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Исчезнут ли из нашей жизни компьютеры, оставив мир гигантским смартфонам и планшетам? Который год вокруг мифической эры Post PC идут ожесточенные споры. …
Исчезнут ли из нашей жизни компьютеры, оставив мир гигантским смартфонам и планшетам? Который год вокруг мифической эры Post PC идут ожесточенные споры. …
Производитель компьютеров Mac славится целостной экосистемой, и цифры, отражающие распространённость операционных систем Apple, давно превратились в предмет гордости для её руководителей. …
Google на конференции в Сан-Франциско анонсировала новую версию операционной системы Android — Android M. Платформа, которая идет на смену нынешней версии Android 5.0 Lollipop (Android L), представленной год назад, содержит свыше 200 улучшений. …
«ВКонтакте» запустила программу вознаграждений за найденные в официальном приложении для iOS, Android и Windows Phone уязвимости. Об этом говорится в сообщении операционного директора социальной сети Андрея Рогозова. …
Первые слухи о датчике давления Force Touch в следующем поколении iPhone предполагали, что он будет использоваться только в планшетофоне iPhone 6s Plus. Позднее аналитики опровергли эту информацию, заявив, что Apple собирается внедрить поддержку технологии и в iPhone 6s. …
Власти Великобритании решили не продлевать контракт с Microsoft о расширенной поддержке компьютеров на базе Windows XP. Это значит, что тысячи ПК, используемых правительством страны, окажутся беззащитными перед хакерскими атаками. …
Энтузиастам удалось портировать Half-Life на мобильные телефоны. Команда разработчиков SDLash3D уже выпустила первую работающую версию игры для Android-устройств. …
В ходе конференции Google I/O представители американского поискового гиганта сообщили новые подробности о готовящейся к запуску системе мобильных платежей Android Pay …
Провокационный экшен Hatred всё чаще попадает в новостные заголовки, хотя сами разработчики ничего для этого не делают. К примеру, прошлым вечером в сервисе Twitch обновились правила — отныне в нём запрещено транслировать игры, заслужившие рейтинг Adults Only («Только для взрослых») на ESRB. …
На странице Xbox Games Store появилась дата выхода перезагрузки серии Need for Speed до ее официального анонса. Представители Electronic Arts вместе с выходом дебютного трейлера игры пообещали выпустить игру осенью 2015 года, оставит точную дату неизвестной. …
The creator and chief operator of the Silk Road has been sentenced to two life sentences in jail for running the online drug marketplace, which federal prosecutors estimated facilitated the sale of more than US$213 million worth of drugs and other unlawful goods between 2011 and 2013. The life sentences …
Amid all the announcements of new technologies, one of the things that stood out about Google’s keynote address to attendees of its I/O development conference in San Francisco on Thursday was the diverse group of faces presenting there. While the tech industry struggles to reach gender parity in its workforce, …
Gone are the days of skydivers landing on the tops of buildings wearing Google Glass, or new Chromebooks, tablets and smartwatches. This year, the focus of much of Google’s big I/O conference was to propel the Android operating system into new areas others have pioneered, like peer-to-peer payments and smart …
Businesses using Android devices will be getting some new features to play with in Android M, the next version of the mobile operating system that’s slated for launch in the third quarter this year. Google’s next update to Android contains a number of changes to its enterprise-focused tools, along with …
Developers creating content for Google’s Cardboard virtual-reality system should look to short online videos for inspiration and avoid drawn-out experiences. Content for Cardboard should be “snackable virtual reality,” said Jon Wiley, the product’s principal designer, during the I/O developer conference on Friday. “For Cardboard, you want [an experience] to be …
Right around the time that the Stuxnet attack so famously sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 and 2010, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly was trying something similar against North Korea. The NSA-led U.S. effort used a version of the Stuxnet virus designed to be activated by Korean-language computer settings, …
Speaking machines don’t exist despite being put on the wish list at the 1956 A.I. conference at Dartmouth College. That was nearly 60 years ago and we seem no closer to accurate speaking machines. What went wrong? Today we will look at how speaking machines remain out of reach waiting …
Italian architects have called on the government and the Antitrust Authority to close down a crowdsourcing platform in a new round of the battle against disruptive technology. Taxi associations convinced a Milan court to ban the UberPop car-sharing app Tuesday on the grounds that it constituted unfair competition and put …
The creator and chief operator of the Silk Road has been sentenced to two life sentences in jail for running the online drug marketplace, which federal prosecutors estimated facilitated the sales of more than US$213 million worth of drugs and other unlawful goods between 2011 and 2013. The life sentences …
Apple again took the top prize in Consumer Reports‘ survey of technical support providers, thumping rival personal computer makers by a large margin and edging out third-party local support. The publication posted the results of its poll of 3,200 computer owners Thursday. Those users had contacted a company’s technical support …
Google targeted people’s growing digital insecurity at its I/O developer conference this week with a number of new products that aim to protect communications and improve authentication. Project Vault is a new hardware device created by Google’s Advanced Technology and Products (ATAP) lab for people who need the absolute highest …
Google and Apple are two of the staunchest competitors in any industry, especially with regard to their Android and iOS operating systems for smartphones and tablets. One reality of the last nine months is that Apple has gained a tight grip on the market for high-end, pricier smartphones, the only …
Many data centers today inventory physical assets the same way grocery stores track food, with barcodes and scanners. It’s not efficient and a certain percentage of assets will become “lost” because asset databases haven’t been updated. But Intel is considering adding active RFID tags to its chipsets, replacing barcode scanning …
Instead of trying to scroll through your contacts list on a tiny smartwatch, Google thinks you should be able to just touch your sleeve to initiate a phone call. That’s just one example of what developers might be able to do with Project Jacquard, unveiled at the I/O developer conference …
Telecom giant Ericsson announced this week it is testing out 5G networks in the U.S. and Sweden, and has already exceeded 2Gbps throughput using multiple radio streams at the same time. Ericsson made the announcement by releasing a photo of a van and asking “What seats 8 comfortably, gets 20 …
PC shipments will continue to contract during 2015, but it won’t be the fault of the Windows 10 free upgrade, research firm IDC said today. “It’s all about how you look at it,” Loren Loverde, an analyst at IDC, said in an interview today. “The first half of this year …