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Компания Rovio объявила о выходе Angry Birds 2 — сиквела популярной игры-головоломки для мобильных платформ, появившейся в 2009 году. …
Компания Rovio объявила о выходе Angry Birds 2 — сиквела популярной игры-головоломки для мобильных платформ, появившейся в 2009 году. …
Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge base when it starts work as a sales clerk next year at Yamada Denki, a major electronics retailer. …
В настоящее время разгон процессоров Intel, не имеющих разблокированного множителя, весьма затруднён. Множитель по понятной причине изменить не получится, а разгон путём изменения частоты BCLK зачастую затруднён или его поддержка со стороны системной платы вовсе отсутствует. Поэтому в среде оверкловеров зреет мнение, что разгон, как явление, умирает. Однако, как сообщает …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two men and eight companies with defrauding investors, many of them upstate New York residents, who purchased the companies’ securities and so-called “charitable gift annuities.” According to the SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. district court in Syracuse, New York, the alleged scheme raised …
Хакерам из России удалось проникнуть в компьютерную сеть Белого дома с помощью распространения вируса в Twitter, сообщает «Интерфакс». …
The U.S. Navy has been testing the use of 3D printers on its ships to produce custom drones outfitted for specialized missions. The project, being carried out by researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School, is investigating whether modern communications and fabrication technology can be combined to give sailors a new …
Adobe’s Digital Publishing suite has long offered a way for brands to publish content on tablets, but on Wednesday the company introduced a new generation of the software tweaked specifically to put such capabilities in the hands of ordinary business users. Adobe’s new Digital Publishing Solution was designed to help …
Журналисты британского издания Daily Mail обнаружили брешь в безопасности принца Уильяма, начавшего работать пилотом спасательной службы. …
Компания Bluboo оказалась в числе первых производителей из Китая, решивших использовать сапфировое стекло в своих устройствах. …
В условиях общего падения спроса на смартфоны дешевеют чипы, обеспечивающие этим устройствам мобильную связь четвертого поколения (LTE). О данной тенденции рассказало издание DigiTimes со ссылкой на отраслевые источники. …
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В последнее время Samsung работала над новыми, более тонкими сенсорами камеры, которые могут быть использованы в смартфонах нового поколения. …
Millions of Web users could be vulnerable to an attack on their computer’s DRAM via the Web, a surprising development that expands on a bug that has increasingly worried computer security experts. It has been known for several years that densely packed memory cells on computers are vulnerable to intentional …
Chromebooks versus Cloudbooks: Will Microsoft beat Google? Chromebooks have proven to be undeniably popular, with various models getting rave reviews on Amazon’s bestselling Chromebook list. But now a new wave of cheap Windows-based laptops called Cloudbooks are coming. Will the new Cloudbooks give Microsoft the upper hand and destroy the …
Several versions of the Android OS for smartphones have appeared on the global stage in recent years. One version, Cyanogen OS, has gathered publicity as well as prominent investors –including Twitter, Qualcomm and Foxconn — that could give it some staying power. In a July report, IDC analyst William Stofega, …
Offshore outsourcing firms that do most of their work in India remain the largest users of the H-1B visa for computer-related jobs, seemingly unaffected by the odds of the visa lottery, according to new data. With the exception of a few tech firms — notably Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle …
Java developers are slated to get REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) capability via jshell with next year’s planned Java 9 release. In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use enabled by REPL and Java’s setback with the lack of this capability. “Instead of having to construct and compile …
A Boulder, Colorado-based startup announced today that it has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to build the commercial version of the SlamData open-source project, helping businesses visualize semi-structured NoSQL data. SlamData, Inc. says that it’s using the SlamData project’s framework to create a native analytics platform for NoSQL information, …
Vector Watch Group is launching its new smartwatch, and the company’s not phoning it in. The plucky, London-based tech-jewelry maker is proudly showing off its entry into the nascent “wearables” market. It definitely takes a different direction to Apple. And at $250–$400, it’s not following Cupertino’s pricing script, neither. But it does …
Windows 10 is buzz-worthy, Adobe said Wednesday as it cited data from its social media metrics platform that showed positive vibes about the new OS. Measuring 3-plus million mentions harvested from blogs, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere over the last 30 days, Adobe’s Social analytics pegged the most upbeat slice …
Компания LG анонсировала спортивную беспроводную гарнитуру LG Tone Active, сообщается в пресс-релизе пришедший в редакцию IT Новостей. Беспроводная гарнитура LG Tone Active может работать со всеми устройствами, поддерживающие технологию Bluetooth, будь то смартфоны, планшеты или музыкальные плееры, оснащенные беспроводным модулем связи. Беспроводная гарнитура LG Tone Active водонепроницаема, поэтому ее владелец сможет …
Obama wants to boost U.S. supercomputing power With China currently sitting at the top of the supercomputing heap—its Tianhe-2 computer has been considered the world’s most powerful for the last two years—U.S. President Barack Obama is looking to step up American efforts via the new National Strategic Computing Initiative. Set …
Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge base when it starts work as a sales clerk next year at Yamada Denki, a major electronics retailer. …
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CC BY 2.0 There’s never a good time to run into software bugs, but some times are worse than others – like during a mission to space. Spacecraft of all shapes and sizes rely heavily on software to complete their objectives. But those …
Motherboard security journalist, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has never had any love for Apple but in the last few days he has found 950 million reasons to dump Android for an iPhone. “As you might have heard, a security researcher revealed on Monday that a series of bugs deep inside Android’s source …
The cyberespionage group that stole the personal records of millions of Americans from U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has also reportedly breached United Airlines. The data stolen from United includes flight manifests, which contain information on passengers, their travel origins and destinations, Bloomberg …