Stories by Lucas Mearian

3D-printable gun maker ordered to take down blueprints

U.S. Department of Defense Trade Controls has apparently ordered Defense Distributed to removed the blueprints for a 3D printable gun from its website.

Western Digital and SanDisk deliver their first hybrid drive

Western Digital has unveiled more information on its first hybrid solid-state drive, revealing that it worked with SanDisk to create the 500GB drive.

EMC lays off more than 1000 as restructuring continues

As part of its ongoing restructuring, EMC today announced its latest round of layoffs, which are expected to include 1004 positions.

Seagate unleashes first consumer SSD; enterprise version gets blazing fast 12Gbps SAS connectivity

Seagate Technology today announced its new portfolio of flash-memory devices, taking the wraps off its first consumer SSD and its next generation of enterprise models.

HIPAA rules, outdated tech cost U.S. hospitals $8.3B a year

HIPAA, along with outmoded communications technology, reduces the time available for patient care, according to a new survey of healthcare professionals

It works! First 3D-printed gun test fired

The company producing a 3D-printable gun today test fired it successfully, demonstrating the viability of the technology that would allow anyone with a printer and special resin toner to make their own weapons.

Harvard aims to help developers make cheaper solar panels

Hoping to usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard's Clean Energy Project in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells.

Here's why new car tech is four years out of date

You'd expect a $35,000 car to have technology at least as good as a $200 smartphone, but it often doesn't. Although the auto industry has been slow to keep up with tech trends, that may soon change.

BYOD, or else! Companies will soon require workers use their own smartphone

A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.

Action! Big Blue enters film biz with atomic movie

IBM enters Guinness Book with world's smallest stop-motion movie made with atoms.

Samsung builds chips to supercharge your smartphone

Samsung began production of the industry's first ultra-high-speed, 4Gbit, LPDDR3 mobile memory, which it says has performance levels comparable to the standard DRAM used in personal computers.

BYOD worries in mind, Novell and NTP bust out secure mobile file sharing

Novell and NTP today announced their own versions of mobile file-sharing applications, both of which take advantage of a corporation's existing infrastructure to offer access to data behind the firewall.

Climate change pushes some companies to go green

Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.

Smart gun company aims to begin production soon

Smart gun company SGTi is ready to begin production of a new prototype technology that would use a fingerprint scanner to enable a weapon to fire. But like similar ventures, the company is struggling for financial backing.

How big data will save your life

Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, has been more a frustrated data entry clerk in recent years than a physician, a frustration shared by thousands of his colleagues.