If you own an Android phone and use Office 2013, you no longer need to hover over your laptop or buy a Bluetooth remote to advance slides in PowerPoint. Late last week, Microsoft released Office Remote for Android, a free app that lets you quickly access key Office 2013 features …
Trying Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10051 on a Windows Phone is like drizzling honey over granola: It can be an excruciatingly slow experience that rewards you with a sweet, yet nutritious update. Let’s say that again: Some aspects of the new build are slow. Even after a …
Создатель Mortal Kombat X Эд Бун (Ed Boon) поведал в Twitter, что вам не обязательно тратиться на DLC-персонажей, чтобы получить доступ к особым испытаниям. …
Hortonworks announced today6 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Budapest-based SequenceIQ, an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for Hadoop. The move marks the second acquisition for the four-year-old Hortonworks, which last year acquired Hadoop security specialist XA Secure. Hortonworks donated XA Secure’s IP to the …
Security expert Bruce Schneier has looked at and written about difficulties the Internet of Things presents — such as the fact that the “things” are by and large insecure and enable unwanted surveillance — and concludes that it’s a problem that’s going to get worse before it gets better. After …
Human, rather than machine intelligence, is the big drive behind Apple’s plan for Beats, with the company making huge investments in intelligent playlist curation to support its service when it launches in June. Clever curation UK digital music industry bible, MusicAlly, this morning reports the following: “Music Ally has learned …
Исследователи безопасности Джоел Сент-Джон (Joel St. John) и Николас Гуиго (Nicolas Guigo) разработали подобную руткиту систему, позволяющую обойти анти-читинговые механизмы в видеоиграх. …
Is there anything better than putting on a jacket you haven’t worn in a while and discovering $20 in the pocket? Well, we’ve pushed that small pleasure up a notch and added a twist: If you suddenly had a spare $1,000, and wanted to put it toward furthering your professional …
Victims of the CoinVault ransomware might be able to decrypt their files with a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab together with the Dutch police. The tool can be found at https://noransom.kaspersky.com. The application uses decryption keys found by the Dutch police as part of an investigation. Ransomware like CoinVault …
Популярный мобильный браузер UC Browser, который используется миллионами пользователей на устройствах под управлением iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, Java и Blackberry OS, теперь доступен и для пользователей персональных компьютеров на Windows. …
Dell is giving Linux fans a laptop to call their own with the XPS 13 Developer Edition. The hardware is nearly identical to the Windows version that launched in January, including the edge-to-edge display that essentially fits a 13-inch laptop in an 11-inch body. But instead of Microsoft’s operating system, …
Американские исследователи из Pew Research опубликовали исследование, согласно которому дети богатых родителей в США имеют тенденцию к отказу от Facebook. …
Исследовательская компания Gartner опубликовала обновленный прогноз по мировой ИТ-отрасли. Эксперты ожидают, что расходы на ИТ в нынешнем году упадут на 1,3% из-за высокого курса доллара. …
На данный момент большинство владельцев Oculus Rift и аналогичных устройств использует виртуальную реальность исключительно для игр, однако возможности этой технологии куда более обширны. …
The U.S.’s recent denial of Intel chips for China’s fastest supercomputer could derail an upgrade to double the machine’s processing power. China’s Tianhe-2 is the world’s fastest supercomputer with a theoretical peak speed of 54.9 petaflops. It was scheduled to be expanded, and reach a new peak speed of 100 …
Last week, I was horrified to discover a problem with my vulnerability scanner. The product I use relies on a user account to connect to our Microsoft Windows servers and workstations to check them for vulnerable versions of software, and that user account had never been configured properly. As a …
10 апреля стартовал прием предзаказов на смарт-часы Watch; 24 апреля новый продукт Apple поступит в продажу. Стоит ли их покупать? В этой статье мы приведем три аргумента из лагеря скептиков. …
Microsoft presented a vision of how industrial robots could work more closely with people by harnessing the Internet of Things, cloud networking and 3D sensing technologies, linked through Windows platforms. In a demonstration at Hanover Messe, an industrial fair in Germany this week, Microsoft and industrial robot maker Kuka Robotics …
Transforming robot gets stuck in nuclear reactor The ability to change shape hasn’t saved a robot probe from getting stuck inside a crippled Japanese nuclear reactor. On Friday, the utility sent in the pipe-crawling, snake-like robot, which can transform itself into several configurations depending on the terrain, to determine the …
The new net neutrality rule was published over the weekend in the Federal Register, the daily journal of U.S. government actions, raising the possibility of a spate of lawsuits from broadband companies that oppose the rule. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in February to reclassify broadband as a …
If you’re waiting to see what the next LG flagship phone looks like, wait no longer. Here’s the LG G4, in all its leather-clad glory. It’s no clone. The secret site the images were snarfed from didn’t give much of a clue about the hardware specs — what was there …
It’s a recent Saturday and I’m searching for Spider-Man — the comics version — at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. Entering the busy shop across the street from the famous university, one must shuffle carefully through the entrance to avoid bumping into other shoppers. Navigating in Seattle: New …
Every programmer has a favorite language or two. JavaScript lovers are the luckiest these days because their language is taking over the Internet and the Internet is taking over the world. Those whose hearts reside elsewhere in the programming language world, however, are stuck. They can either stay on the …
This pilot fish is the go-to guy for antivirus issues at his company, and he’s painfully aware that there are a few gaps in the protection. “I can attest to the fact that there have been many emails, phone calls and one-on-one meetings with the department head to discuss the …
Ранее уже обсуждалась информация о том, что китайская компания Meizu работает над профессиональными наушниками, которые создаются вместе с известным австрийским аудиопроизводителем AKG. Предполагалось, что они должны улучшить звук в смартфонах Meizu M1 и MX4, которые и сами по себе обладают привлекательными аудиовозможностями. Напомним, что недавно вице-президент китайского производителя Ли Хан (Li Han) подтвердил, что Meizu и …
The ability to change shape hasn’t saved a robot probe from getting stuck inside a crippled Japanese nuclear reactor. Tokyo Electric Power will likely leave the probe inside the reactor housing at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex north of Tokyo after it stopped moving. On Friday, the utility sent a robot …