Новости за 15.08.2016

An anonymous group claims to have stolen hacking tools that might belong to the National Security Agency and is auctioning them off to the highest bidder.

Audi announced today that its 2017 vehicles will be available with vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication technology that enables them to inform drivers when lights will switch from red to green.

Apple will unveil the newest iPhones in just over three weeks, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, if the company sticks to a well-worn groove that makes its biggest product launch predictable.

With Google apparently working to develop a new operating system, speculation is centered on whether the company is looking to play a big role in running the Internet of Things (IoT).

Google Fiber is reportedly hoping to rely on wireless technology instead of fiber-optic cables in about 12 major cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas, where it has planned faster internet service.

For decades, PCs were at the center of Intel's business. Not anymore.

Self-driving cars, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are more attractive to Intel, which no longer views PCs as a priority. That's the message the company will try to deliver at Intel Developer Forum, starting on Tuesday.

IDF attendees will see drones fly around and robots roaming the floor, and they will be able to try on cool wearables and VR and AR (augmented reality) headsets.

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The X1 car dash camera from KDLINKS currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 2,400 customers (read reviews). It records full-HD Video 1920x1080 at 30 fps, and features a super wide 165° viewing angle. It starts recording immediately after turning on the ignition, and records in a continuous loop, however there is an emergency "lock" feature that can be enabled and will prevent overwriting. It has a motion detection system as well as a night mode ensuring high quality recordings even in poor lighting conditions. Читать дальше...

Five million roofs are replaced each year in the U.S., so instead of simply swapping out old shingles with new ones, why not turn the whole roof into a solar power generator that's integrated with your home's electrical utility?

As expected, Windows 10's usage share growth sank after Microsoft ended the free upgrade it had offered customers for the past year.

If a graphic calculator is somewhere on your list, consider this 12% discount on the Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus graphing calculator. Building on the hugely popular TI-83 Plus, which is perhaps the best-selling calculator of all time, the TI-84 Plus is completely compatible with its predecessor. From that well-established platform, this new model adds more speed (a processor that's 2.5 times faster), more memory (24 KB RAM and 480 KB of Flash ROM), an enhanced high-contrast display (eight lines by 16 characters), and more Apps. Читать дальше...

Today, the financial printing typesetter epitomizes the definition of the word survivor in an industry indifferent to constructive technological process improvement.

You don't see this every day...a hacking group claims to have hacked a U.S. intelligence agency-linked hacking group and has put the 'best' cyber weapons up for auction.

Remember the good old days, when logging into your favorite web service (Geocities, anyone?) was a simple as entering a username and password? Back then, things were simpler and safer.

This presidential election presents one of the clearest choices in U.S. history between two major-party candidates. But one thing has been rarely discussed: Where do the candidates stand on tech issues? Whether it’s net neutrality, investing in tech infrastructure, building an educational pipeline of tech workers, privacy or any of several other tech issues, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take very different approaches. It’s worth looking at their varied stances.

Where will Apple be in five years time? That’s a difficult question to answer, but the company's CEO, Tim Cook, dropped a few hints recently. We may not be able to see the whole picture, but we get a sense of its future plans.

For years, Google has developed two operating systems side-by-side in Android for mobile devices and Chrome OS for laptops and desktops. But it looks as though Google now has a third operating system project underway known as Fuchsia. 

And SpaceX sticks the landing!

Taking a page out of Simone Biles's book, Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a droneship off the shore of Florida after launching a satellite into space. This marks an eighth Falcon 9 launch of 2016, and the 6th time ever that a Falcon 9 rocket has managed to land after a launch. So what does this all mean?

In IT Blogwatch, we reach for the stars.

William Harwood gives us the background:

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Software has an enormous impact on our individual lives, but the impact on the economy, GDP and employment is even greater than expected, according to a study from BSA - The Software Alliance, an international alliance that advocates on behalf of the software industry. The Economic Impact of Software research study shows that, as of 2014, the software industry was responsible for a total of $1.07 trillion of U.S. value-added GDP, and directly... Читать дальше...

When I first saw Mr. Spock talking to the Enterprise’s computer, I thought it was so cool. I still do. But the more I look at Cortana, Windows 10’s inherent virtual assistant, the more creeped out I get.

Making retail operations digital is usually an improvement. Done properly, digital can be more efficient, faster and cost-effective and can capture far more information. it is also often the kind of interactions many younger consumers prefer. But don't let that lengthy list of advantages blind you to the reality that you're still losing something. That pro/con list may be lopsided, but it still has two sides.

The vast majority of the world’s electronics -- its servers, PCs, mobile phones -- are now manufactured in China. This means any inadvertent escalation over the on-going South China Sea territorial dispute could do more than raise geopolitical tensions.

The U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center will soon provide classified supply chain threat reports to critical U.S. telecommunications, energy and financial businesses.

User calls the IT help desk to report that he's lost his mobile phone and there's nowhere else he can think to look for it, says a pilot fish in the loop.

HEI Hotels & Resorts has reported a possible compromise of payment card information at its point-of-sale terminals, the latest in a string of attacks on such systems at hotels, hospitals and retailers.