Новости за 17.03.2016

 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to 12 smartphone app developers for allegedly compromising users' privacy by packaging audio monitoring software into their products.

Frustrated with Boston Dynamics’ slow pace in building a marketable product, Google’s parent company Alphabet is apparently looking to unload robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics, which it acquired a little more than two years ago.

Just a day after releasing a revised Windows 10 app, Twitter today said it would halt updates to the Windows version of TweetDeck in four weeks.

Like Apple, Samsung is trying to link its devices so they work better together. A new effort bridges the gap between the company's Android handsets and Windows devices.

Sidewalks Labs, a unit of Google parent-company Alphabet, is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation to build a data and analytics platform that promises to help cities understand where people go and how they get there.

Microsoft's recent campaign to force-feed the Windows 10 upgrade to older PCs appears to have been successful, generating a short but sustained increase in usage, according to a pair of data sources.

Security researchers exploited previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Flash Player to compromise the latest versions of OS X and Windows during the first day of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today a commitment by 20 automakers to make automatic emergency braking (AEB) standard on their cars.

There used to be an app that showed creepy dolls staring at you.

Another one had something to do with feeding puppies constantly and keeping them alive. You know how that one turned out.

You could argue that Flappy Bird was pretty terrible, considering the game was almost impossible and even the developer decided to pull the plug on it.

Yet, none of these apps could shine a candle next to the utter mind-numbing stupidity of an iPhone app released recently called Peeple. When it was announced last year... Читать дальше...

By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries and the breadth of industry support for Python compensate heavily for its not having the raw performance of Java or C. Speed of development takes precedence over speed of execution.

Makers of wearable computing devices will ship 110 million products in 2016, a big increase from 2015, with Android Wear smartwatches starting to catch up to Apple watchOS devices, IDC predicted.

Google Keep is a great tool for managing all sorts of notes and lists -- especially if simplicity, universal access, and tight integration with Google services are priorities for you. I've used it on and off for years myself, and lately, it's become a core part of my mobile tech setup.

A new email-based attack campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the U.S., Middle East and Asia with the goal of compromising their computers and email accounts.

In much of the enterprise-software world today, data is data and chat is chat, and rarely the twain shall meet. Looker aims to change all that.

Apple products hold value in the second user market. You can still raise $69 or more for a first generation iPad on eBay, while you can’t expect the same performance as you enjoy from newer models, you can get much more from an older iPad (or any iOS device) using these eight easy tips.

Apple has moved some of its iCloud and services data from Amazon Web Services to Google's cloud platform, in what is seen as a bid by the iPhone maker to diversify its cloud service providers, according to reports.

I always bristle a bit when companies suggest that they're going to be "the Uber for sushi," or when the pitch goes, "like Netflix, but for backyard chickens." It's so tempting, and so easy, to take a high-profile tech success story and purloin it for your own gain. Oftentimes, however, the example doesn't work and the company just looks silly.

With IT budgets on the rise, and the average company spending 5% of its revenues on IT, according to one study, billions of dollars are being spent each year on IT procurement.

Amazon loses yet again -- this time, it's Apple that shifts most of its AWS storage to Google Cloud Platform. It's victory for SVP Diane Greene, who we imagine is doing the Google happy dance, over in Mountain View.

Amazon.com loses another one, as Apple moves most of its AWS fleet to Google Cloud Platform. Chalk up a victory for Diane Greene, who we imagine is doing a Mountain View happy dance.

The latest version of the TeslaCrypt ransomware has tidied up a weakness in previous versions that in some cases allowed victims to recover their files without paying a ransom.

Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana is one of the major additions to Windows 10 -- and it's a winner. Turn it on and Cortana alerts you to upcoming meetings; searches your PC and the Web; tells you about the weather, news and sports; and a lot more.

Cities of the future that can monitor the environment and traffic on each block may begin with the humble streetlamp.

The same advances in electronics that bring us ever more powerful smartphones are helping NASA become more nimble in exploring the universe.

Messaging services on Android devices get dinged by users for being too complex and fragmented, at least when compared to the universal app approach with Apple iMessage on iOS devices.