The U.S. government is offering multimillion-dollar rewards for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of two alleged Russian hackers. Both were indicted in U.S. courts for their roles in “Carder.ru,” a website and international enterprise that principally operated out of Las Vegas. The site was taken down by …
Finding GPS unreliable in certain situations, the U.S. government is placing a high priority on developing a more reliable real-time position tracking technology whose signals won’t disappear in blind spots and can’t be jammed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing “radically” new technologies to deliver a more advanced …
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against Apple over the amount of storage available in mobile devices that come with iOS 8. The district court in San Jose, California, threw out the proposed class-action suit on Wednesday after Apple filed a motion saying the plaintiffs failed to back up …
Toshiba today announced the development of the first 48-layer, three-dimensional flash memory. Based on a vertical stacking technology that Toshiba calls BiCS (Bit Cost Scaling), the new flash memory stores two bits of data per transistor, meaning it’s a multi-level cell (MLC) flash chip. It can store 128Gbits (16GB) per …
В сети появилась информация о намерении компании Waner Bros. Interactive Entertainment оставить PC геймеров без традиционного релиза Batman: Arkham Knight. По неизвестным причинам руководство отказалось выпускать игру в коробке. …
Парламент Великобритании собирается потратить $1,49 миллиона для обеспечения своих коллег ноутбуками и планшетами. …
PDFs are handy for displaying articles and books in a well-designed format. But for data analysis? Not so much. Yet there are times where data you’d like to analyze is only available in a table within a PDF — especially frustrating since odds are, that data began in a much …
U.S. wireless carriers today announced off-contract prices ranging from $600 to $685 for the new 32 GB Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone and $100 to $129 more in premium pricing for its stylish cousin, the Edge, with both coming to buyers on April 10. April 10 is also the day the …
Не секрет, что Spartan будет браузером по умолчанию в Windows 10. Он использует модифицированную версию движка Trident, который был почти полностью переписан для поддержки новых веб-стандартов, так что это совершенно новый браузер. …
The financial news for Blackberry is potentially bad this week, as it has been for most of the past few years. Some analysts are predicting that the Canadian company will post losses of as much as 7 cents per share, though the consensus seems to be closer to 3 cents. …
With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, the free Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Express for Web editions, and …
As a further sign of its efforts to open up its platforms and support customers with mixed shops, Microsoft today updated Azure Site Recovery to allow it to be used with VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical servers using Azure in addition to the Hyper-V VMs it already supports. The …
Microsoft has again changed the lexicon it wants others to use to describe the apps that run on Windows. In a presentation last week at WinHEC, Don Box, a Microsoft distinguished engineer, spelled out the new labels: “Windows apps” and “Windows desktop applications.” “In Windows 10, we have this notion …
Facebook doesn’t want to simply build a virtual reality game where users put on a headset and pretend they’re flying a jet or commanding a tank. Facebook engineers and scientists say they can blur the lines between virtual reality (VR) and reality. During today’s keynote on the second day of …
Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS. Facebook says ComponentKit is a native Objective-C++ view framework with a declarative, functional approach to building a UI. “We use this inside of our own Facebook [iOS] app to power News Feed and the other products within the app,” said James …
IBM намерена делиться своими технологиями с китайскими производителями и стимулировать тем самым развитие местной технологической индустрии. Об этом сообщает агентство “Рейтер” со ссылкой на генерального директора американской корпорации Вирджинию Рометти (Virginia Rometty). …
Corporate travelers should be warned that a Wi-Fi router commonly used in hotels is easily compromised, putting guests passwords at risk and opening up their computers to malware infections and direct attacks. The good news is that there is a patch for the flaw, but there is no guarantee affected …
Известная своей консервативностью компания Nintendo долгое время игнорировала такие перспективные возможности, как платные DLC и условно-бесплатная бизнес-модель, а также мобильные проекты. …
В мобильный мессенджер Facebook планируется добавить новые опции, пишет The Wall Street Journal. В частности, это бронирование, отслеживание онлайн-заказов и пересылка пользовательских видео. …
The first glance at the future of Office for Windows is here, in the form of the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. It’s the initial public iteration of the suite that will be released sometime in the second half of 2015, so at this point it’s very much …
Корпорация Panasonic сообщила о том, что её североамериканское подразделение открывает безвозмездный доступ к ряду технологий и разработок с целью ускорения развития инфраструктуры «Интернета вещей» (IoT). …
Consumers seem to be coming out on top as a growing number of European telecom and cable operators offer discounted mobile subscriptions as a bonus for choosing other services. Bundles with broadband, telephony and TV across fixed and mobile networks are becoming increasingly important for operators across the continent. The …
Слухи о продаже компании AMD возникали в прессе неоднократно, но пока ни один из них не подтвердился. Окажется ли правдой новая информация о том, что Samsung намерена приобрести американского производителя процессоров, пока неизвестно. …
Nigeria, Africa’s largest telecom market, has joined the list of countries on the continent that will impose prison sentences on officials at mobile operators that continually fail to deliver quality services to customers. Tanzania and Zambia are among African countries imposing prison sentences on mobile operators who do not provide …
The White House has released a memo intended to give clarity over how businesses may use the temporary L-1 work visa, a document derided by critics of the H-1B visa. The memo was previewed on Monday by President Obama who, speaking at an economic development conference, said the changes “could …
Standard consumer SSDs will increase up to an astounding 10TB of storage, thanks to a new type of 3D NAND flash memory that Intel and Micron introduced Thursday morning. The two companies, longtime joint partners in NAND flash development, said the breakthrough isn’t to make larger flash chips, but thicker …