Новости за 08.03.2016

What keeps software developers up at night, other than coding? The fear that artificial intelligence systems can replace them, according to a new survey.

In an apparent attempt to jumpstart its lagging social networking efforts, Google has hired the founder of the often controversial 4chan image-sharing hub.

Slack is a company seemingly on a roll. The service, for those who haven't used it, is heralded by many as the way to fix email in all its broken, reply-to-all glory. Listening to the shouts of the Silicon Valley cognoscenti, one would be excused from suspecting that everyone on earth uses Slack but, while Slack has seen some stellar growth, it's not quite hit the mainstream to that extent.

MIT researchers have developed technology that lets people share their browsing history -- or just selected parts of it -- with friends and the general public.

Detachable tablet devices -- better known as 2-in-1's -- have become the latest rage in computing.

Mozilla today released Firefox 45, fulfilling a promise to drop the browser's Tab Groups feature.

Whole Foods Market today announced it will be retrofitting 100 or more of its 438 stores with rooftop solar panels.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 family was always going to divide opinion. Those who liked where Samsung Electronics was going with the S6 will love the new S7, but those who are (ahem) wedded to Apple gear will take an instant dislike to the flagship pair.

Developers who want to collaborate more efficiently on coding projects have a new tool to work with, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Codenvy.

Google has published an interactive questionnaire that companies can use to assess the security practices of their suppliers, or to review and improve their own security programs.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are beautifully well-executed smartphones, worthy flagships from one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers. The changes from last year's S6 lines are incremental, but the fixes and upgrades are in all the right places. Those small improvements make for two vastly better phones, which start at $650 (for the S7) and $750 (for the S7 Edge), depending on the carrier.

HP is bringing a proprietary form of ink to office printers, and you won't be able to buy cheaper cartridges for it from sites like eBay.

It’s International Women’s Day so it seems appropriate to write a few words about some of the many women who have helped Apple put a “ding in the universe” across the years (in no particular order).

Microsoft has asked a federal judge permission to serve Comcast with a subpoena to identify alleged software pirates who have activated thousands of copies of Windows 7 and Office 2013 using stolen or abused codes, according to court filings.

Now that we’ve passed our PCI audit, we’re making another big compliance push, this time for HIPAA. We’re not in the health field, but the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act includes guidance and requirements related to the safeguarding of health-related data that can be useful for just about any company.

Aruba announced networking software and hardware today that include a new wireless access point that can support Skype for Business and Wi-Fi calling at speeds above 1 gigabit per second.

Seagate today announced what it's calling the world's fastest enterprise-class, solid-state drive (SSD), one that can transfer data at rates up to 10 gigabytes per second (GBps), some 6GBps faster than its previously fastest SSD.

Incident response plan reviews are growing in importance with the rapidly increasing numbers and types of information security incidents that companies must face. The enterprise must approach these reviews with a view toward effective event response.

Successively administering your IT organization to perform like a business is an expectation all organizations require. Can you say with confidence that you control IT costs and transform your business simultaneously? One of the most exorbitant cost centers in business is the technology center.

Drones are the bad boys of the Internet of Things. Instead of doing something useful at home or in a factory, it seems like they're usually out capturing amateur spy video. But that's starting to change.

When IBM's Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, the world was agog over AI's potential. This week, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo system will face an even tougher test in a series of matches against a top-ranked master in the ancient game of Go.

The U.S. Department of Justice has appealed an order by a court in New York that turned down its request that Apple should be compelled to extract data from the iPhone 5s of an alleged drug dealer.

Fingerprints, rather than passwords, are what more than a million financial services customers at USAA use to get online. Part of a trend toward multi-factor authentication (MFA), there is no stored list of passwords for hackers to steal.

IT pilot fish at this small community college gets a call from a user who needs password help with a third-party site.

Project Fi, the Google mobile phone service, no longer needs an invitation to join. And in an aggressive pricing move, Google is slashing the price of a Nexus 5X to $199, so long as you sign up for Fi.