Новости за 21.04.2016

Yahoo's annual payments of $375 million to Mozilla for making the search provider Firefox's default in the U.S. increasingly looks like a bad deal for Yahoo as Firefox's user and usage shares continue to contract.

Patent trolls are a big enough problem that they've attracted the attention of the White House, but there's little consensus on how to stop them. A new tool from artist and engineer Alexander Reben looks to algorithms for help.

If you're planning on going to Google I/O next month -- or even if you're going to follow it from afar -- you officially can start planning ahead.

Shipments of virtual reality hardware will begin to "skyrocket" this year and keep climbing through 2020, market analyst IDC said.

Who says playing around is a waste of time?

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) said that's exactly what they were doing when they discovered how to increase the tensile strength of nanowires that could be used to make lithium-ion batteries last virtually forever.

Researchers have pursued using nanowires in batteries for years because the filaments, thousands of times thinner than a human hair, are highly conductive and have a large surface area for the storage and transfer of electrons. Читать дальше...

Sure, robots and intelligent machines are likely to replace jobs in the not so distant future.

One wouldn't typically imagine liquid cooling in a tablet, but Acer has pulled it off with its latest Switch Alpha 12.

Cisco Systems has released patches to fix serious denial-of-service flaws in its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) software, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software and the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) library that's used in many products.

Which Android manufacturer can you count on to put customers first -- to actually focus not just on crafting a quality product but also on treating you right after you've forked over your hard-earned cash?

Opera Software today released a developer preview of its namesake browser that includes a full-featured VPN (virtual private network) client and free access to the service.

SunEdison, a pioneering manufacturer of silicon wafers and the world's leading renewable energy developer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today.

Artificial intelligence is not a term anyone should take lightly. By a strict definition, it means a computer system is able to perform tasks that normally require human intervention.

A security researcher has created a free security tool that can detect attempts by ransomware programs to encrypt files on users' Macs and then block them before they do a lot of damage.

Mark Zuckerberg recently went on an all-out charm offensive to curry favor with China’s government. His visit may have played well with Chinese officials, but from this side of the Pacific, it looked as if he was willing to sell his soul to gain access to the Chinese market.

Technology industry shenanigans are always fun to watch -- or at least fun if you haven't got tens of millions of dollars resting on the outcomes of some complex and political positioning. Such is the case in the broader quote-to-cash space.

The default terminal settings on most linux systems is to use colors to serve as hints about file types and permissions. For example, you'll see directory names in blue, executables in green, and file archives in red. And, if you don't want to see the colors -- like when they're just too distracting, you can turn them off easily. The command line colors are set when the ls command is aliased to an ls command that uses the --color option like this:

Meet the new Ubuntu: A Linux release tailor-made for enterprises

Image by Canonical

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, the Russian developer of the SpyEye botnet creation kit, and an associate on Wednesday were sentenced to prison terms by a court in Atlanta for their role in developing and distributing malware that is said to have caused millions of dollars in losses to the financial sector.

Uber and Twitter both significantly expanded their efforts to influence members of Congress through political lobbying in the first three months of the year, new data reveals.

The PC market has been in trouble for ages, but last year was worse. Shipments dropped below 300 million for the first time since 2008, and market research firm IDC declared it the worst year in history. That explains a lot about what happened at Intel this week.

If you believed the vendors, you'd think Wi-Fi was simple: Turn on your computer or other device, hop on the Internet and you're set to go.

Google is in trouble with the EU, yet again. This time, the European Union's executive, the Commission (EC), charges Google with antitrust violations in its contracts with Android ODMs and carriers.

Backup now

I guess you know you can enable iCloud Backup of your device in Settings>iCloud>Backup and backup will take place automatically next time your iOS gadget’s connected to a power supply. What if you want to make a backup immediately for some reason? Simple: go to Settings>iCloud>Backup, and tap Back Up Now to force an immediate backup.

Use the Web version

You can manage your iCloud account through the Web interface, where you can also access and use online versions of Pages and Keynote. Читать дальше...

This pilot fish works as a systems integrator in his company's IT department, but he also lends a hand on occasions when hardware and network support techs aren't around.

Six months after U.S. retailers began assuming liability for debit and credit card fraud, only a fraction of the nation's in-store payment terminals can accept the highly secure chip-enabled cards.