The Titanium Utility Ring makes your fingers extra-useful

While wearing jewelry is a great way of expressing your individuality, when it comes to things like rings, some men can get a little ... uncomfortable. Today you’re wearing a ring, tomorrow it’s high heels, right? Well, perhaps those guys would feel better about donning the rough n’ ready Titanium Utility Ring.

NFC Ring lets you unlock your door by giving it the finger

NFC Ring lets you unlock your door by giving it the finger

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a technology that's just oozing with potential. Though the mainstream adoption of near-field communication hasn't exactly gone as planned, that doesn't mean that NFC isn't still a fertile ground for great products. One upcoming product, the NFC Ring, is an example of the kinds of imaginative projects that could become more widespread a few years down the road.

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world's largest tunnel boring machine

the world’s largest TBM and will spend the next 14 months boring a 1.7 mile (2.7 km) tunnel under the city as part of a US$1.2 billion project to replace a viaduct damaged in a 2001 earthquake.

Microsoft now has one million servers – less than Google

At Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer gave us a very interesting tidbit about the scale of Microsoft’s server operations. “We have something over a million servers in our datacenter infrastructure.” Furthermore, Ballmer even went on to say that “Google is bigger” and “Amazon is a little bit smaller.” It is extremely rare to hear such direct figures; in almost two decades, Google and Amazon have never even put a rough figure on their server count — and now Ballmer is on stage, giving up their secrets.

Prior to Ballmer’s keynote speech, the best guesstimate had put Google’s server count at around 900,000 in 2010; so, hearing confirmation that it’s now over one million isn’t a big surprise. We’ve never had any data from Amazon, other than abstract figures, such as the number of objects stored in its cloud. Given the scale of Amazon Web Services (AWS), though, which is by far and away the largest public cloud, close to one million servers is a reasonable figure. What Microsoft is doing with one million servers, though, is anyone’s guess. Azure is no where near the size of AWS, and Bing and Outlook.com are much smaller than Google Search and Gmail. Microsoft has hosted applications such as Office 365 and the servers that power Xbox Live, but still, a million is a stretch.

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Ten great new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V highlights

Microsoft has traditionally put out point releases to its server operating systems about every two years; Windows Server 2012 R2 will ostensibly show up just over a year after the initial release. Logic would suggest that such a short release cycle would contain little in the way of new capabilities, but in this case, logic has been defied, as the R2 release delivers a significant number of both new and improved features. Hyper-V is just one of the areas with rich improvements. We hit on 10 of the best new features in this slideshow