Новости за 08.07.2016

Mozilla on Thursday announced a new initiative designed to guide Firefox users to relevant websites without relying on search engines.

Live streaming, a technology that has been around for years, became white hot this week after it was used to capture the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Minnesota.

Researchers said the impressive part about reaching the 200MB milestone is not just how much data they were able to encode onto synthetic DNA and then decode, it's also the space they were able to store it in.

Many computer users don't realize it, but for most people their internet router is the most important electronic device in their home. It links most of their other devices together and to the world, so it has a highly privileged position that hackers can exploit.

The Carllte Omnidirectional lapel mic has an extra long 59-inch cable and TRRS 3.5mm Jack, making it compatible with most phones, tablets and computers and suitable for a wide range of applications from live-streaming to kareoke. It is made from professional grade polished and protected steel, and captures crystal clear audio without batteries or external power. It averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 100 reviewers (read reviews). Amazon indicates that its $40 list price has been reduced by 68% to just $13. Читать дальше...

Today's popular bug finders catch only about two percent of the vulnerabilities lurking in software code, researchers have found, despite the millions of dollars companies spend on them each year.

Microsoft has released an early 64-bit version of Office 2016 for the Mac, giving adventurous users a chance to finally make the move off 32-bit, as their Windows colleagues have long done.

Displays that can be folded and rolled up have been shown in prototype smartphones, wearables and other devices -- but when will such products be available?

Microsoft has published the source code for its Project Malmo, allowing anyone to conduct artificial intelligence experiments in the world of Minecraft with a little programming.

Voice-activated virtual assistants for the home are all the rage these days. The credit lies largely with Amazon, which was the first big company to take the concept of talking to technology and squeeze it into a pretty little cylinder for your counter.

Take one major trend spanning the business and technology worlds, add countless vendors and consultants hoping to cash in, and what do you get? A whole lot of buzzwords with fuzzy definitions.

Sometime in 2016 Linux will be 25 years old. Exactly when is a matter of opinion.

European Union officials are set to give final approval to a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement early next week, after member states gave their approval to an updated text on Friday.

As public beta testers will be in the process of discovering, the addition of deep neural network technology to iOS 10 means the QuickType keyboard has become much, much smarter.

Snapchat is being sued for exposing minors to sexually offensive content on the Discover feature it offers in tandem with media partners.

Google has acquired Anvato, the developer of a video software platform, to shore up its cloud offering in the area of video delivery.

On Wednesday (July 6), Walmart announced that its trial of Walmart Pay would go national. This is good news for Walmart shoppers who want to pay with a mobile device, but the news would have been very different had Walmart instead embraced NFC payments. Walmart opted to go with its own payments system.

The encryption methods used to secure internet communications won’t be impenetrable forever. More powerful “quantum computers” on the horizon could very well crack them.

Forget Autopilot mode -- Tesla is in fight-back mode.

The company is pushing back against accusations that it acted unethically in the case of the fatal May 7 accident involving its Model S sedan while in Autopilot mode. Now it is dealing with the fallout over another accident, this time of a Model X.

But investigators, and Tesla, still don't know exactly what caused that second accident -- was it Autopilot? Driver error? -- and it doesn't appear that answers are forthcoming. 

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Britain's vote to exit the European Union will depress global IT spending this year, as companies cut back spending over uncertainty about what the future holds, market research firm Gartner said.

A Romanian hacker's claim that he broke into Hillary Clinton's private email server in 2013 was a lie, according to the FBI. 

In 2003, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the world's largest IT services firms, opened an office in Buffalo, New York. Among those attending the opening event was Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), who played a role in convincing Tata to establish an office in upstate New York.

It's a few years back, and this contract programmer pilot fish gets the assignment to create software tools for programming an electronics company's cable set-top boxes -- and when the job is done, he's pretty happy with the result.

For today only Amazon has significant discounts on a few select items, just a small taste of what's to come when Amazon unleashes 100,000+ discounts on "Prime Day" this Tuesday, July 12th, for Amazon Prime members only. If you're not a Prime member, you should at least sign up for the free 30 day trial so you're ready when the deals start to drop: sign up here. 

Spin comes to mind when I read the talking points of the hyperconverged early birds. Consider this pearl from SimpliVity CEO Doran Kempel: