The Apple Watch sold out almost immediately earlier today, making good on a promise by the company’s head of retail that supply would not be sufficient at the start. Ship times for the low-end Sport and mid-range Watch editions shifted to between four and six weeks within minutes of pre-order …
Lenovo выпустила довольно доступный смартфон под названием A1900. Аппарат можно приобрести менее чем за $60. При этом, в качестве мобильной платформы задействована система Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Что же касается комплектующих, то смартфон построен на базе процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Cortex-A7 – Spreadtrum SC7730 дополненный графическим ускорителем Mali-400. Объем оперативной памяти тут не велик – всего 512 Мб. На …
Light, golden, pleasing to the eye — no, it’s not a breakfast biscuit or supermodel — it’s Apple’s newest MacBook. That’s the good news. The bad news: Most impressions of Apple’s magic machine sound as if the reviewer continued on from yesterday’s piece about the new Apple Watch. Rinse. Repeat. …
Thin crowds greet Apple Watch in stores in Asia The arrival of the Apple Watch in stores across Asia on Friday failed to draw the same crowds that greeted the launch of the iPhone 6—a sign, perhaps, that Apple fans are prepared to queue overnight to buy, but not just …
The hacked French-language TV network TV5Monde might have made it easier for hackers to compromise its systems and social media accounts. One of its employees was interviewed about the hack on TV—in front of a wall of posters that appeared to contain usernames and passwords for the channel’s social media …
What is artificial intelligence (AI), and what is the difference between general AI and narrow AI? There seems to be a lot of disagreement and confusion around artificial intelligence right now. We’re seeing ongoing discussion around evaluating AI systems with the Turing Test, warnings that hyper-intelligent machines are going to …
Apple has yet another success on its hands. Sell out Think about it. It seems Apple has already sold out of a product that hasn’t officially shipped. And even though you can’t buy the product in an Apple Retail store, hundreds are already waiting in line just to take a …
Китайская компания Oppo выпустила смартфон A31, который пополнит ассортимент среднего звена. Новинка предлагается в корпусах белого и темно-синего и выполнен на основе металлической рамки, а фронтальная и тыльная панели защищены прочным стеклом, устойчивым к царапинам. Такое исполнение должно создавать ощущение от использования смартфона более дорогой ценовой категории. В Oppo A31 используется микрочип Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, в состав …
While thumb-typing or finger-swiping on your smartphone screen may be good enough for tweeting or texting, more wordy activities — like typing long email messages, taking notes at conference sessions or writing documents like this one — are grueling at best. For that, you need a physical keyboard. There’s no …
The arrival of the Apple Watch in stores Friday failed to draw the same crowds that greeted the launch of the iPhone 6—but this may be a sign that Apple fans are prepared to queue overnight to buy, but not just to try. For the next two weeks, visitors to …
The U.K. government’s mass surveillance practices will be challenged at the European Court of Human Rights. Human rights and civil liberties organizations Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International have filed a joint application with the court, they announced on Friday. The groups assert that U.K domestic law governing the U.K. …
Sysadmin who has access to all parts of this office’s IT systems decides to play an April Fool’s joke that’s, well, a little too good, reports a pilot fish on the scene. “We have a very good salesman who the sysadmin decided to put on the Secret Service’s most-wanted list,” …
Tokyo Electric Power on Friday sent a robot where no machine has gone before—inside the highly radioactive heart of a reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant. The robot, developed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID), was inserted into the primary …
Новая часть легендарного файтинга Mortal Combat для ПК и консолей выйдет на следующей неделе, а сейчас пользователи “яблочных” гаджетов уже могут протестировать мобильную версию игры. Управление в новом Mortal Combat почти не отличается от других файтингов компании NetherRealm: все действия персонажа выполняются с помощью обычных тапов (нажатий) по дисплею и свайпов (провести пальцем по дисплею). …
The body that manages the Internet domain name system has asked regulators in the U.S. and Canada to comment on the legality of the high prices and procedures used by Vox Populi Registry for registrations of ‘.sucks’ domain names by trademark owners. The move Thursday by the Internet Corporation for …
Трое исследователей из Университета штата Айова при поддержке Управления перспективных исследований и разработок министерства обороны США (Defense Advanced Research Program Agency, DARPA) разработали новое ПО под названием Security Toolbox. ПО разработано для быстрого обнаружения вредоносного ПО, созданного специально для операционной системы Android. Security Toolbox использует ряд анализаторов для детектирования возможных признаков скрытого вредоносного программного …
U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China’s supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports. The four institutions, which include China’s …
U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China’s supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports. The four institutions, which include China’s …
After a few weeks of speculation, Altera has apparently walked away from a very generous acquisition offer from Intel. Altera makes field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processors, a field Intel does not play in, and it would have been a whole new market for Intel, which really needs a growth story …
A large hotel management company has confirmed a second payment card breach in less than 14 months, underscoring the difficulties businesses are having with data thieves. White Lodging Services said the second breach was detected on Jan. 27 after unusual payment card activity was discovered on credit cards used at …
IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology’s strengths as a long-term storage medium. The prototype Fujifilm tape and accompanying drive technology from IBM labs packs 88 times as much data onto a tape …
IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology’s strengths as a long-term storage medium. The prototype Fujifilm tape and accompanying drive technology from IBM labs packs 88 times as much data onto a tape …
Jawbone’s latest activity tracker, the UP3, will finally ship April 20 after being delayed for months, though without a core feature the company had hoped for. Water resistance issues led to delays in the product’s launch, Jawbone said Thursday. The company was hoping for a product that could be submerged …
It’s coming up on two years since Salesforce acquired Pardot, and on Thursday the company enriched its resulting Sales Cloud B2B marketing-automation product with two new key capabilities. Intelligent Engagement Studio, for instance, offers granular targeting, testing and reporting capabilities designed to help marketers and sales teams connect with prospects …
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial shone a light on discrimination in the tech industry, but for a more immediate look at the challenges women face in corporate America, look no further than a Google Images search. Doing a search at the site for “CEO” reveals just one female face in …
A slowdown in Windows XP upgrades and the wait for Windows 10 sent worldwide PC shipments tumbling to a six-year low in the first quarter this year, according to IDC. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.5 million units during the first quarter, declining by 6.7 percent compared with the same quarter …