How to upgrade your laptop hard disk to an SSD Solid-state drives (SSDs) have dropped in price to the point where it’s affordable to replace your laptop’s hard disk with one of roughly equal capacity. It’s possible to buy a 256GB SSD for around £150, but if you think a 128GB SSD will suffice for your storage needs, you can pay as little as £80. It’s true that this is still more expensive than a hard disk per gigabyte, but there are several benefits of upgrading to an SSD including speed, reliability and battery life....

Senators attempt compromise cybersecurity bill The chances of Congress passing a cybersecurity bill before the presidential campaign drowns everything else out are dimming, but a couple of senators are giving it a try anyway. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) are circulating a draft bill that they hope will settle one of the major debates over competing legislative proposals: How heavy the hand of government should be in regulating industries that operate critical infrastructure....

Linaro boasts up to 100% speed boost for Android Developers at open-source nonprofit organization Linaro have posted a set of code tweaks for Android, enabling up to 100% increases in performance, compared to a vanilla version of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). A video the group recently posted, from its Q2 event, appears to show the Linaro version of Android dramatically outperforming a stock Android Open Source Project installation on a 3D graphics benchmark, finishing the tests well before the original version....

Intel says 20 Windows 8 tablets in works with Clover Trail chip Intel is seeking a reboot in the tablet market with its upcoming Atom Z2760 chips code-named Clover Trail, and 20 tablets are in the works with the new chips, the company said on Tuesday. “Our customers have 20 designs in their labs based on Clover Trail,” said Hermann Eul, president of Intel Mobile Communications Group, during an interview at the Computex trade show in Taipei....

Could data scientist be your next job? Want to extract real value from your data? Better hire a data scientist or two. In the past several months, large enterprises, staffing firms and universities have observed increasing interest in a new class of data professional – the data scientist. A curious blend of business, analytics and computer skills, this hot new title is on the march in diverse verticals such as energy, e-commerce, healthcare and financial services....