Air passengers entering or leaving the European Union could soon have their personal details stored and shared among EU countries, after lawmakers voted Wednesday to move forward with the proposal. The creation of the passenger name record (PNR) system, recording such details as who flew where, when, and how they …
Шел 2015 год… Apple на зло врагам, на радость инвесторам продавала десятки миллионов iPhone в квартал, попутно пытаясь объяснить своим многочисленным пользователям, что умные часы это круто, классно и полезно — получалось не очень хорошо. …
SAP’s SQL Anywhere has long served as an embeddable database option for mobile devices, but the rise of the Internet of Things has opened up a new world of possibilities, and SAP has lost no time in polishing the technology for that purpose. On Wednesday, in fact, the enterprise software …
Law enforcement agencies from 20 countries working together have shut down a major computer hacking forum, and U.S. officials have filed criminal charges against a dozen people associated with the website, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Darkode.com on Wednesday displayed a message saying the site and domain had been …
Китайская компания ZTE вслед за конкурирующей Xiaomi раскрыла статистику по продажам смартфонов в первом полугодии текущего года. …
Корпорация Google вложит полмиллиона долларов в оснащение беспроводными сенсорами кампуса Университета Карнеги – Меллон в Питтсбурге (штат Пенсильвания, США). Задача – изучить, как физические объекты воздействуют друг с другом, внешней средой и человеком, то есть понять, как работает “интернет вещей”. …
После истории с Heartbleed сообщество всерьёз обеспокоилось безопасностью open source программ. Вскоре запустили CII (Core Infrastructure Initiative), инициативу для аудита ключевых свободных программ. Спонсорами выступили все крупнейшие интернет-компании. Теперь Linux Foundation запустила вспомогательный Census Project: перепись системных утилит Linux, чтобы понять, каким из них нужна помощь в первую очередь. …
Asus Chromebook Flip review Chromebooks have been red-hot on Amazon’s bestseller list for a long time, with many people defecting to Chromebooks from Windows and OS X laptops. The Asus Chromebook Flip is a convertible device that sells for $250. Ars Technica has a full review of the Chromebook Flip. …
«Облачное» подразделение Amazon Web Services начало строительство в Северной Каролине, США, «ветряной фермы» – массива ветряных электростанций, общей мощностью 208 МВт. …
Здоровье пользователей становится одним из основных направлений исследования производителей мобильных устройств. …
Стоимость акций Twitter выросла на 8 процентов на Нью-Йоркской фондовой бирже после сообщения о том, что Google планирует купить сервис. Впоследствии оказалось, что информация, поступившая из непроверенного источника, не соответствует действительности. Об этом сообщает Financial Times (FT). …
Go ahead and update Java—or disable it if you don’t remember the last time you actually used it on the Web: Oracle’s latest patch, released Tuesday, fixes 25 vulnerabilities in the aging platform, including one that’s already being exploited in attacks. In addition to Java, Oracle also updated a wide …
Ранее мы писали, что производством следующим поколением смартфона Google Nexus будет заниматься китайская компания Huawei, а сейчас засветились некоторые его спецификации. Новые данные поступили в Твитере от Эвана Бласса. Он сообщил, что Huawei Google Nexus будет оборудован 5.7-дюймовым Quad-HD дисплеем, поддерживающий разрешение 2560 × 1440 точек. Также упоминается процессор – Qualcomm Snapdragon …
Intel’s second quarter numbers likely shadowed by falling PC sales Intel reports earnings Wednesday and it’s expected to be a lackluster quarter for the chip giant as PC sales continue to slow. Analysts expect revenue to be down 6 percent from last year, and profit is forecast to fall as …
When you check into Japan’s newest hotel, a mechanized velociraptor in a bellhop cap greets you at the front desk. “Thank you for your visitors,” it says in awkward English, as it gesticulates with its alarming claws and fangs. If it’s too off-putting, the other clerks, a female android in …
U.S. banks are steadily shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals to accept the new cards. Big retailers like WalMart have spent the last year installing expensive in-store payment terminals that will accept …
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Widespread iPhone and iPad adoption is influencing broader use of Apple products in the enterprise, namely desktops and laptops. One enterprise seeing this is University of Nevada at Reno, where academic freedom at the research university also means the freedom to choose an OS. This is …
Компания Samsung официально сообщила о выпуске смартфона Galaxy A8 на территории Китая. Стоит напомнить, что новинка оборудована 5.7-дюймовым дисплеем Super AMOLED с разрешением 1920 × 1080 точек и построена на базе 64-битного мобильного процессора с восемью вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 615. Объем оперативной памяти равен 2 Гб, в то время как …
Once regarded as a freewheeling discussion forum, Reddit is now struggling with creating rules to curb offensive and obscene content on the site, risking alienating a number of users, some of them concerned about protecting freedom of speech on the site. Reddit’s new CEO Steve Huffman on Tuesday called for …
Dashlane’s password manager now taps into the fingerprint scanner on Samsung devices for quick data entry to apps and websites. The new feature works with the Galaxy S5, S6, S6 Edge, Note 4, and Note Edge. I activated the feature on my Galaxy Note 4 with relative ease by following the …
Google is getting ready to roll out its own Bluetooth-based beacon technology, letting apps and web services pinpoint your exact location. Dubbed Eddystone (apparently after a U.K. lighthouse), the project is a cross-platform answer to Apple’s iBeacon technology that arrived in 2013. It allows small beacon devices to detect when …
Moto Maker is a nice differentiator for the Moto X; you can customize many aspects of how your phone looks. According to prolific leaker Evan Blass the next version of the Moto G, Motorola’s mid-range device, will get to join the party. He offered the following screenshot on Twitter. Evan Blass …
Windows Phone isn’t going away. You might think it was doomed, following Microsoft’s reorganization of its phone business just days ago, especially after Microsoft wrote down the value of the business. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put those fears to rest, however, in an interview with ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. Nadella has emphasized, time …
If you’re among the long-term Grooveshark users still mourning that controversial streaming service’s demise—along with the elaborate playlists you’d stored with it—you’ll be happy to hear about StreamSquid. This new streaming-music service is just as free as Grooveshark, which was recently sued out of existence. The difference is that StreamSquid’s …
It’s an all-too-common dilemma in today’s modern world: What do you do when you’re watching a livestream on your phone but need to switch to a different app? Twitch thinks it has a solution by borrowing an idea from TV—picture-in-picture. The latest update to Twitch for Android features a new “Pop-Out …
Uber has reached a confidential settlement with the family of a girl who was hit and killed by an Uber driver. In downtown San Francisco on New Year’s Eve of 2013, an Uber driver struck six-year-old Sophia Liu, killing her. The driver also hit her mother and brother. In a …