Современные методы слежки Агентства национальной безопасности (АНБ) США могут померкнуть по сравнению с тем, что станет возможным через несколько лет, если коммуникационные технологии и нейрофизиология сделают возможной умственную коммуникацию. …
Тайваньский контрактный производитель электроники Pegatron, сотрудничающий с компанией Apple, ужесточил процедуру приема рабочих на свои сборочные линии в Шанхае. Задача, которую поставил перед собой Pegatron, — отсеять несовершеннолетних претендентов на вакантные места, сообщает The Wall Street Journal. …
Покопавшись в коде MotoMaker, мы обнаружили ссылку на фото Moto X в бирюзовом цвете. Причём в названии папки с фото были идентификаторы цвета задней панели, передней панели, кнопок и ободка камеры, а также обоев. …
Разработчик Грег Банта представил неофициальное приложение для мобильной операционной системы Windows Phone 8, дающей возможность подключать умные часы Pebble к WP-смартфонам. Pebble Watch Pro предназначена для вывода информации из «Календаря», сообщений Twitter и данных об уровне заряда батареи, а также для взаимодействия с плеером. …
Как и любой другой производитель, модельный ряд которого состоит из более чем 3-4 устройств, HTC выбирают несколько ключевых моделей (чаще всего, флагманы и субфлагманы), обновлению которых уделяется большая часть внимания. Но это не значит, что другие актуальные модели компании не получают поддержку вообще. …
Semiconductor company Avago Technologies has agreed to buy storage and networking company LSI for US$6.6 billion in an effort to expand its data center offerings. read more
An Android botnet found in South Korea that steals text messages may be one of the largest and most advanced mobile malware operations discovered, according to security vendor FireEye. read more
U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping to repair some of the damage wrought by the troubled Healthcare.gov site, will meet with executives from technology companies including Yahoo and Twitter on Tuesday. read more
Judge Richard Leon ripped into the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Security Agency in his Monday ruling that the NSA's controversial collection of U.S. telephone records may violate the U.S. Constitution. read more
The airline had said it wouldn't "police" voice calls, but after customers responded, it will. read more
Apple announced that BEYONCÉ has become the fastest selling album ever on the iTunes Store worldwide with an unprecedented 828,773 albums sold in just its first three days. BEYONCÉ also broke the US first week album sales record with 617,213 sold and proved to be a global success, going to …
The number of personal cloud users increases every year and is not about to slow down. Back in 2012 Gartner predicted the complete shift from offline PC work to mostly on-cloud by 2014. And it's happening. …
The U.S. Department of Justice defended the National Security Agency's massive phone records collection program after a U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday that the program is likely to violate the U.S. Constitution. read more
Verizon Wireless Monday continued to maintain that it has the "largest and most reliable 4G LTE network" in the U.S. despite the recent admission by some company executives of some dents in the armor. read more
Microsoft’s Surface tablets were in short supply Monday, with most models out of stock on the company’s online store. …
In a potential blow to government surveillance efforts, a federal judge today ruled that the NSA’s practice of collecting phone metadata records on millions of Americans may be unconstitutional. …
The cost of installing solar power has fallen 60% since 2011 16% in this past year alone, according to GTM Research. …
To stage a Broadway show, director and choreographer Jeff Whiting has to keep track of dozens of dancers and thousands of steps. He’s found that iPad is the best tool for the job. Whiting uses a “show bible” to chart and organize every step of a production. “Before iPad,” Whiting …
A pension investment group has sued IBM, claiming that the company failed to warn investors that sales in China would slow dramatically following revelations that IBM was helping the U.S. National Security Agency spy on the Chinese. read more
Judge Richard Leon sees 'a substantial likelihood of success' by plaintiffs who argue their Fourth Amendment rights have been violated. read more
DRAMeXchange expects second-generation PCIe to replace SATA III in servers and higher-end laptops as the interface of choice for manufacturers, including Apple. read more
NASA engineers are still trying to figure out how to fix a cooling system problem on the International Space Station. The space agency now says it may call for a spacewalk to get the work done. …
iOS wins in a landslide over Android; Surface tablets barely register. read more
Yahoo says its engineers are 'making steady progress,' but the system still isn't fully restored. read more
BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report. read more