Mars rover Curiosity on the road again
After a quick stop for some scientific testing, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is on the move again and heading toward its ultimate destination – Mount Sharp. …
After a quick stop for some scientific testing, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is on the move again and heading toward its ultimate destination – Mount Sharp. …
Китайский производитель Coolpad анонсировал гибридное устройство под названием Magview 4, получившее не только превосходные технические характеристики, но и интересный набор аксессуаров. Новый девайс производства Coolpad можно смело отнести к классу смартпэдов благодаря Full HD 1080p дисплею с диагональю 5,9 дюймов производства Sharp. Новинка построена на процессоре nVidia Tegra 4, работающем …
Блог Поиска Mail.ru опубликовал пост, посвященный важности метатега Description для корректного представления сайта в поисковой выдаче. В общем случае сниппет (текстовый блок под заголовком и URL-ом результата, который содержит краткую информацию о найденной странице) формируется из пересечения пользовательского запроса и содержимого страницы. Однако, некоторые интернет-страницы устроены так, что поиску не всегда получается …
Some Twitter users were surprised Monday when they clicked a button to share content from third-party websites but instead downloaded a mysterious torrent file. read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to regulate only mobile apps that are medical devices and could pose a risk to a patient's safety if they do not function as intended. read more
BlackBerry's messenger app for Android and iPhone will not roll out this week as the company struggles to block an unreleased version of the Android app that affected its system. read more
Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts. read more
Facebook is moving ahead with plans to test a new mobile feature to entice more people to buy products while shopping on smaller devices such as iPhones. read more
Taiwan's HTC has infringed on two patents held by Nokia related to cellphones and tablets, a judge at a powerful U.S. trade court said Monday. read more
Microsoft last week painted Windows XP consumer and small business customers into an even smaller corner when it said it could not recommend that they upgrade to Windows 8.1, the update to Windows 8 slated to ship Oct. 18. read more
While SAP has made no secret of its desire to lure customers running Oracle databases over to its own HANA in-memory platform, any doubt that Oracle would fight back has been erased. read more
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who consistently ranks among the highest paid CEOs in the U.S., took an 18% pay cut this year. His total compensation, valued at $78.4 million, is down from $96.2 million in 2012. read more
Microsoft's latest Surface tablets boast many hardware and software improvements from their predecessors released last year. read more
Valve has announced its new SteamOS for the living room. Plus: Asteroid mining and Linux. And Fedora celebrates its tenth birthday! read more
The rendezvous and docking of a commercial cargo spacecraft with the International Space Station was rescheduled for Saturday at the earliest after a software glitch prevented the docking over the weekend. …
A bug bit Gmail on Monday and almost half of the webmail service's users are experiencing email delivery delays and problems downloading attachments. …
Apple recorded huge sales numbers for the iPhone 5S and 5C. Plus: The iPhone beats Android in touchscreen latencies. And FaceTime Audio is one of iOS 7's best kept secrets. read more
The group trying to buy BlackBerry for $4.7 billion could break up the company, wiping out its smartphone division while preserving BlackBerry’s secure network services used by large enterprises. But one analyst said he hopes that’s not the case. …
A bug bit Gmail on Monday and almost half of the webmail service's users are experiencing email delivery delays and problems downloading attachments. read more
The "Bring Your Own Device" trend can cause a lot of disruption, but not at New York Law School, the downtown Manhattan college where students, faculty and visitors have always been allowed to use any mobile device they want on the wireless network. But that doesn't mean anything goes. read …
Oracle has hyped its new 12c database as faster and more powerful than ones that have come before, and now it's highlighting the release's ability to easily serve up multiple databases of varying size and scope according to a particular user's needs. …
After nearly nine years in space, traveling 4.7 billion miles, NASA’s deep space comet hunter has come to the end of its mission. …
A consortium led by Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings has offered to acquire struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry. …
Next year, the number of cars with wireless charging will explode as auto makers representing 30% of the world’s vehicle production plan to include it in various models. …
Apple has sold a record-breaking nine million new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models, three days after their September 20 launch. In addition, more than 200 million iOS devices are now running the completely redesigned iOS 7, making it the fastest software upgrade in history. Both iPhone 5s and iPhone …
Компания Buffalo в октябре запланировала продажи портативного оптического привода DVSM-PTS58U3, который будет распространяться в трех вариантах расцветки: белом, черном и серебристом. Привод поддерживает работу в следующих режимах: 8x для DVD-R/+R/+RW, 6x для DVD-R(DL)/+R(DL)/-RW, 5x для DVD-RAM и 24x для CD-R/-RW. Особенностью новинки является два интерфейса USB. Порт стандарта USB 3.0 …