Новости за 23.06.2016

Boston Dynamics, the Google-owned robot maker that's apparently up for sale, has a new four-legged robot small enough to walk around a house, agile enough to load your dishwasher, and not quite clever enough to avoid banana skins on the floor.

Proving who pulled off a cyber attack is never easy and sometimes impossible. That’s the reality investigators face as they try to figure out who breached the network of the Democratic National Committee, which revealed last week that hackers had made off with confidential documents including research on Republican presidential opponent Donald Trump.

Autonomous cars are in the news again, this time about new research into the moral implications of what happens in an accident.

Oracle's namesake database may have been born on-premises, but the next big update to the software will make its debut in the cloud.

Microsoft has significantly upped the tally of U.S. government gag orders slapped on demands for customer information, according to court documents filed last week.

A hybrid Trojan program created for financial fraud has started redirecting users of four large U.S. banks to rogue websites in order to hijack their accounts.

IBM has many goals with its upcoming Power9 chip, and one of them is to challenge the dominance of Intel's x86 chips in the data center.

After facing allegations that it was actively suppressing conservative views, Facebook has responded by adding an employee training class focused on political bias.

These days, most Android devices work pretty well out of the box -- but that doesn't mean you can't get under the hood and do some serious tinkering if your inner geek demands it.

Three vendors, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, have won a key U.S. government authorization that allows federal agencies to put highly sensitive data on their cloud-computing services.

It looks as though BlackBerry CEO John Chen will be in charge long enough to launch another couple of phones -- although don't expect any new flagship models.

The prevalence of ransomware programs, both those that encrypt data and those that don't, has exploded over the past two years, with companies being increasingly targeted.

Alphabet is boosting its Google Fiber team with Webpass, a San Francisco-based ISP. The idea is to bring ludicrously-fast Internet access to more people, more quickly.

Brace expansion is one of the interesting features of bash that many users are barely aware of while many others claim is one of their favorite features.

Photos is certainly among the most important applications on Mac or iPhone, so Apple’s decision to improve it in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will impact all of us. The new and improved Photos is smarter than ever before.

Intel, SAP, Lyft, Spotify and VMware are among over 30 Silicon Valley companies that on Wednesday signed a pledge that they would take action to make their technology workforce "fully representative of the American people, as soon as possible."

Google Fiber is acquiring Internet service provider Webpass to quickly increase its urban coverage and offer customers a combination of fiber and wireless delivery of high-speed Internet.

I didn't want my developer friends feeling left out, so I thought I would share some items that are new or different in Visual Studio 2015 and SharePoint Server 2016, from a developer's standpoint.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining Amazon $130,000 over two incidents in 2014 when it shipped or attempted to ship hazardous goods by air.

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As Microsoft hurtles towards the release of its major Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the company introduced a tool that's supposed to help PC owners resolve problems with activating the operating system on their computers.

Making charts with data is easy. Coming up with charts that show what's important in your data takes skills beyond simply mastering visualization software.

Windows administrators have a problem -- passwords. Specifically, administrator passwords that lurk out there, identical across machines, just ready to be compromised. But there is finally a solution at the right price that mitigates this problem almost completely. Interested? Let's dive in.

Pilot fish works as a systems engineer at a Florida company that manages IT for organizations ranging from law firms to medical clinics, so fielding an early-morning support call isn't unusual -- but he's still not quite prepared for this long-time customer.