It’s way too early to call the Apple Watch a smash hit, but within minutes of the preorder kickoff at 3:01 a.m. Eastern, many models slipped from an estimated shipping date of April 24-May 8 to sometime in June. Now all Watches are sold out for the next 4–6 weeks. …
After 45 minutes of sitting in a vendor’s customer advisory board meeting, listening to the CEO deliver his standard strategy and road map presentation uninterrupted, the CIO of a major retailer had heard enough. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
China is deploying a tool that can be used to launch huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to enforce censorship. Researchers have dubbed it “the Great Cannon.” The first time the tool was seen in action was during the massive DDoS attacks that hit software development platform GitHub last month. The …
На форуме разработчиков Intel Developers Forum 2015, открывшемся 8 апреля в китайском городе Шэньчжэнь, корпорация Intel раскрыла один из наиболее любопытных секретов 14-нанометровой процессорной архитектуры Airmont, которая идёт на смену 22-нанометровой Silvermont. Оказывается, в новой архитектуре площадь на кристалле, занимаемая вычислительными ядрами x86, сократилась на 64 %. …
Brocade this week unveiled a campus switch and other enhancements to better support video and wireless traffic, improve management and extend software defined networking. The new switch is the ICX 7250. It supports up to eight 10G Ethernet ports for uplinks or stacking, and can be stacked 12-high into a …
China is deploying a tool that can be used to launch huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to enforce censorship. Researchers have dubbed it “the Great Cannon.” The first time the tool was seen in action was during the massive DDoS attacks that hit software development platform GitHub last month. The …
As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination approaches, a massive online archive has gone live containing 99,525 documents related to the Civil War-era commander-in-chief. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a joint digitization project sponsored by The University of Illinois and the Abraham Lincoln Association, is dedicated to identifying, …
A college degree in computer science is not necessarily needed to get up to speed in software development. Almost half of developers never received a degree in that discipline, according to a Stack Overflow survey that polled more than 26,000 persons in 157 countries this February. The Stack Overflow Developer …
How far does stolen data get before a breach is detected? That’s the question Bitglass asked — and answered — in a recent experiment. The Cambell, Calif.-based company went on the Dark Web and planted documents filled with mocked-up data realistic enough to pass as real until the point of …
If you’re a fan of larger smartphones such as the 5.7 in. Samsung Galaxy Note or the 5.6-in. iPhone 6 Plus, you may be in the market for a Bluetooth headset. These larger phones are incredibly useful, but can be (depending on your sense of proportion) a little large to …
Microsoft представила Nano Server — новую компактную версию операционной системы Windows Server 2016, оптимизированную для облаков и контейнеров Windows Server и Hyper-V. …
Сегодня стартовали предзаказы на Apple Watch. Жители 9 стран могут оформить покупку и получить свои часы в лучшем случае 24 апреля, а в худшем – через несколько месяцев. Несмотря на большой спрос, все модели часов доступны для заказа, но не в Китае. Богачи из Поднебесной активно раскупают Watch Edition. …
Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 released Linux Mint Debian Edition is not as well known as its Ubuntu-based sibling. But it offers the convenience of a rolling release along with the advantages of using Debian as its base. Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 has finally been released and you can …
Крупнейшая покупка Intel, по всей видимости, сорвалась. Руководство компании Altera, которую хотел приобрести американский процессорный гигант, сочло предложенную сумму недостаточно высокой. …
Установка нескольких операционных систем на персональный компьютер является привычным явлением. …
Enterprises will soon be able to do the kind of big data analysis that enables Amazon to recommend books, video games and toasters to its customers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Thursday at its cloud summit in San Francisco that it’s rolling out Amazon Machine Learning, a fully managed, cloud-based …
Смотрели «Звездные войны»? Хотя бы одну часть? Если да, то вам знаком метод управления чужим разумом при помощи жестов. Возможно, в будущем (не обязательно далеком-далеком) его смогут освоить владельцы техники Apple. Правда, влиять они будут не на слабые умы, а на технику. …
Не раньше августа получат некоторые модели Apple Watch покупатели, опоздавшие всего на час к началу приема предварительных заказов на новый гаджет. Об этом сообщило издание CNet. Прием заказов стартовал в полночь пятницы, 10 апреля, и запасы самых популярных моделей закончились буквально за час. В одни руки продают не больше двух …
The Apple Watch sold out almost immediately earlier today, making good on a promise by the company’s head of retail that supply would not be sufficient at the start. Ship times for the low-end Sport and mid-range Watch editions shifted to between four and six weeks within minutes of pre-order …
Lenovo выпустила довольно доступный смартфон под названием A1900. Аппарат можно приобрести менее чем за $60. При этом, в качестве мобильной платформы задействована система Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Что же касается комплектующих, то смартфон построен на базе процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Cortex-A7 – Spreadtrum SC7730 дополненный графическим ускорителем Mali-400. Объем оперативной памяти тут не велик – всего 512 Мб. На …
Light, golden, pleasing to the eye — no, it’s not a breakfast biscuit or supermodel — it’s Apple’s newest MacBook. That’s the good news. The bad news: Most impressions of Apple’s magic machine sound as if the reviewer continued on from yesterday’s piece about the new Apple Watch. Rinse. Repeat. …
Thin crowds greet Apple Watch in stores in Asia The arrival of the Apple Watch in stores across Asia on Friday failed to draw the same crowds that greeted the launch of the iPhone 6—a sign, perhaps, that Apple fans are prepared to queue overnight to buy, but not just …
The hacked French-language TV network TV5Monde might have made it easier for hackers to compromise its systems and social media accounts. One of its employees was interviewed about the hack on TV—in front of a wall of posters that appeared to contain usernames and passwords for the channel’s social media …
What is artificial intelligence (AI), and what is the difference between general AI and narrow AI? There seems to be a lot of disagreement and confusion around artificial intelligence right now. We’re seeing ongoing discussion around evaluating AI systems with the Turing Test, warnings that hyper-intelligent machines are going to …
Apple has yet another success on its hands. Sell out Think about it. It seems Apple has already sold out of a product that hasn’t officially shipped. And even though you can’t buy the product in an Apple Retail store, hundreds are already waiting in line just to take a …
Китайская компания Oppo выпустила смартфон A31, который пополнит ассортимент среднего звена. Новинка предлагается в корпусах белого и темно-синего и выполнен на основе металлической рамки, а фронтальная и тыльная панели защищены прочным стеклом, устойчивым к царапинам. Такое исполнение должно создавать ощущение от использования смартфона более дорогой ценовой категории. В Oppo A31 используется микрочип Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, в состав …