Opponents of a U.S. Senate bill intended to encourage businesses to share information about cyberthreats may have stalled a vote on the legislation. Recent news reports had Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushing for a vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) before a four-week summer recess starting Aug. …
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 …
Pharmacists at some 7,800 CVS drugstores across the U.S. will soon be able to tap IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system in the hopes of predicting customers’ health problems before they arise. That’s thanks to a new partnership announced Thursday by IBM and CVS Health that aims to use predictive analytics …
Компания Wargaming представила версию игры World of Tanks для консоли Xbox One от Microsoft. Об этом говорится в пресс-релизе разработчика. …
Компания Microsoft уже научила свою игровую приставку Xbox One стримить игры на персональный компьютер с установленной Windows 10. Теперь же компания работает над стримингом в обратную сторону — с ПК на Xbox One. «Геймеры хотят играть со своими друзьями из любого места и с любого устройства», — утверждает Фил Спенсер, …
Next-generation endpoint protection vendor SentinelOne has received the same certification that many traditional antivirus platforms seek, meaning it can be considered suitable for meeting certain requirements of industry and governmental regulations. The company’s new endpoint protection platform, called EPP, has won an Approved Corporate Endpoint Protection seal of approval from …
While the buzz around big data analysis is at a peak, there is less discussion about how to get the necessary data into the systems in the first place, which can involve the cumbersome task of setting up and maintaining a number of data processing pipelines. To help solve this …
If you asked me three years ago what kind of smartphone you could get for a couple hundred bucks off-contract, my answer would have been easy: You could get one that, to put it delicately, is a total piece of crap. My, how things have changed. In my pocket right …
Wait, doesn’t it always make sense to download something for free? Microsoft released its brand-new operating system this week, and you can grab it at no cost, but make sure you know exactly what you are getting into before you upgrade. Let me be your guinea pig on this one. …
Компания Rovio объявила о выходе Angry Birds 2 — сиквела популярной игры-головоломки для мобильных платформ, появившейся в 2009 году. …
Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge base when it starts work as a sales clerk next year at Yamada Denki, a major electronics retailer. …
В настоящее время разгон процессоров Intel, не имеющих разблокированного множителя, весьма затруднён. Множитель по понятной причине изменить не получится, а разгон путём изменения частоты BCLK зачастую затруднён или его поддержка со стороны системной платы вовсе отсутствует. Поэтому в среде оверкловеров зреет мнение, что разгон, как явление, умирает. Однако, как сообщает …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two men and eight companies with defrauding investors, many of them upstate New York residents, who purchased the companies’ securities and so-called “charitable gift annuities.” According to the SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. district court in Syracuse, New York, the alleged scheme raised …
Хакерам из России удалось проникнуть в компьютерную сеть Белого дома с помощью распространения вируса в Twitter, сообщает «Интерфакс». …
The U.S. Navy has been testing the use of 3D printers on its ships to produce custom drones outfitted for specialized missions. The project, being carried out by researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School, is investigating whether modern communications and fabrication technology can be combined to give sailors a new …
Adobe’s Digital Publishing suite has long offered a way for brands to publish content on tablets, but on Wednesday the company introduced a new generation of the software tweaked specifically to put such capabilities in the hands of ordinary business users. Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Solution was designed to help …
Журналисты британского издания Daily Mail обнаружили брешь в безопасности принца Уильяма, начавшего работать пилотом спасательной службы. …
Компания Bluboo оказалась в числе первых производителей из Китая, решивших использовать сапфировое стекло в своих устройствах. …
В условиях общего падения спроса на смартфоны дешевеют чипы, обеспечивающие этим устройствам мобильную связь четвертого поколения (LTE). О данной тенденции рассказало издание DigiTimes со ссылкой на отраслевые источники. …
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В последнее время Samsung работала над новыми, более тонкими сенсорами камеры, которые могут быть использованы в смартфонах нового поколения. …
Millions of Web users could be vulnerable to an attack on their computer’s DRAM via the Web, a surprising development that expands on a bug that has increasingly worried computer security experts. It has been known for several years that densely packed memory cells on computers are vulnerable to intentional …
Chromebooks versus Cloudbooks: Will Microsoft beat Google? Chromebooks have proven to be undeniably popular, with various models getting rave reviews on Amazon’s bestselling Chromebook list. But now a new wave of cheap Windows-based laptops called Cloudbooks are coming. Will the new Cloudbooks give Microsoft the upper hand and destroy the …
Several versions of the Android OS for smartphones have appeared on the global stage in recent years. One version, Cyanogen OS, has gathered publicity as well as prominent investors –including Twitter, Qualcomm and Foxconn — that could give it some staying power. In a July report, IDC analyst William Stofega, …
Offshore outsourcing firms that do most of their work in India remain the largest users of the H-1B visa for computer-related jobs, seemingly unaffected by the odds of the visa lottery, according to new data. With the exception of a few tech firms — notably Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle …
Java developers are slated to get REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) capability via jshell with next year’s planned Java 9 release. In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use enabled by REPL and Java’s setback with the lack of this capability. “Instead of having to construct and compile …