Новости за 11.07.2016

When Dallas police officers were under fire during a deadly sniper attack last week, it was a nearly 4-foot-tall robot that took out the suspected assailant.

While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today touted "digital transformation" during a 30,000-foot-view speech before thousands of resellers, the executive in charge of the firm's global partner group got down to dollars and cents.

In 2005, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) introduced an H-1B reform bill that picked up just five co-sponsors. The bill went nowhere, but he didn't give up.

Mashable Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore recently announced a round of funding meant to “put Mashable on more platforms, including television,” along with the news of a downsized editorial staff and an increased focus on producing branded content. At a follow-up all-hands meeting, he spoke of the changing media landscape in addition to how he’ll ensure Mashable stays ahead of the curve.

GE and Microsoft have teamed up to bring the industrial giant's Predix platform-as-a-service offering to the Azure cloud, the two companies announced Monday. 

If you're running a WordPress website and you have the hugely popular All in One SEO Pack plug-in installed, it's a good idea to update it as soon as possible. The latest version released Friday fixes a flaw that could be used to hijack the site's admin account.

India’s large number of software developers has top smartphone companies like Google and Apple trying to coax them to work on their operating systems.

Monitoring and analytics vendor New Relic is extending supports within their monitoring platform and now covering applications using the Go programing language (Golang for you cool developer types).

Whether you agree or disagree with Dallas police blowing up a gunman with a “bomb robot,” the fact that domestic police deployed a killer robot potentially changed everything about policing.

Some people dream of traveling the world on a budget and staying in touch as digital nomads. Married couple Sam and Toccara Best have made that dream a reality.

cPacket come out with news today about a new stream analysis and behavioral analytics product designed for trading exchanges and financial services firms.

The families of victims of five recent attacks in Israel are suing Facebook for more than $1 billion, saying the social media site helps terrorists plan their violence.

Microsoft made the biggest pitch to date for HoloLens as a business computing device on Monday during its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada.

SWIFT is bringing in additional security support after a series of high-profile bank heists and attempted bank heists conducted via its financial transaction network.

Pokémon Go sneaked up on me. One minute, I knew nothing about it, and the next, just about everyone was talking about it.

Samsung today announced what it claims is the highest capacity consumer solid state drive, a 4TB member of its 850 EVO line, which will retail for $1,499 or about 36 cents per gigabyte of capacity.

Companies that develop enterprise applications download over 200,000 open-source components on average every year -- and one in 16 of those components has security vulnerabilities.

I made a terrible mistake the first time I quit a professional job. I was in my 20s and had been working on an MBA at night and decided to return to school full time to finish the second half of the degree. Wanting to leave well, I gave my boss six months’ notice. Big mistake.

With the launch of Pokemon Go last week, it's not just players but police that "gotta catch 'em all."

Apple has put together plenty of accessibility enhancements across all its operating systems for release this fall. Inspired by a great story about Apple engineer, Jordyn Castor, I thought I'd explain some of these today.

Consumers love sales, and yet the concept itself is oddly unclear. It's generally based on a product being x% off some other price, but that "other price" is almost always meaningless. A meaningful price would be "x% less today than what out competitors are selling it for today." A meaningless price would be "x% off what we sold it for a month ago or x% off of a manufacturer's suggested retail price," a figure almost no one uses (other than perhaps Apple).

A mobile chip faster than the one in flagship smartphones like Samsung's Galaxy S7 and LG's G5 will start appearing in handsets this quarter.

Technology professionals and managers are used to being in high demand, but no sector is immune to layoffs and economic disruption.

Facebook is making exceptions to its Community Standards. But it's for a good reason.

Microsoft has jumped into the free, self-service data analysis space with Power BI.