These days, space is far from empty, especially the near space around the Earth. NASA says 22,000 pieces of space junk, including rocket boosters and old satellites, are orbiting our planet and posing a growing threat to the ongoing exploration of our solar system. At least once a year the International Space Station has to maneuver around a menacing piece of junk because, with space debris swirling around at 17,500 miles an hour, even a tiny screw could inflict severe damage to a passing spacecraft. Until recently, tracking the space…

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that Check Point Threat Emulation Service, which protects organizations against new, unknown and targeted attacks before they infect a network, has the highest catch rate of malicious files. In recent benchmark testing, 600 malicious files were scanned through Check Point Threat Emulation and other competitive products. The results found that Check Point outperformed all of the others in this test, with a malicious file catch rate of 99.83%. The other competitive products detected an average of 53%…

As billions more devices get connected to the internet, there will be a huge infrastructure transformation on the backend. Cloud computing will play a major role in how the world takes advantage of that device-driven data explosion. Estimates vary about the number of connected devices there will be as the internet of things shapes up – a recent Gartner estimate was 26 billion by 2020 — but everyone agrees there will be a ton. The numbers are staggering even when it comes to personal electronic devices like smartphones, tablets and game consoles. Just five…

For Farmers of the Future who will be feeding nine billion mouths by midcentury, the challenges are these: How to maximize the harvest, given the variables of soil, seed, water, and weather? And how to cope with droughts and severe storms that threaten to destroy your crops? Today the people who feed the world are armed with modern analytical tools offering far greater precision than hoes, hunches, and luck. For example, companies such as Monsanto and DuPont are creating hardware and software that allow for planting and fertilization with surgical…