Адвокаты малазийского игрока в покер Вэя Сенга Фуа (Wei Seng Phua), подозреваемого властями США в организации подпольного тотализатора, потребовали от суда признать все собранные против него улики недействительными. …
Симулятор пандемии Plague Inc для мобильных платформ стали скачивать вдвое чаще за прошедшие две недели. Автор игры считает, что она резко набрала популярность из-за участившихся новостей о случаях заболевания лихорадкой Эбола, передает портал VG247. …
Антимонопольный комитет Украины (АМКУ) оштрафовал компанию Укртелеком, принадлежащую группе СКМ Рината Ахметова, на 400 тыс грн за нарушение законодательства о защите экономической конкуренции на региональных рынках услуг местной телефонной связи. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба АМКУ. …
Китайская компания Xiaomi заняла третье место среди крупнейших в мире производителей смартфонов, о чем сообщает южнокорейское издание «Чосон ильбо» со ссылкой на данные IHS iSuppli. …
В Китае компания Geak представила свои новые “умные” часы Geak Watch II. Новинка получила круглый дисплей и изысканный дизайн классических часов. …
Facebook has released an open-source tool for monitoring operating system state changes across very large infrastructures, which could help engineers quickly diagnose performance and security issues. The tool, called Osquery, allows administrators to run SQL-based queries on operating system characteristics stored in a high-performance database, collecting data such as running …
The notoriety that comes with taking credit for a data breach is alluring. Declaring a successful data breach can suddenly bring a lot of attention, which is why posting bogus data is attractive. For companies and organizations, it’s a real headache, since an allegation of a breach can immediately pose …
The Internet2 this week said it can now demonstrate a nationwide virtualized multitenant network that operates as multiple discrete, private networks. Virtualization allows Internet2 to be partitioned into isolated “slices” that can accomodate multiple users and their applications, as if they had their own private network. This advancement is enabled …
Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that “almost” concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions. The company announced in July that it would let go about 14 percent of its workforce, the largest set of job cuts in its history, but instead of …
High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made headlines when he said artificial intelligence research is a danger to humanity, but researchers from some of the top U.S. universities say he’s not so far off the mark. “At first I was surprised and then I thought, ‘this is not completely crazy,’” said Andrew …
Microsoft has switched on special search features in Office 365 designed to help IT administrators keep tabs on employees’ spreadsheets, a task becoming more difficult and more important in enterprises. The new capabilities are aimed at Office 365 customers who are having a hard time manually maintaining a comprehensive and …
The company behind CurrentC, an in-store mobile payment system backed by some of the biggest retailers in the U.S., attempted on Wednesday to play down a growing controversy over whether its backers could accept Apple Pay. Dekkers Davidson, CEO of Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), said its members, which include retailers …
There are two ways to think about #GamerGate. The short version is that it’s a loosely-organized mob of so-called “gamers” rallied around a Twitter hashtag focused on the harassment of women — primarily, but not only, female game developers — under the pretense of pushing for higher standards in video …
The Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a consortium of 58 major U.S. retailers whose mobile payment network will take on the new Apple Pay early in 2015, today held a hastily-organized news conference to address questions about a hack that pilfered consumer email addresses. MCX CEO Dekkers Davison argued that the …
Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that “almost” concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions. The company announced in July that it would let go about 14 percent of its workforce, the largest set of job cuts in its history, but instead of …
As the U.S. has discovered, it only takes a few cases of Ebola to turn things upside down. Months into the outbreak in West Africa, federal and state officials are still fighting over quarantine policies and travel bans, and reacting in disruptive fashion to the threat. Elementary schools were closed …
Apple’s new iPhones are poised to have a very strong holiday sales season in the U.S., said Kantar’s Carolina Milanesi today. “If all I have is the 12 days of sales [in September], what the iPhone 6 was able to do was quite remarkable,” said Milanesi, chief of research and …
As small businesses make their Wi-Fi more enterprise-like, Ruckus Wireless wants to meet them where they live with that hallmark of consumer tech, the mobile app. On Wednesday, Ruckus reached beyond its familiar service provider and large-business territory with Xclaim, a whole new brand aimed squarely at small businesses, those …
Cybercriminals have a new tool to make the most of stolen credit card details before payment processors detect the fraud, security researchers warn. A Web-based application called the Voxis Platform is being advertised on underground forums as a tool for cashing out money from stolen credit cards by automating fraudulent …
Hoping to enlarge its pool of corporate customers to include the enterprise market, startup BitYota will soon offer its data warehouse service on the Microsoft Azure cloud, thanks to a partnership between the two companies. “Microsoft is truly partnering with us, not just providing a compute infrastructure,” said Graham Summers, …
HP today announced a new 3D printing technology called Multi Jet Fusion that it said will enable mass production of parts with a technology traditionally reserved for rapid prototyping. The new industrial 3D printer, about the size of a washing machine, is 10 times faster and 50% less expensive than …
In my first impressions of Google’s Nexus 9 tablet, I neglected to mention one aspect of the Android 5.0 software that really jumps out at you at first glance: a brand new Gmail app that follows the Lollipop design aesthetic. Yup — even with all the focus on its new …
The Cleveland Clinic is beginning a pilot program with a cloud service based on IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to aid its research into new cancer treatments. IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty, speaking Wednesday at the 2014 Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, said researchers at the clinic will use …
Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based start-up that wants to provide daily images of every spot on earth, lost 26 micro satellites when an Orbital Sciences rocket exploded shortly after lift-off Tuesday. The Antares rocket burst into flames seconds after rising into the sky from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, …
Since 2011 a group of attackers has been targeting companies that operate industrial control systems with a backdoor program called BlackEnergy. “Multiple companies working with ICS-CERT have identified the malware on Internet-connected human-machine interfaces (HMIs),” the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), a division of the U.S. Department …
Europe’s top court is set to answer a question that seems to be as old as the Internet: Are IP addresses personal data? Germany’s Federal Court of Justice was scheduled to rule on this Tuesday, but instead decided to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice of the …