performance benchmarks In today's Apple news roundup: The iPad Air scores high on benchmark tests. Plus: A review of Pages 5.0, and Apple has begun including its own built-in apps in App Store searches. READ MORE Weekly Xbox One/Playstation 4 news wrap-up for November 1st It's launch month! Let's catch up on the next-gen gaming console news from this week. 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