A little over a year ago, bloggers were chin-wagging about a rumored Yahoo-Bing breakup. Mentioned too, was Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer and her secret love…for search projects “Fast Break” and “Curveball.” Fast forward to yesterday, Mayer again confirmed the alliance with Microsoft exists and everything is great. However…bloggers know something’s …
Flashback to the early 1980s, when this pilot fish is working for a big consulting firm — and he’s on contract at a very lucrative account. “The salesman for this account was senior at our firm, and always looking for more commission–er, always looking to aid the bottom line,” says …
Tips for boosting your personal brand Image by Shutterstock Your personal brand is more than just a buzz phrase. It’s how you present your unique set of skills, knowledge and talent in a way that’s sure to catch the eye of a hiring manager or recruiter. Here are six ways …
Every one of the 32 NFL teams has 60 players that often receive medical care from hospitals or other facilities they’ve never visited before. So imagine how difficult it might be to share an electronic medical record (EMR) when you’re a player on the visiting team and you need treatment …
A new legislation in California aims to put curbs on the data Uber Technologies and other ride-hailing companies can collect and disclose. The move comes in the wake of reports that Uber has a tool that apparently lets its employees track the location of customers that have requested car service. …
Марк Цукерберг пообещал: нуждающиеся жители Европы в будущем получат доступ к бесплатному интернету. Создатель социальной сети Facebook сообщил, что над Internet.org он работает по 50-60 часов в неделю. В последнее время появились новые технологии соединения, которые Цукерберг использует в своем проекте. По его словам, Internet.org даст ряд преимуществ для пользователей, которые не могут себе …
Компания LG поделилась официальным изображением нового флагманского телефона LG G4. Его изображение опубликовано на официальной странице компании в социальной сети Facebook. 28 апреля пройдет специальное мероприятие, где состоится официальная публичная презентация нового флагмана G4. Но уже сегодня LG решила заинтересовать поклонников. На официальной странице в Facebook уже выложено фото флагмана. Смартфон показан с задней стороны, он …
More than two dozen U.S. government websites should be urgently upgraded to use encryption, as whistleblowers are potentially at risk, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. At least 29 websites that can be used for reporting abuse and fraud don’t use encryption, the ACLU said in a letter sent …
Google on Thursday announced it will shut down support for Chrome on Windows XP at the end of the year. “We will continue to provide regular updates and security patches to Chrome on XP through the end of 2015,” said Mark Larson, Chrome’s director of engineering, in a short blog …
A lawsuit filed in California against Uber Technologies by a woman who alleged she was raped by a driver while taking a trip in Delhi appears to be heading to mediation. Lawyers for the woman, who is not identified in her complaint, said they had met with lawyers for Uber …
AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers, reversing a strategy it embarked on three years ago with its acquisition of SeaMicro. AMD delivered the news Thursday as it announced financial results for the quarter. Its revenue slumped 26 percent from this time last year to $1.03 billion, …
До Іршавського райвідділу міліції звернувся із заявою 32-річний мешканець с. Кушниця. Заявник повідомив про те, що невідома Інтернет-шахрайка виманила від нього гроші в сумі 6000 гривень. …
Уже достаточно давно бытует мнение, что мобильные камеры вытесняют специализированные устройства для создания фотографий. Наконец эти предположения получили статистическое обоснование. …
Покрити увесь Київ, швидкісний трамвай та метро безкоштовним доступом до Wi-Fi міській владі не вдалося, тому вона зосередить свої зусилля на міських лікарнях. Близько 150 медичних закладів столиці вже скоро зможуть надавати пацієнтам більше розваг під час лікування, повідомляє “Українська правда”. …
Как сообщает ОСО ГУ МВД Украины в Запорожской области, 14 апреля в Энергодарский горотдел милиции за помощью обратилась 37-летняя жительница Каменско-Днепровского района, которая накануне разместила в интернете объявление о продаже поросят. …
The Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking a multimillion dollar refund from Apple over a failed project to provide 650,000 students with iPads they could use at home. LA Unified approached Apple in 2013 about using its tablets as part of an ambitious project to provide every student, teacher …
Some new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone displays won’t auto-rotate properly, according to early customers on user forums. Less than a week after the device first went on sale, dozens of customers — and perhaps more — have complained that an image presented on the display from an app or …
AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers, reversing a strategy it embarked on three years ago with its acquisition of SeaMicro. AMD delivered the news Thursday as it announced financial results for the quarter. Its revenue slumped 26 percent from this time last year to $1.03 billion, …
У Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge нашли еще одну неполадку. Американские владельцы операторских модификаций жалуются проблемы с автоматической сменой ориентации экрана. …
Wikileaks has published a searchable database of thousands of emails and documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment that were leaked in late 2014 after the studio was attacked by hackers. The database is the first time the information, which made up one of the largest and more serious breaches in U.S. …
For 50 years, Moore’s Law has paved the way for faster, smaller and cheaper devices. The observation focuses on the economics and scaling of silicon chips, which are at the heart of computing devices. Loosely translated, predictions in Moore’s Law mean that every 18 to 24 months, you can buy …
Компания MediaTek, чьи чипы в настоящее время используются во многих китайских смартфонах, представила два новых процессора, разработанных специально для установки в планшетные компьютеры. MT8163 и MT8735 используют по четыре ядра и 64-битную архитектуру, однако между ними имеются и значительные отличия. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against 10 individuals involved in a scheme to offer and sell penny stock in undisclosed “blank check” companies bound for reverse mergers while misrepresenting to the public that they were promising startups with business plans. Blank check companies generally have no …
Security experts today called for Windows users to immediately patch one of the 26 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed two days ago. SANS’ Internet Storm Center (ISC) raised its threat level to Yellow as a signal of the seriousness of the bug, which is now being actively used in “Internet wide” scans …
When you’re strapping on the latest smart watch or ogling an iPhone, you probably aren’t thinking of Moore’s Law, which for 50 years has been used as a blueprint to make computers smaller, cheaper and faster. Without Moore’s Law it’s quite possible that new types of computers like Microsoft’s HoloLens, …
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a tiny wireless trackpad that can be worn on a thumbnail. Called NailO, the prototype trackpad is similar to the stick-on nails sometimes used as a fashion accessory. It attaches to the user’s thumb and can be controlled by running a …