Chinese search giant Baidu has fired one of its researchers, after the company found he had deliberately broken the rules of an artificial intelligence contest. The company was among the participants in a computing competition called the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. However, last month the contest organizers found …
Xbox One sales in April gave Microsoft a glimmer of hope in the console market, but the PlayStation 4 retook the top position in the U.S. last month, according to Sony. The PS4 was the top-selling console and the leader in software sales in the U.S. in May, Sony Computer …
Speculation about whether the Islamic State (IS) group is using bitcoin intensified Thursday in the U.S. when government officials said a Virginia teenager admitted to providing the organization with advice on the virtual currency. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support and resources …
The OpenSSL project has released several patches for moderate flaws, including an additional defense against the Logjam vulnerability revealed last month. OpenSSL is widely used open-source software that encrypts communications using the SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) protocol. SSL/TLS prevents clear-text data from being transmitted across the Web, avoiding …
Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter after five years on the job, relinquishing his post amid longstanding problems including sluggish growth and frequent abusive comments posted to the social network. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of Square, will be interim CEO when Costolo steps …
Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter after five years on the job, relinquishing his post amid longstanding problems including sluggish growth and frequent abusive comments posted to the social network. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of Square, will be interim CEO when Costolo steps …
A union representing U.S. government workers says it believes detailed personal information on millions of current and former federal employees that was stolen by hackers was not encrypted. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said the attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) resulted in the theft of …
It’s been two years since Google first disclosed Project Loon, and while the company continues to keep most details of the project secret, the technology and challenges behind it are slowly coming into focus. Loon is an ambitious attempt to bring the Internet to the roughly 5 billion people on …
One of the most popular big data processing platforms, Spark, now supports one of the premier statistical programming languages, R, which could pave the way for easier big data statistical analysis. “R is the lingua franca of data scientists and its adoption has exploded in the last two years,” wrote …
A U.S. appeals court has denied requests by several broadband providers and trade groups to delay the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules while they challenge the regulations. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied 10 requests to delay the implementation of the rules. …
Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will leave the social networking company on July 1, a move that comes after months of intense pressure from disgruntled investors. Twitter co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey will be taking over as interim CEO while the company looks for a new chief executive, the company …
The future of gaming is closer than you think. Or at least, the future of gaming as envisioned by Oculus VR. The company’s Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that lets users play epic games with an immersive 360-degree field of vision, will ship by March of next year, and …
Apple did not trumpet it earlier this week during the keynote address kicking off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but the company will release an Android-to-iOS migration app alongside iOS 9 this fall. The app, given the prosaic name “Move to iOS,” will help switchers defect Android for Apple’s iPhone …
A project developer who raised more than $122,800 on Kickstarter to create a new board game has been charged by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission with using the money for personal equipment, moving expenses, rent and licenses for a separate project. Erik Chevalier, doing business as The Forking Path, asked …
There’s no wrong way to use Android — and no one is more aware of that than Gina Trapani. Gina Trapani’s worn lots of different hats over the years. She founded Lifehacker and served as its inaugural editor. She hosted two different shows on the TWiT podcast network, including the …
To help developers find hidden errors in their programs, Facebook has released as open source a tool that it uses to debug millions of lines of its own code. The software, called Infer, could be useful to organizations and individuals building mobile and desktop apps and could use extra help …
В первом квартале 2015 года 51% рекламной выручки соцсети Facebook пришлось не на американские рынки. Рекламодатели из США оплатили социальной сети всего 49% от всего дохода. Рост рекламного дохода особенно хорошо заметен в азиатском регионе, он составил 57%. В общей сложности доход компании от рекламы в первом квартале 2015 года выросла на 46% и …
Я надеюсь вы знаете, что Youtube поддерживает видео в формате 8K с 2010 года. Вкладка выбора 8K видео (4320p/8K) был добавлен ранее в этом году, упоминается в Google, но поддержка самого формата видео огромного размера существует уже в течении пяти лет. Вопрос в том, кто может себе позволить оборудование, которое может снимать …
Подсчитав майские поставки ноутбуков в глобальном масштабе, аналитики Digitimes Research заметили неоднозначную динамику на рынке. …
Flashback to the late 1970s, when this military agency is using highly classified mainframe systems that use punch cards to boot the machine, according to an IT pilot fish at one remote site. “But then the vendor came up with a way to do startups using magnetic tape,” fish says. …
В условиях замедления темпов роста продаж смартфонов все более высокую популярность обретают крупноразмерные модели и устройства с дисплеями высокой четкости. Об этой тенденции говорят аналитики WitsView. …
Многие современные люди любят игры, совмещая их с работой, учебой и родительскими заботами. Они используют свободные минуты для того, чтобы поиграть и снять стресс, побывав в виртуальном мире. …
На следующий день после презентации iOS 9 и OS X El Capitan старший вице-президент по маркетингу Apple Фил Шиллер принял участие в записи подкаста Джона Грубера The Talk Show, где рассказал отношение компании к некоторым вопросам, связанным с Apple-устройствами, которые уже долгое время тревожат пользователей. …
В Пекине китайская компания Xiaomi представила несколько новых продуктов. …
По данным Factum Group, за последний год снизилась посещаемость российских сервисов yandex.ua, mail.ru, odnoklassniki.ua, vk.com в Украине. …
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