Новости за 30.08.2016

Dell will complete its acquisition of EMC on Sept. 7, ending nearly a year of approvals and decades of history for the two companies that will combine to become Dell Technologies.

DARPA wants to exploit the power of the internet of things to help the U.S. dominate battlefields.

If you go to Lowe’s to buy a hammer or a stack of lumber this fall, you might have a robot offer to help you.

Making a career change is never easy, but few things are more motivating than the prospect of a good salary and a dearth of competition. That's a fair summary of the data science world today, as at least one well-publicized study has made clear, so why not investigate a little further?

A popular BitTorrent client called Transmission has again been found distributing Mac-based malware, months after it was used to spread a strand of ransomware.

Identity management vendor Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users' identities in the cloud.

If you've got data skills, the US government hopes you'll pitch in to help investigate why more people were killed in traffic accidents last year than in any of the prior six.

The White House today said it was worried that American taxpayers would pay for the European Union's decision to force Apple to pay more than $14 billion in back taxes.

At VMWorld this week the virtualization giant is announcing a new integrated system for building private clouds made up of the company’s virtualized compute, network and storage products packaged together with new management software.

Inspired by the classic designs of luxury watches, with cutting-edge technology, the Huawei Watch redefines what we’ve come to expect from a smartwatch. Developed as a statement piece rather than a smartphone for your wrist, it combines elegant craftsmanship with Android Wear, iOS and iPhone compatibility to deliver a new high-end standard for the category.  The 400x400 display delivers notifications, music from your phone, and more than 4,000 apps you can personalize and explore without being tethered to your phone ... Читать дальше...

At VMware's annual conference in Las Vegas this week, the company made a number of announcements that speak to the very real struggle the company faces as seismic shifts in the industry fundamentally change its business.

Security researchers have highlighted in recent months how the web proxy configuration in browsers and operating systems can be abused to steal sensitive user data. It seems that attackers are catching on.

Various Sony audio products are currently discounted at Amazon, and will remain discounted only through September 3rd. Some of the highlights are below:

“It’s slower, heavier, and a bit square…”

These words are packed with meaning for anyone trying to decide between an Apple Macbook and a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 tablet these days. The specs don’t lie, but the person speaking in a new ad while playing a piano that’s meant as an Apple takedown might be a little suspect.

First off, I should tell you I’m a fan of both the Surface line and any Macbook. They have their target markets. Anyone heading to college right now is probably thinking... Читать дальше...

Reports of the death of the platform have, it seems, been exaggerated and Apple is about to answer the prayers of millions of Mac users with a rash of significant hardware improvements, announcing some of these this year.

Surface Pro 4 powers through everything you need to do, while being lighter than ever before. Go from ultraportable tablet to a complete laptop in a snap wherever you are.  The Pro 4 has the Windows you know plus lots of new features you'll love.

New chips can be a reason to upgrade PCs. But does Intel's latest 7th Generation Core chip, code-named Kaby Lake, have enough bite to trigger replacements of old PCs?

A destructive ransomware program deletes files from web servers and asks administrators for money to return them, though it's not clear if attackers can actually deliver on this promise.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made no secret of its desire to push further into big data, and on Tuesday it announced two key new offerings: HPE Haven OnDemand Combinations, an extension of the "machine learning as a service" platform it released earlier this year, and Vertica 8, a major new update to its analytics software.

The race by companies to develop autonomous cars is making rivals out of old friends as is evident from the exit of Alphabet’s senior executive David Drummond from the board of Uber Technologies.

Apple's tax benefits in Ireland are illegal, and the company will have to pay up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in back taxes, plus interest.

Privacy groups in the U.S. have complained to the Federal Trade Commission that changes last week in WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy break its previous promise that user data collected would not be used or disclosed for marketing purposes.

A U.S. cybersecurity monitor on Monday described another breach of a voter election system just after a leaked FBI report revealed two similar attacks.

Surface Pro 3 owners who have had problems getting reasonable battery life from their tablets have relief coming their way. 

It's the end of summer, and this organization's annual picnic is scheduled to begin at quitting time, reports a pilot fish there.