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Microsoft has announced it will invest $5 billion in research, products and services for the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four years. The investment will be made into IoT operating systems, cloud services for managing and controlling those operating systems, analysis tools to make use of the data from IoT, and business applications. In more practical terms, this means making Windows 10 more IoT aware, and developing Azure further.   The announcement of the investment follows a few days after Microsoft announced it was reorganizing internally, splitting the Windows and Devices Group and reshuffling elsewhere to: "focus on the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge ," according to CEO Satya Nadella. Making Windows 10 more IoT aware is already underway, with Windows 10 IoT Core and Enterprise already available, and work already announced on making it easier to integrate Windows 10 IoT and Azure IoT. Azure IoT is also getting new services and options...

Here is the son of an ex government employee from Shalimar Bagh of Delhi, who currently owns a house in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, one of the tallest building in the world. However, this is not one of the magnificent stories of a middle-class man becoming very successful. It’s quite something else on the whole. Amit Bhardwaj, a former software developer with Infosys and stock broker, is suspected to have fled to Dubai after conning an estimated amount of Rs 2,000 crore through a Ponzi scheme based on bitcoins, the mostly unregulated digital ‘cryptocurrency’ that has been became popular with its sharp spike in value. Bhardwaj, whose businesses are reported to have a turnover of millions, now faces fraud cases in a number of states, with investigative agencies struggling to get him back to the country. The ‘scam’ As of April 1’s evening, one bitcoin was valued at just over Rs 4.26 lakh. But in 2017, the value exceeded Rs 10 lakh. Under Bhardwaj’s scheme, an investor purchasing o...

If there's one downside to powerful computers, it's that they're too damn big.  Luckily, that's about to change. At least, if IBM has anything to say about it.  March 19 is the first day of  IBM Think 2018 , the company's flagship conference, where the company will unveil what it claims is the world's smallest computer. They're not kidding: It's literally smaller than a grain of salt.  But don't let the size fool you: This sucker has the computing power of the x86 chip from 1990. Okay, so that's not great compared to what we have today, but cut it some slack — you need a microscope to see it.  The computer will cost less than ten cents to manufacture, and will also pack "several hundred thousand transistors," according to the company. These will allow it to "monitor, analyze, communicate, and even act on data."  Left: 64 motherboards with two tiny computers in the top-left corner. Right: The tiny computer, mounte...