Backers of an Internet sales tax aren’t taking no for an answer, with supporters continuing to push the U.S. Congress to pass legislation this year. Groups and lawmakers in favor of a widespread online sales tax have stepped up pressure for Congress to pass a bill allowing states to collect …
The processor architecture behind Apple’s A7 and A8 chips is getting an incremental upgrade. ARM, whose processor designs are used in most mobile devices, is adding features to its ARMv8.1-A architecture that could improve the security and speed of chips. The new architecture is an upgrade from the existing ARMv8-A, …
Sick of typing those annoying, and barely readable, letters and numbers to prove to a website that you’re not a robot or a spammer? You may be in luck. Google announced Wednesday that the company is trying to get rid of those annoying tasks – called CAPTCHAs, which is short …
Apple’s larger iPhone 6 Plus grabbed 41% of all U.S. sales of smartphones with screens 5.5-in. and larger during a recent three-month stretch, even though it was available — and only in short supply — for just six weeks. According to Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, which regularly polls consumers on a …
В прошлом месяце Google начала обновление Nexus-устройств до новой операционной системы Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
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Quantum OS: Android’s Material Design in Linux Material Design has been a big hit in Android 5.0 Lollipop. But now a distro developer has plans to incorporate it into a desktop distribution called Quantum OS. Jack Wallen at TechRepublic shares his thoughts about Quantum OS and Material Design: Bridging these …
Barely a month after Elon Musk called artificial intelligence a threat to humanity, another voice – a much bigger voice in the scientific world – warned that the technology could end mankind. Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, cosmologist and author, in an interview with the BBC this week, said “the …
Despite 72-year-old Professor Stephen Hawking just receiving a serious upgrade to his computer-generated speech system, smarter tech, he told the BBC, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very …
Сегодня компания Microsoft выпустила обновление программного обеспечения для мобильных телефонов Nokia 130 (RM-1037) и Nokia 130 Dual SIM (RM-1035). …
An online service allowing consumers to pay their medical bills failed to adequately inform them that it would also try to collect highly detailed medical information from their pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with PaymentsMD, an …
After years of vowing not to bring Firefox to the iPhone and iPad, Mozilla is changing its tune—and is presumably willing to work with Apple’s rules. “We need to be where our users are so we’re going to get Firefox on iOS,” Mozilla Release Manager Lukas Blakk wrote on Twitter. TechCrunch …
Сети четвертого поколения активно развертываются во многих уголках планеты. Наиболее заметный подъем наблюдается в Азии. …
The single most common issue faced by the IT pros surveyed recently by Kelton Research is network slowdowns or outages, which outstripped application performance problems, availability and even the dreaded “unanticipated change request.” The study, commissioned by IT performance analysis vendor TeamQuest, tracked the opinions of more than 400 IT …
Open-source software plays an increasingly prominent role in many areas of modern business IT – it’s in servers, databases and even the cloud. Vendors like Red Hat, Canonical and others have managed to graft open-source principles onto a profitable business model. The former company became the first open-source-centered business with …
Researchers have created highly conductive and durable silver nanowire ink that can be used to print durable electronic circuits on paper. The technology is being touted by the researchers at the University of Tennessee as a breakthrough in making inexpensive, flexible, disposable electronic sensors that can be used for a …
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Yota Devices is more than any other smartphone vendor daring to be different with the dual-screen YotaPhone 2, which stands out with its electronic paper display that can be used to read and access apps. The second-generation smartphone was presented Wednesday at an event in London. Here’s a rundown of …
After Dammions Darden arrived as the new senior systems administrator for the city of Garland, Texas, he knew that the 50 to 60 physical hosts for this 234,000-person city outside of Dallas were not running nearly as efficiently as they could be. Some had excess capacity, others were running way …
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch says he has obtained a Hewlett-Packard document that shows how differences in accounting standards, not fraud on Autonomy’s part, are to blame for the debacle surrounding HP’s acquisition of the company. HP purchased Autonomy for US$11.1 billion in 2011. A year later HP announced an $8.8 …
Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient. Usually touted as a data center tool, SDN can be used to automate …
It was just three weeks ago that Reuters kicked up a storm of speculation that Google was ready to abandon its Google Glass eyewear. Reuters reported that it had contacted 16 Glass developers and found only seven were still working on software for the eyewear while the rest had given …
По слухам, Samsung представит собственный графический ускоритель для мобильных устройств уже в середине 2015 года и интегрирует его в новое поколение процессоров Exynos. А первым обладателем такого симбиоза может стать смартпэд Galaxy Note 5. …
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch says he has obtained a Hewlett-Packard document that shows how differences in accounting standards, not fraud on Autonomy’s part, are to blame for the debacle surrounding HP’s acquisition of the company. HP purchased Autonomy for US$11.1 billion in 2011. A year later HP announced an $8.8 …
The increasing need for real-time analytics has helped buoy server sales to enterprises in a weak global economy, but most of the growth during the third quarter came from Web giants that are building their own hardware. Uncertainty about the economy and budgetary caution have hung over the server market …
Dropbox, the sync-and-share startup so popular it essentially created a market category, is finally, finally opening up to become an enterprise platform with the launch of a Dropbox for Business API that enables team-level app management and integration with third-party services. (The official announcement comes Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET, …