В современном мире мы постоянно сталкиваемся с сенсорными дисплеями. У нас есть смартфоны, планшеты, носимая техника, ноутбуки с сенсорными экранами и много другое. При этом мы даже не задумываемся, что дисплей такого устройства может быть носителем многочисленных вирусов и бактерий. …
Holiday, Florida, is apparently tough on crime as an eighth-grade boy at Paul R. Smith Middle School was charged with a felony for changing the digital wallpaper on the school computer of a teacher he did not like. The student claimed it was just a prank, but the sheriff claimed …
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 …
Why is Android so different from Linux distros? Android is based on Linux, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the same as your average Linux distribution. A redditor wanted to know why Android is so different from the desktop distributions that we all know and love. Fcu5r5 asked his question: …
Instagram sees an opportunity for developing more complex apps for the Apple Watch and so has released the IGInterfaceDataTable open source library to make it easier to configure tables with multidimensional data. “Instead of flattening your data structures into an array, configure your watch tables using a data source pattern …
С 13 по 14 апреля в Токио проходит 9 международная конференция Unite 2015 Tokyo, на которой собираются разработчики со всего мира, чтобы не только познакомиться с последними новостями и тенденциями платформы Unity, но и поделиться опытом и перенять практические наработки в вопросах разработки для Unity. …
A company’s own employees are a significant factor in the majority of data breaches, either through malicious activity or avoidable mistakes, say two new studies, but companies aren’t doing enough to address this issue. According to a recent survey by CompTIA, human error accounts for 52 percent of root causes …
Oddball After online jobs/career marketplace Glassdoor issued its annual list of Oddball Real-World Job Interview Questions we followed up to see if they had additional ones more relevant to the enterprise Network and IT companies Network World writes about. Here’s what they came up with: To read this article in full or …
All models of Apple Watch quickly sold out when preorders began overnight last Friday, but now we have a better idea of which Watches were most popular. Apple This was the bestselling Apple Watch on Frday, Slice Intelligence said. According to e-retail research firm Slice Intelligence, 957,000 people in the …
If you own an Android phone and use Office 2013, you no longer need to hover over your laptop or buy a Bluetooth remote to advance slides in PowerPoint. Late last week, Microsoft released Office Remote for Android, a free app that lets you quickly access key Office 2013 features …
Trying Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10051 on a Windows Phone is like drizzling honey over granola: It can be an excruciatingly slow experience that rewards you with a sweet, yet nutritious update. Let’s say that again: Some aspects of the new build are slow. Even after a …
Создатель Mortal Kombat X Эд Бун (Ed Boon) поведал в Twitter, что вам не обязательно тратиться на DLC-персонажей, чтобы получить доступ к особым испытаниям. …
Hortonworks announced today6 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Budapest-based SequenceIQ, an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for Hadoop. The move marks the second acquisition for the four-year-old Hortonworks, which last year acquired Hadoop security specialist XA Secure. Hortonworks donated XA Secure’s IP to the …
Security expert Bruce Schneier has looked at and written about difficulties the Internet of Things presents — such as the fact that the “things” are by and large insecure and enable unwanted surveillance — and concludes that it’s a problem that’s going to get worse before it gets better. After …
Human, rather than machine intelligence, is the big drive behind Apple’s plan for Beats, with the company making huge investments in intelligent playlist curation to support its service when it launches in June. Clever curation UK digital music industry bible, MusicAlly, this morning reports the following: “Music Ally has learned …
Исследователи безопасности Джоел Сент-Джон (Joel St. John) и Николас Гуиго (Nicolas Guigo) разработали подобную руткиту систему, позволяющую обойти анти-читинговые механизмы в видеоиграх. …
Is there anything better than putting on a jacket you haven’t worn in a while and discovering $20 in the pocket? Well, we’ve pushed that small pleasure up a notch and added a twist: If you suddenly had a spare $1,000, and wanted to put it toward furthering your professional …
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. …