Firefox 37 released The Mozilla developers have been rocketing right along with the development of Firefox. Firefox 37 is the latest version and it offers native HTML5 playback on YouTube, a new user rating system called Heartbeat and secure Bing searches. Marius Nestor reports for Softpedia: For end-users, Mozilla Firefox …
Apple откроет предварительные заказы на Apple Watch в пятницу, 10 апреля. Продажи «умных» часов начнутся Австралии, Великобритании, США, Германии, Канаде, Китае, Гонконге, Франции и Японии с 24 апреля, однако приобрести устройства первое время смогут только те, кто успел оставить предзаказ на новинку. …
Google has identified and disabled 192 Chrome browser extensions that injected rogue ads into Web pages opened by users without being upfront about it. The company will scan for similar policy violations in future. The action followed a study that the company conducted together with researchers from University of California …
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств Blackview, выявил желание выпустить смартфон, стоимость которого будет ниже 100 американских доллара. И выпустил! Новинка получила название Blackview Breeze, а внешний вид очень напоминает уже известный аппарат – mini OPPO. Китайские смартфоны за последние годы показали отличные результаты в качестве сборки и выпускаемых комплектующих, что составляет конкуренцию известным популярным брендам …
If you were forced to wear a GPS ankle monitor at all times so your location would be known, that would be a Fourth Amendment search according to the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled on Torrey Dale Grady v. North Carolina (pdf). A GPS ankle monitor was installed on twice-convicted …
I can’t believe Apple is doing this. It seems incredible the company is achieving all of this right under the noses of watchful competitors. Digital transformation I’m talking about Apple and IBM’s continued march into delivering best-in-class, approachable, useful solutions that use the power of big buzz technologies like big …
Amazon wants to try putting physical “buy now” buttons all over your house Because Jeff Bezos hasn’t yet figured how to wire your brain directly to Amazon’s warehouses, the company is experimenting with cluttering your home with special-purpose buttons in the name of e-commerce. Its new Dash Buttons can be …
SmartThings, the home automation company Samsung Electronics acquired last August, has delayed the launch of its new home hub and sensors to the third quarter, as it works to improve performance and stability. Even though the products have been built and are currently being tested, SmartThings felt it necessary to …
Happy April Fools’ Image by Thinkstock It seems everyone is in the April Fools’ spirit today, with pranks coming from Samsung, Virgin and, of course, pretty much every Google business unit there is. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here …
If you’re familiar with GitHub, you’re probably aware that, these days, it’s used to store and manage many things beyond just software code. Now, thanks to the efforts of one developer, it also includes a piece of living history that’s had a global impact for two hundred years: namely, the …
Desktop devices running Chrome OS haven’t exactly found much traction, but that hasn’t stopped Acer from developing an all-in-one PC built for the Google operating system. On Wednesday, Acer announced its upcoming Chromebase device, just after Google and its partners unveiled a range of new Chrome-related products slated to launch …
Google announced it has teamed up with Asus to create the Chromebit, a tiny USB powered device that can “attach to any display.” This of course really means “we’d love it if you would turn your living room TV into a Chrome OS computer.” Although the tiny-computer-on-a-stick concept isn’t new, …
There was a money quote from Michael Cavaretta, a data scientist at Ford Motor, in a recent article in The New York Times. The piece was about the challenges data scientists face going about their daily business. Cavaretta said: “We really need better tools so we can spend less time …
Mac users of Office who have felt left out in the cold by Microsoft (because the last version, Office 2011 for Mac, was released in October 2010) now have reason to be pleased: The preview of Office 2016 for Mac attempts to bring the suite out of the dark ages …
It was probably inevitable: The New York Times announced Tuesday it will produce one-sentence stories and other content on various topics for the Apple Watch, the day the device first goes on sale on April 24. The Times was also early to appear with its content on both the iPhone …
This software developer pilot fish and a teammate have been working on an overtime-request-and-approval web application for the past few months — a project that has been off and on for four years, but is finally almost ready. “We built it to spec, according to the functional specifications document that …
One of the paradoxes of today’s data-driven world is that the very data we seek for competitive advantage can be both a curse and a blessing. Businesses need the right data to gain a leg up, but each new bit they acquire makes it harder to uncover the data they …
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) asked an appeals court on Tuesday to force the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to come up with privacy rules concerning drones. Many are worried that small, cheap, camera-equipped devices could soon be zipping around their neighborhoods, peering into gardens, through windows and into other …
Verizon customers can now opt out of having a unique identifier placed on their phones that critics have labelled a ‘supercookie’ because it’s almost impossible to remove. Verizon said in January that it would allow subscribers to opt out of the tracking mechanism, but it didn’t say when. On Tuesday, …
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) asked an appeals court on Tuesday to force the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to come up with privacy rules concerning drones. Many are worried that small, cheap, camera-equipped devices could soon be zipping around their neighborhoods, peering into gardens, through windows and into other …
The first survey on counterfeit electrical products ever done in Africa has been conducted by Schneider Electric to determine the extent of the problem and highlight actions to mitigate its spread across the continent. “We knew that counterfeiting in Africa had a huge impact on the market both in terms …
Opponents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules aren’t giving up, with a conservative advocacy group saying it has collected more than 540,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to overturn the agency’s action. American Commitment, a group with connections to Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David …
Apple Pay is coming up short for many people who attempt to use the mobile payment service at the register. A survey from research firm Phoenix Marketing International found that 68 percent of respondents who have used Apple Pay had encountered an issue when making an in-store purchase. The leading …
Opponents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules aren’t giving up, with a conservative advocacy group saying it has collected more than 540,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to overturn the agency’s action. American Commitment, a group with connections to Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David …
Apple Pay is coming up short for many people who attempt to use the mobile payment service at the register. A survey from research firm Phoenix Marketing International found that 68 percent of respondents who have used Apple Pay had encountered an issue when making an in-store purchase. The leading …
Как мы и ожидали, в честь своего 5-летия китайский производитель Xiaomi анонсировал сразу пять новинок, среди которых оказался и смарт-телевизор Xiaomi Mi TV с 55-дюймовым экраном. На первый взгляд телевизор очень напоминает предыдущую модель с 49-дюймовым экраном. Но это лишь внешнее сходство, а ее начинка значительно превосходит возможности предшественника. В Xiaomi TV имеется 55-дюймовый LCD-дисплей …