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Samsung приступила до розробки дисплеїв для мобільників з надвисокою роздільною здатністю 11K. Це число значить, що по горизонталі в нього буде 11000 пікселів, тоді як популярний нині стандарт має 1920 точок. …
Samsung приступила до розробки дисплеїв для мобільників з надвисокою роздільною здатністю 11K. Це число значить, що по горизонталі в нього буде 11000 пікселів, тоді як популярний нині стандарт має 1920 точок. …
The 64-bit CPU era has ushered in a raft of innovations and computing models that were impossible on a 32-bit system. With its 4GB memory limit, and about 1GB lost to the OS, 32-bit systems couldn’t do very much and often ran at about 5% utilization. But with 64-bit CPUs, …
Чтобы рекламные объявления не мешали играть в очередную игру на смартфоне или планшете, не обязательно получать рут-доступ. Коммерческие сообщения, которые всплывают на экране, можно легко убрать одним кликом на любом мобильном аппарате. …
Undersea cables carry virtually all transoceanic Internet data these days, replacing satellites as the preferred medium. Google and some telecom companies invested in one of them, called FASTER, that will stretch 9,000 kilometers between the U.S. and Japan and is due to go into operation next year. With six fiber-pairs …
Сайт «ВКонтакте» почти безнадежно застрял в 2007. С тех пор он почти не подвергался редизайну и все еще выглядит как ранний Facebook. Никакого Flat. Разработчики обещали осовременить сайт в этом году, но зачем ждать, если вы можете сделать это сами уже сейчас? С помощью расширения Styles для Chrome и Firefox. …
В Android, как и в любой другой мобильной операционной системе, многие функции не лежат на поверхности, а скрыты где-то в настройках. Иной раз мы не пользуемся полезными фичами только потому, что не знаем о их существовании. В этой статье собраны 10 простых возможностей, которые мало кто использует, однако после знакомства …
В то время как практически каждый производитель выпускает флагманские смартфоны с минимальным объемом памяти в 32 ГБ, Apple продолжает продавать iPhone на 16 ГБ. И, судя по всему, не собирается менять порядок вещей. Почему компания остается при своей стратегии и почему ей стоит отказаться от нее. …
Количество гаджетов и аксессуаров для них растет с каждым днем. Большинство подобных устройств, полезно и удобно. Но есть и такие, которые могут оказаться не только бессмысленными, но даже опасными. …
Владельцы смартфонов iPhone чаще других меняют свои мобильные устройства. Об этом говорится в отчете аналитической компании Gallop. …
With the help from the city of Abu Dhabi, IBM will offer its Watson-based data analysis services to the Middle East and North Africa. Under the partnership, the Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company Mubadala will introduce Watson to its network of regional companies, entrepreneurs, start ups and application developers, …
It takes a plow the size of a small house, a robot the size of a truck and a purpose-built ship to install Google’s latest oceanic infrastructure project—a super-fast submarine Internet cable linking the U.S. and Japan. The US$300 million FASTER cable system, backed by Google and East Asian telecom …
After halting the service due to an influx of spam, Google is ready to open Map Maker again, with changes that hand much of the control back to users. Map Maker lets people update the information in Google Maps to make it more accurate. The service will reopen in phases …
When voters go to the polls in next year’s presidential election, could a candidate’s stance on the sharing economy factor into their decision? In a speech Monday focused on economic policy, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out on what she saw as the double-edged sword that characterizes startups like Uber, …
Smartwatch maker Pebble will start manufacturing its new Pebble Time Steel this week and begin shipping the device at the end of this month. People who backed the smartwatch’s crowdfunding campaign early on will have theirs shipped out the last week of July, the company said. People who contributed later …
Hard on the heels of the publication of the latest Top 500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, IBM and Nvidia on Monday announced they have teamed up to launch two new supercomputer centers of excellence to develop the next generation of contenders. Created as part of IBM’s supercomputing contract …
A U.S. government agency will start its third attempt to develop voluntary privacy standards for an emerging area of technology, this time with a series of meetings on drone privacy scheduled to begin Aug. 3. The U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration has already hosted similar discussions on mobile app …
Amazon is doing its best to jack up sales by inventing a new shopping holiday, but one thing it hasn’t invented is a new idea. The e-commerce giant is trying to get people pumped up about Prime Day this Wednesday, but its only the latest example of a company manufacturing …
Oracle took another step forward in its efforts to bolster its cloud offerings Monday with the launch of two new products designed to help companies conduct their entire order-fulfillment processes in the cloud. Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud are both extensions of the company’s Supply …
Microsoft is attempting to woo businesses with its HoloLens augmented reality headset, demonstrating how the device could be used to aid in 3D modelling. The company paired HoloLens with the Maya Autodesk 3D modelling software during a demonstration Monday at its Worldwide Partners Conference in Orlando, Florida. Like previous HoloLens …
Staff from the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint report analyzing the significant volatility in the U.S. Treasury market …
Microsoft has fused a number of its new data processing technologies into a single package designed to help organizations get more value from their growing piles of data. The new suite, called Cortana Analytics, is designed to “democratize big data,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during the opening keynote of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a settlement with a Brooklyn man who entered into a cooperation agreement to help the agency mount evidence in an insider trading scheme in which illegal tips were passed via napkins or post-it notes at Grand Central Terminal. The SEC last year charged …
Five lightweight Linux desktops There are many different desktop environments for Linux, but not all of them work with older or less powerful hardware. Fortunately, there are also plenty of lightweight desktop environments for Linux. The Register has a helpful roundup of the top five lightweight desktop distributions. Scott Gilbertson …
A sophisticated group of hackers known for targeting military, government and media organizations is currently using an exploit for a vulnerability in Java that hasn’t been patched by Oracle. The zero-day exploit was recently observed by researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro in attacks against the armed forces of an …
Chinese networking giant Huawei has bought the software-defined networking (SDN) division of Irish telecom software maker Amartus. Amartus’ senior team and product staff in Ireland will join Huawei, which sees the acquisition as a way to expand its investment in research and development in Ireland and Europe, it said in …
Recently breached surveillance software maker, Hacking Team, had access to three different exploits for previously unknown vulnerabilities in Flash Player. All of them are now out in the open, putting Internet users at risk. Milan-based Hacking Team develops and sells surveillance software to government agencies from around the world. On …