Victims of the CoinVault ransomware might be able to decrypt their files with a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab together with the Dutch police. The tool can be found at https://noransom.kaspersky.com. The application uses decryption keys found by the Dutch police as part of an investigation. Ransomware like CoinVault …
Популярный мобильный браузер UC Browser, который используется миллионами пользователей на устройствах под управлением iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, Java и Blackberry OS, теперь доступен и для пользователей персональных компьютеров на Windows. …
Dell is giving Linux fans a laptop to call their own with the XPS 13 Developer Edition. The hardware is nearly identical to the Windows version that launched in January, including the edge-to-edge display that essentially fits a 13-inch laptop in an 11-inch body. But instead of Microsoft’s operating system, …
Американские исследователи из Pew Research опубликовали исследование, согласно которому дети богатых родителей в США имеют тенденцию к отказу от Facebook. …
Исследовательская компания Gartner опубликовала обновленный прогноз по мировой ИТ-отрасли. Эксперты ожидают, что расходы на ИТ в нынешнем году упадут на 1,3% из-за высокого курса доллара. …
На данный момент большинство владельцев Oculus Rift и аналогичных устройств использует виртуальную реальность исключительно для игр, однако возможности этой технологии куда более обширны. …
The U.S.’s recent denial of Intel chips for China’s fastest supercomputer could derail an upgrade to double the machine’s processing power. China’s Tianhe-2 is the world’s fastest supercomputer with a theoretical peak speed of 54.9 petaflops. It was scheduled to be expanded, and reach a new peak speed of 100 …
Last week, I was horrified to discover a problem with my vulnerability scanner. The product I use relies on a user account to connect to our Microsoft Windows servers and workstations to check them for vulnerable versions of software, and that user account had never been configured properly. As a …
10 апреля стартовал прием предзаказов на смарт-часы Watch; 24 апреля новый продукт Apple поступит в продажу. Стоит ли их покупать? В этой статье мы приведем три аргумента из лагеря скептиков. …
Microsoft presented a vision of how industrial robots could work more closely with people by harnessing the Internet of Things, cloud networking and 3D sensing technologies, linked through Windows platforms. In a demonstration at Hanover Messe, an industrial fair in Germany this week, Microsoft and industrial robot maker Kuka Robotics …
Transforming robot gets stuck in nuclear reactor The ability to change shape hasn’t saved a robot probe from getting stuck inside a crippled Japanese nuclear reactor. On Friday, the utility sent in the pipe-crawling, snake-like robot, which can transform itself into several configurations depending on the terrain, to determine the …
The new net neutrality rule was published over the weekend in the Federal Register, the daily journal of U.S. government actions, raising the possibility of a spate of lawsuits from broadband companies that oppose the rule. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in February to reclassify broadband as a …
If you’re waiting to see what the next LG flagship phone looks like, wait no longer. Here’s the LG G4, in all its leather-clad glory. It’s no clone. The secret site the images were snarfed from didn’t give much of a clue about the hardware specs — what was there …
This pilot fish is the go-to guy for antivirus issues at his company, and he’s painfully aware that there are a few gaps in the protection. “I can attest to the fact that there have been many emails, phone calls and one-on-one meetings with the department head to discuss the …
Every programmer has a favorite language or two. JavaScript lovers are the luckiest these days because their language is taking over the Internet and the Internet is taking over the world. Those whose hearts reside elsewhere in the programming language world, however, are stuck. They can either stay on the …
It’s a recent Saturday and I’m searching for Spider-Man — the comics version — at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. Entering the busy shop across the street from the famous university, one must shuffle carefully through the entrance to avoid bumping into other shoppers. Navigating in Seattle: New …
Ранее уже обсуждалась информация о том, что китайская компания Meizu работает над профессиональными наушниками, которые создаются вместе с известным австрийским аудиопроизводителем AKG. Предполагалось, что они должны улучшить звук в смартфонах Meizu M1 и MX4, которые и сами по себе обладают привлекательными аудиовозможностями. Напомним, что недавно вице-президент китайского производителя Ли Хан (Li Han) подтвердил, что Meizu и …
The ability to change shape hasn’t saved a robot probe from getting stuck inside a crippled Japanese nuclear reactor. Tokyo Electric Power will likely leave the probe inside the reactor housing at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex north of Tokyo after it stopped moving. On Friday, the utility sent a robot …
Faced with a highly competitive market, U.S. wireless operator Sprint is now offering to deliver and set up phones, tablets and other connected devices for free at homes, offices and other locations chosen by the customer. The offer is currently limited to eligible upgrade customers, but starting September, new customers …
The new net neutrality rule of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was published over the weekend to the Federal Register, the daily journal of U.S. government actions, raising the possibility of a spate of lawsuits from broadband companies that oppose the rule. The FCC decided in a 3-2 vote in …
Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database. Opening up the code could give enterprise customers more input into what new features are added into future versions. For Pivotal, the move provides an entry to …
An otherwise unremarkable hacking group likely aligned with China appears to be one of the first to have targeted so-called air-gapped networks that are not directly connected to the Internet, according to FireEye. The computer security firm released a 69-page technical report on Sunday on the group, which it calls …
Here’s one of the most frustrating facts of IT life: Desired information exists in a database, but there are so many limitations on its use that it becomes almost pointless. Welcome to local inventory online. Here’s the goal, from the shopper’s perspective. It’s 8 p.m. and something breaks. Maybe it’s …
Норвежская компания Elliptic Labs разрабатывает технологию для управления телефонами жестами – не по экрану, а на расстоянии. …
Скорее всего, каждый ценитель высоких технологий знает о том, что агрессивная реклама в данной сфере — не такая уж и большая редкость. …
Власти Китая создали новое кибероружие, и если «Великий китайский файрвол» (Great Firewall) служит средством обороны, то новый инструмент — средством нападения, сообщила исследовательская лаборатория Citizen Lab при Университете Торонто в Канаде. Аналитики назвали новую систему «Великой китайской пушкой» (Great Cannon). …