Image by Seanutbutter/Wikipedia Eating a healthy breakfast can help your children pay attention in school, but that doesn’t mean eating Frosted Mini-Wheats makes them smarter — or so a judge decided in a class action lawsuit brought by parents enraged over false advertising. The plaintiffs got $15 apiece, the lawyers …
The next edition of Google Glass will target enterprises and feature an attachable design, a news report suggests, shedding new light on rumors that have been circulating over the past several months. The device will feature a curved, rectangular form factor much the way the first, consumer-focused Glass edition did, …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should reject a privacy group’s push to extend the E.U.’s controversial right to be forgotten rules to the U.S. because such regulations would have a “sweeping” negative effect on many U.S. companies, a trade group said. The FTC should dismiss a July 7 complaint from …
Mozilla Firefox honcho castigates Microsoft chief: CEO Chris Beard is lambasting his opposite number at Microsoft for Windows 10’s inability to remember browser-choice settings. His complaint centers around the user experience when upgrading to the new OS. It appears that Satya’s crew decided—in their infinite wisdom—that all users should open the …
In partnership with Pluralsight, Network World presents a free course on CCNA routing and VLANs. In this course, the student will learn the fundamental concepts of networking, and then immediately apply this knowledge to the configuration of a router and switch. To read this article in full or to leave …
A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, …
If you’re excited about getting Windows 10 on your PC, but waiting for Microsoft to push out your “reserved” copy, well, you may be twiddling your thumbs a while yet. On Friday, Microsoft sent out an email to users who signed up to reserve their copy of Windows 10. The …
Mozilla yesterday went public with its complaint about Windows 10 resetting the default browser, calling it “disturbing” and demanding that it “undo its aggressive move to override user choice.” In a letter from Mozilla CEO Chris Beard to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, Beard slammed the way Windows 10 setup …
A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus firm confirmed the security breach, but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, …
IBM’s Watson will be working for drugstore chain CVS in a partnership that has the supercomputer pointing its cognitive computing power at customers with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity offering care providers insights into their patients’ behaviors. In a partnership announced today, IBM’s Watson supercomputer will be …
Windows 10 may be a radical change from its predecessors, maybe even the last version of the OS, but for enterprises planning to migrate to the new operating system, it will be the same old, same old, analysts said today. “Business as usual,” said Al Gillen of IDC in an …
A security researcher has posted a video on YouTube (embedded below) demonstrating how a device he made can intercept wireless communications to locate, unlock and remotely start GM vehicles that use the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app. Samy Kamkar, who refers to himself as a hacker and whistleblower, posted the video …
Mozilla yesterday went public with its complaint about Windows 10 resetting the default browser, calling it “disturbing” and demanding that it “undo its aggressive move to override user choice.” Microsoft defended the practice of making its Edge browser the default in Windows 10, but left open the possibility of a …
Your personal data: That’s what Windows 10’s Hello and Cortana features need to help you, assuming you’re comfortable with that. To be fair, it’s nothing new—plenty of apps and services ask for your preferences, location, etc., to serve you better. Windows Insiders who opted in to the Windows 10 Technical …
With the exception of MacBook Air, Apple laptops now ship with a Force Touch trackpad – this technology is expected to migrate to a future iPhone, so finding out what you can already do with it should be of interest. Force Touch lets you Force Click an item. You do …
Facebook’s new Internet-access drone set to fly by year end An unmanned aircraft called Aquila was the star of the show as Facebook on Thursday showed how it plans to provide Internet access to hundreds of millions of people in remote parts of the world. The plane should get a …
Cisco will pay incoming CEO Chuck Robbins a higher salary than outgoing chief John Chambers made in fiscal 2014. Robbins will make $1.15 million in salary in fiscal 2016, which began this week, and he could earn another $2.59 million based on performance under Cisco’s Executive Incentive Plan. Add in …
Three U.S. lawmakers are traveling to Silicon Valley to push tech companies to offer opportunities for African-Americans, an area in which most of these companies have poor track records. Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman G. K. Butterfield and Representatives Barbara Lee and Hakeem Jeffries, all members of the CBC Diversity …
Japanese researchers have developed an air-powered surgical assist robot that can change a camera view inside a patient’s body with a mere nod by a surgeon. Emaro is the first pneumatically driven robot in the world that can control an endoscope, a tubelike camera used to see inside the body, …
Как Вы заметили сегодняшние посты посвящены двум довольно заметным флагманам из поднебесной, смартфонам Meizu MX5 и Xiaomi Mi4. Оба производителя за последнее время уже смогли занять достойную нишу в мировом мобильном сегменте, поэтому при сравнении этих устройств можно заметить, что оба они довольно приемлемы. Однако стоит заметить, что разница анонсирования мобильников …
Windows 10 has been one of the most anticipated Windows releases in Microsoft history — especially given the issues with Windows 8, the result of Microsoft’s decision to build an operating system that works on both touch and non-touch systems. We’re covering Windows 10 from every angle, including articles about …
Flashback to 1992, when this IT pilot fish is fresh out of grad school and working for a government contractor. “I was working on a contract to design and develop a system engineering tool to help the government system engineers design and develop systems, using computer-aided software engineering tools,” says …
Windows 10 had been installed on more than 14 million devices by Thursday evening, a small step toward the company’s goal of an installed base of 1 billion. “While we now have more than 14 million devices running Windows 10, we still have many more upgrades to go before we …
После официально анонса операционной системы Windows 10, Microsoft начинает масштабную компанию по ее реализации. Особенно это коснется мобильной версии платформы, которая получила название Windows 10 Mobile. Ранее мы уже ка то писали о том, что Microsoft и китайский производитель Xiaomi начинает сотрудничество, но теперь стало известно, что одним из результатов данного …
Еще не определились какой именно смартфон стоит приобрести, обратите внимание на довольно примечательный аппарат Meizu MX5, который официально был представлен в конце прошлого месяца. Компания Meizu, которая в последние пару лет набирает обороты и вышла на мировой рынок, гордится своим последним флагманом. Meizu MX5, работающий под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android …
Uber Technologies expects to hit over 1 million trips per day in the next six to nine months in India, the largest market outside the U.S. for the ride-hailing company. The company said Friday it was making a new investment of US$1 billion in the country over the next nine …