Авторитетная исследовательская организация McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) составила список новых технологий, которые способны не только обогатить мировую экономику, но и в корне изменить деловой и социальный ландшафт, перестроить привычный образ жизни и деятельности, подорвать сами устои рынка труда. …
Очередной случай самопроизвольного возгорания смартфона произошел в США. На сей раз виновником происшествия стал прошлогодний флагман Samsung — Galaxy S III. В отличие от предыдущих случаев, получивших широкую огласку, последствия для владельца аппарата тут могли бы быть намного серьезнее. …
Apple has agreed to pay US$53 million to settle a class-action suit in connection with warranties for its iPhone and iPod touch devices. …
Australia's government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard. …
Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. …
Facebook is admitting that it can do a better job in removing certain types of hate speech on the site, and is introducing some new policies to improve its track record. …
Twitter has reached a settlement with Skootle that prohibits the Tennessee-based company from spamming Twitter users' feeds with marketing and other promotional content. …
Verizon Wireless customers buying the recently released Samsung Galaxy S4 will be the first who can start using a new spectrum band that the carrier will start turning on later this year. …
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds, who last month acknowledged authorizing a secret search of email belonging to several residential deans at the school, will step down from her position July 1. read more
Intel's latest chip, the 4th generation Core processor code-named Haswell, will take a 6-hour battery and make it last for 9 hours. read more
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan this afternoon and is set to reach the space station at 10:16 p.m ET. read more
Moderate Muslims and other people concerned with online radicalization efforts need to counter the extremist propaganda young Muslims are getting on the Web with more positive messages, members of the U.S. Islamic community said. read more
A new demo video from Leap Motion shows how waving your finger in your air like you just don't care is totally possible with Windows 8. read more
A new Microsoft patent suggests TV-based achievements could be coming to an Xbox One console near you. read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted online payment processor Liberty Reserve for laundering US$6 billion in a series of global transactions, which the agency charges may be the largest international money laundering prosecution in history. read more
With Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer taking steps to transform the company back into a top-tier player, reports are out that Yahoo is in talks to buy Hulu for as much as $800 million. read more
Modern technology beats drinking warm milk any day. read more
Audiophiles and superfans alike will appreciate these apps that keep you in the loop on live music. read more
IDC today drastically lowered its forecast for PC shipments in 2013, a prediction that if accurate means more bad news for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. read more
Our recent 20-city tests of wireless service show that both 3G and 4G services slow down less than 10 percent indoors. read more
Microsoft has made it official: The new-and-improved Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One later this year will also come to Windows in 2014. read more
Google's Nexus 4 smartphone is not at the end of its life despite suspicions to the contrary during the run-up to Google I/O. read more
For the first three months of his life, Kaiba Gionfriddo's airway collapsed repeatedly, occasionally causing his heart to stop and leaving many doctors at a loss for how to help him. Then, in the first procedure of its kind, doctors in Michigan used a 3D printing method to create an …
В будущем IPhone сможет изменять громкость автоматически, в зависимости от того насколько далеко Вы находитесь от устройства. “Корректировка акустических свойств на основе обнаружения близости,” заявка на патент, опубликованная сегодня американским Бюро регистрации патентов и товарных знаков, описывает, что датчик IPhone может использоваться, чтобы автоматически изменить громкость или даже переключиться на динамик. …
Как сообщает тайваньский портал Focus Taiwan, не коммерческая организация Mozilla и производитель компьютерной техники Foxconn объявили, что 3 июня этого года они представят новое устройство, работающее на базе операционной системе Firefox. Некто сообщил Focus Taiwan, что новым продуктом вероятнее всего будет планшет. Ранее были слухи, что Mozilla работает над новой …
Смартфон HTC Desire 600 построен на базе нового бюджетного процессора Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами, работающий на тактовой частоте 1,2 Гигагерца, появился в России для предварительного заказа. Объем оперативной памяти составляет 1 Гигабайт, а встроенной – 8 Гигабайт с возможностью расширения с помощью microSD карт; размер Super LCD2 дисплея …