Турция разблокировала Twitter и Facebook
В Турции разблокирован доступ к социальным сетям Twitter и Facebook. …
В Турции разблокирован доступ к социальным сетям Twitter и Facebook. …
The U.S. government has announced plans to help train 75,000 people to enter the solar workforce by 2020, including a number of veterans. President Obama announced the expansion to a previous solar industry training plan during a visit to Utah’s Hill Air Force Base on Friday. The new initiative is a …
Компания LG Display подтвердила предстоящий анонс нового поколения моноблоков iMac c разрешением дисплея 8K. В частности, информация об этом содержится в статье «Следующее поколение высокого разрешения 8K», опубликованной на официальном сайте компании. …
Пользователь YouTube-канала Myithz выложил свежую аэровидеосъемку строящегося кампуса Apple. Видео снималось в разрешении 4K с помощью модели DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus и камеры GoPro. Примерная высота съёмки — 120 м. …
Согласно новому исследованию Африканского института развития и управления (African Governance and Development Institute, AGDI), пиратство улучшает грамотность и развивает знания. Специалисты из AGDI предупреждают, что строгие антипиратские законы в некоторых случаях неприемлемы. …
Government and educational institutions can now buy applications via Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace and deploy them on the company’s cloud platform. The store is also opening to businesses that bought Azure services through Microsoft partners, rather than directly. The expansion broadens access to the cloud app store, through which Microsoft sells …
iTunes and Linux It will probably be a cold day in you-know-where before we ever see a native version of iTunes for Linux. Apple just isn’t interested in supporting Linux. But you actually can run iTunes in Linux via WINE, and if that doesn’t float your boat then there are …
Tech giants including Salesforce, Apple and Yelp have been out front in their criticism of the new law in Indiana that allows businesses to discriminate against gay customers. That criticism is a good thing. Businesses have a role in not just selling things to people, but in doing good and …
Child advocates slam YouTube Kids in complaint to FTC The new YouTube Kids video app definitely isn’t TV: If it were, its heavy advertising content and cheerful blending of commerce and entertainment would probably be illegal, because commercial television aimed at children is governed by strict regulations. Now a coalition …
We all know that software is an important part of everyone’s lives today given all of the things it now powers, from computers to thermostats. But can the programming logic and code behind software be admired not just for its functionality, but also for its aesthetic qualities? Based on the …
Компания Cube решила выделиться среди потока планшетов на Android и Windows и выпустила гаджет под управлением Ubuntu. Cube i7-СМ – планшет на базе чипа Intel Core М и управляется фриварной платформой построенной на базе Linux – Canonical. Он появится на рынки Китая на этой неделе, купить его сможет любой желающий на китайской бирже AliExpress или в …
The amount of IT outsourcing business up for grabs, coupled with an eruption of emerging technologies and delivery models, has made 2015 a buyers’ market for IT services. As a result, IT service providers are engaged in a price war the likes of which hasn’t been seen for nearly 15 …
Steven Lefkowitz owes his job as an IT project manager at Partners HealthCare to his 75-pound golden retriever. In 2013 he struck up a conversation with the woman who was going to care for the dog while Lefkowitz and his wife were on vacation. “She knew I was in job …
This IT support pilot fish has been an employee at this company for a few years — and so has a friend of his, who came on board to join the regular staff after a stint as a contract employee. “I just received a note that my coworker’s contractor access …
A handful of hours ago, Twitter rolled out its new “revamped quote” functionality. Predictably, bloggers immediately began using the new feature, while at the same time sharing their pointed critiques with followers. So, given this vast pool of bloggy commentary, we’ve selected only the choicest tweets for inclusion in today’s …
Asus пополнила серию Asus Padfone новой моделью – Asus Padfone S Plus. Официальное анонсирование пока не состоялось, но завтра, 8 апреля Asus Padfone S Plus уже поступает в продажу в Малайзии по ориентировочной цене порядка 300 американских доллара. Естественно, за эту цену предлагается только сам смартфон, а дополнительная док-станция преобразующая его в планшет предлагается отдельно, в качестве …
Uber Technologies has asked a California court to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought against it by a woman who alleges she was raped by an Uber driver while taking a trip in Delhi. In part, Uber contests that it never had a relationship with the driver in question and that …
The Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that promotes development of bitcoin, is “effectively bankrupt” and has shed most of its staff, a member of the foundation’s board of directors has said. Two other board members, however, said the foundation was not bankrupt, though in need of some kind of restructuring. The …
Стартап Ossia анонсировал чипсет для беспроводной зарядки, который работает с мобильными устройствами без добавления дополнительных антенн. Устройство позволяет связываться с Wi-Fi и Bluetooth-модулями. Ossia планирует начать отгрузки своей технологии беспроводной зарядки Cota производителям гаджетов уже в этом году. О работах, ведущихся в этом направлении в Ossia заявили еще два года назад. Тогда разработчики утверждали, что чипсет …
The six-week-old YouTube Kids service is a “hyper-commercialized” environment that intermixes advertising and other programming in a way that deceives its target audience, a coalition of privacy and children’s advocacy groups said in a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Joining in giving YouTube Kids the big thumbs-down are …
The open-source and free software user group Linux Australia said personal information for attendees of two conferences it hosts may have been leaked after malware was found on one of its servers. The information may have included first and last names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers and hashed passwords, …
It sounds easy enough for the average healthy person, but could it be made easier for people who have to do a lot of it – like nurses, soldiers, police officers or postal workers? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) think they can make walking more efficient, enabling a nurse, …
Audi is working with Mobileye, Nvidia and Delphi to develop the various hardware and software components of an autonomous vehicle controller that will be about the size of an iPad. The driver assistance controller (zFAS) board will act as the central interface for all piloted driving functions. It is expected …
CoreOS, maker of the container-oriented Linux distribution of the same name, is now offering a commercial version of its product that’s built for enterprises and includes tools for managing containers at scale. The new product, called Tectonic, combines CoreOS with Kubernetes, the container-management tool created by Google. CoreOS says Tectonic …
Microsoft today closed its acquisition of Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services for the R programming language, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. “R is the world’s most popular programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics, used by more than 2 million people worldwide,” says Joseph …
Samsung Electronics expects first quarter profits to drop by more than 30%, marking the sixth straight quarterly decline at the company, which is struggling to compete with Apple at the top of the smartphone market. Operating profit for the quarter will be around 5.9 trillion won ($5.4 billion), a drop …