Представители администрации США сообщили о масштабной хакерской атаке, которой подверглись компьютеры Управления кадровой службы США (Office of Personnel Management, OPM), хранящие данные о более чем 4 млн бывших и нынешних госчиновников. Федеральное бюро ведёт расследование обстоятельств одной из крупнейших утечек информации в истории государственных служб США. …
Основатель компании Mojang Маркус «Нотч» Перссон предложил всем своим сотрудникам по $300 тысяч из личных средств, если они согласятся проработать на своих местах хотя бы полгода после того, как студию приобрела Microsoft. Об этом сообщает «Канобу» со ссылкой на выдержку из книги «Minecraft: Невероятная история Маркуса “Нотча” Перссона и игры, …
В прошлом месяце компания Google столкнулась с некоторыми проблемами, связанными со строительством в Маунтин-Вью, Калифорния, комплекса футуристичных стеклянных офисов, занимающих 204 387 квадратных метров земли. …
Использование устройств «Интернета вещей» (IoT) создает новые возможности для удаленной эксплуатации корпоративных сетей организаций, которые с пренебрежением относятся к собственной безопасности, следует из отчета компании OpenDNS. …
Японская компания Line Corp выпустила новое приложение для Android, которое позволит организовывать групповые разговоры с участием до 200 человек, сообщает The Wall Street Journal. …
На прошлой неделе поклонники продукции Apple обвиняли Google в том, что корпорация копирует идеи у «яблочной» компании. На этой неделе уже пользователи, отдающие предпочтение устройствам Google, утверждают, что купертиновцы бессовестно крадут уникальные особенности разработок поискового гиганта. …
В Сети появилось видео, демонстрирующее свежую прошивку на базе Android 5.1.1 Lollipop для Samsung Galaxy S6 и Galaxy S6 Edge. …
Новые сведения о грядущем Android-флагмане. …
9 movies that get IT (almost) right If you push a real spy for a few minutes, they’ll admit their life is nothing like the movies. Car chases are rare, beautiful opponents are few, and the itinerary is anything but exotic. It’s mainly sitting at a desk, clicking and typing. …
ARM, the CPU technology development firm that creates core designs rather than makes its own chips, has introduced a new hardware subsystem for building customized semiconductors for smart connected devices as well as a tooling suite to reduce time to create SoCs used in an IoT device. The ARM IoT …
If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley’s cream of the crop is going on a diet. To the list of perks you’re missing out on at the famous workers’ paradise, you can now …
If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley’s cream of the crop is going on a diet. To the list of perks you’re missing out on at the famous workers’ paradise, you can now …
There are some things that are uniquely American, like apple pie, fireworks on the Fourth of July … and the ridiculous hoopla that surrounds the Iowa caucuses, the first big electoral event in the run-up to the presidential election. On Friday, the state’s Democratic and Republican parties announced a new …
Drones aren’t normally something that airlines want anywhere near their planes, but European budget airline EasyJet is eyeing their use to speed up aircraft inspections. The company wants to use preprogrammed drones to inspect aircraft on the ground after events such as lightning strikes. Currently, such inspections are done visually …
Apple will begin taking a smaller cut of application revenue from some developers on its App Store, according to a report Friday from the Financial Times. Since the App Store opened in 2008, one of the costs of being an iOS developer has been handing over to Apple 30 percent …
After a backlash from critics, PayPal seems to be reconsidering a plan to give itself unilateral permission to ping its users with robocalls and text messages. The controversy started when PayPal recently indicated in proposed amendments to its user agreement and privacy policy its intention to engage in this type …
Taiwan held its 35th annual Computex trade show this week, and the event hasn’t aged well. There was little news to get excited about, the crowds were thinner, and there were no products on the show floor that generated the buzz seen in years past. To be sure, Computex has …
POMONA, Calif. – People cheered and clapped, yelled support and literally held their breath as the two-legged, humanoid robot from Team IHMC drove a car, drilled a hole in a wall and turned a valve. Then as the robot, nearly at the finish line, tried to step off a pile …
Because of slack buyer interest and other obstacles facing mobile payments in the U.S., Apple and other companies must inject new features and inducements to boost adoption. Apple is expected to announce at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which starts Monday, new technology to combine customer rewards with its existing …
Microsoft is now giving people a chance to settle arguments about whether they have a doppelganger once and for all with a new website called “Twins or Not.” The service, launched Friday, lets people upload a pair of photos to the web and get back a similarity score that ranges …
Facing life in prison, Ross Ulbricht is appealing his seven convictions for operating Silk Road, the illegal drugs online marketplace. Ulbricht’s lawyer, Joshua Dratel, has not decided on what issues he will base the appeal, according to Dratel’s office. Last week, Judge Katherine Forrest, who oversaw the jury case at …
With the upcoming release of Intel’s Skylake chips, there’s a lot to look forward to, including faster computers, fewer ports and wireless charging. At Computex in Taipei this week Intel shed more light on the new chip technology, a much hyped successor to Intel’s family of Broadwell family of chips. …
After the U.S. Congress approved what critics have called modest limits on the National Security Agency’s collection of domestic telephone records, many lawmakers may be reluctant to further change the government’s surveillance programs. The Senate this week passed the USA Freedom Act, which aims to end the NSA’s mass collection …
We’re now just a few days away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. So as usual, rumor-mongering is reaching fever-pitch. WWDC 2015 seems set to be a riot of color, including the iOS 9 release, Apple’s new music streaming service, some new Watch stuff, and much, much more. Here comes Tim …
My company, CrowdFlower, recently conducted a survey of data scientists. One of the things we asked was what they spend their time working on and what they like and don’t like doing. Incredibly, cleaning and wrangling data, the thing they dislike the most, is the thing they spend the most …
Skype is making it easier for users to ditch their desktop software, and use the Skype for Web beta instead. Skype for Web, which launched as a closed beta last fall, is now available as an open beta to all U.S. and U.K. users. It’s similar to the desktop version, …