The things people say on Twitter or share on Facebook are pretty trivial individually. When you collect the 5 billion or so items posted to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks every day into one massive database, those bits of individual drivel combine into a massive pointillist masterpiece that is …
Post-turkey gaming You’ve finished your turkey and stuffing. You’ve washed the dishes and put away the leftovers. Now it’s time to ditch your family and enter into the all-night/all-day/all-weekend nightmare that is Black Friday, in hopes of scoring some great gaming deals. America’s most consumerist holiday gets more tangled every …
Digging for true gold, not fool’s gold Black Friday may have a reputation for ridiculously low sale prices, but truth be told, it’s probably the worst day to be a shopper. Not only are the crowds out of control, but retailers inch their prices up before the event just to …
The newest Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard was released this month, PCI DSS 3.0, and it is all about security instead of compliance. That’s according to a new report by Torsten George, vice president at Sunnyvale, CA-based security risk management vendor Agiliance, Inc. The following are what George identifies …
If you’re looking to sharpen your mental focus, Hitachi has developed a wearable brain activity sensor designed to improve learning skills. The prototype, which looks somewhat like an old-school telephone handset, covers a user’s forehead and works with a smartphone, according to Hitachi High-Tech, a group company. While it isn’t …
Uber said nearly 1,000 jobs had disappeared in Nevada after the ridesharing company was forced to temporarily suspend operations in the U.S. state. The move by Uber came after Washoe County District Court Judge Scott Freeman issued this week a preliminary injunction preventing Uber from statewide operations. Uber, which allows …
Sony is developing a watch that uses electronic paper as a display, a spokesman said Friday. No other details about the project were available but the confirmation follows a Bloomberg report that said the watch’s face and band will be made of e-paper and serve as a combined display surface. …
A security researcher came across what appears to be a new family of point-of-sale malware that few antivirus programs were detecting. Nick Hoffman, a reverse engineer, wrote the Getmypass malware shares traits that are similar to other so-called RAM scrapers, which collect unencrypted payment card data held in a payment …
A hacker group called the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) scared visitors to several news websites on Thursday by posting rogue pop-up messages saying they’d been hacked. According to reports from users on Twitter the affected sites included those of CNBC, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, OK magazine, the Evening Standard, PCWorld, …
LTE’s theoretical maximum download speed will increase to 450 Mbps next year — but the upgrade will be out of reach for most users, as many mobile operators simply don’t have enough radio spectrum. The broadband speed users get depends on a myriad of different factors, but in the network …
Over 23,000 Web servers were infected with a backdoor called CryptoPHP that’s bundled with pirated themes and plug-ins for popular content management systems. CryptoPHP is a malicious script that provides remote attackers with the ability to execute rogue code on Web servers and to inject malicious content into websites that …
As utopias go, Panasonic’s new smart town works if you’re keen to be green and don’t mind a heavy corporate presence. On Thursday, the electronics maker inaugurated the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (SST), a subdivision southwest of Tokyo focused on solar power and other environmentally friendly technologies. The community’s goals …
Near misses between drones and aircraft are on the increase, with pilots of airplanes sometimes having to take evasive action, according to data released by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to some news outlets. Pilots and controllers have reported to the agency about 150 incidents this year of drones flying …
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded. Starting Wednesday, the company will begin collecting data on which other apps its users have on their iOS and Android smartphones. The data, Twitter says, will help it deliver …
Opera Software thinks users are ready to subscribe to mobile apps just like music and is pitching curated versions of the company’s Mobile Store to operators. With the Opera Subscription Mobile Store, operators can create their own stores and users pay a weekly fee to download as many apps as …
Компания Micromax анонсировала доступный планшетный компьютер. Модель Canvas Tab P666 построена на платформе Intel и обойдется покупателям в $178. “Сердцем” новинки является 1.2 ГГц процессор Intel Atom Z2520, которому в производительности помогает 1 Гб оперативной памяти. 8-дюймовый дисплей IPS, а его разрешение составляет 1280 x 800 точек. Работает система под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Среди …
Осень этого года богата на технические новинки. Не отстают и производители цифровых камер, регулярно обновляя модельный ряд. Среди камер, сумевших за последние несколько месяцев привлечь внимание специалистов, выделяется несколько моделей, о которых и пойдёт речь. Производители цифровиков всё никак не оставят попытки переманить на свою сторону аудиторию конкурентов. В связи …
Apple today launched its annual Black Friday sale and for the first time offered gift cards with the purchase of an iPhone. The sale — Apple’s only everyone-is-eligible one of the year — provides iTunes gift cards of $50 with the purchase of any new iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6 …
While Cyber Monday has long taken a back seat to the holiday shopping tsunami that is Black Friday, this year things may be different — especially since some sale prices on the Monday after Thanksgiving could be better than day-after-Thanksgiving deals. “Cyber Monday brings savings that are 10% – 14% …
Стало известно, что магазин Micro Center начал продавать Windows-планшет WinBook TW70CA-17 всего за $60, это дешевле нежели существующие HP Stream 7 или Toshiba Encore Mini, цена которых около $100. За 60 баксов пользователь получит просто фантастические характеристики: 7-дюймовый 5-точечным сенсорный емкостный жидкокристаллический дисплей IPS, поддерживающий разрешение 1280 на 800 точек; “сердцем” устройства …
Imagine a fleet of quad copters or drones equipped with explosives and controlled by terrorists. Or someone who hacks into a connected insulin pump and changes the settings in a lethal way. Or maybe the hacker who accesses a building’s furnace and thermostat controls and runs the furnace full bore …
VR enthusiasts are all waiting for the Oculus Rift to ship and change the world, but in the meantime we’re seeing other stop-gap systems aimed at giving us a taste of the future. We already know about Google Cardboard and Samsung’s VR Gear; now it’s time to talk about Pinć from Cordon Development …
Worried user tells this pilot fish that there are marks on her CRT screen that won’t go away. “She told me this very quietly, because in the same quad as my cube the IT boss and the other IT tech were standing, both of whom were not the most pleasant …
Sony is developing a watch that uses electronic paper as a display, a spokesman said Friday. No other details about the project were available but the confirmation follows a Bloomberg report that said the watch’s face and band will be made of e-paper and serve as a combined display surface. …
По мнению большинства обозревателей, проект Google по созданию очков дополненной реальности Google Glass не удался. Основные причины — отсутствие полезного назначения и проблемы с восприятием пользователей Glass в обществе. …
The Weather Channel has fixed a common web application security problem on its website that made nearly all links vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. Wang Jin, a doctoral student at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, found more than 75 percent of the …