Новости за 17.10.2016

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Mention artificial intelligence and a discussion about the robot wipeout of humankind is sure to follow. It's a technology as strongly associated with creation as it is with destruction.

U.S. investigators are exercising a broad legal authority to force suspects to unlock their smartphones. In a recent case, they demanded that anyone found inside a California residence comply by surrendering their fingerprints.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it's not older consumers who are most easily duped by technical support scams, a survey released today claimed.

Whether to build versus buy software is a common question, especially for CTOs, CIOs and technical leads working on high-tech products and services.

The ZIPP MINI delivers 360° sound no matter where in your home you take it. Enjoy your music and audio content streamed to your ZIPP MINI wireless speaker using your home WiFi network, or directly from your device using Bluetooth. Pair up to 6 of them together in one room for an immersive listening experience. The intuitive touch controls let you control everything directly from the ZIPP MINI speaker, or you can easily control and configure it all from the Libratone mobile App. ZIPP MINI supports Spotify Connect... Читать дальше...

Cisco said on Monday it bought Heroik Labs, which does business as Worklife and sells collaborative software that helps companies more effectively run and manage online meetings.

The U.K.'s spy agencies breached the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for years by secretly collecting almost everything about British citizens' communications except their content, a U.K. court has ruled.

Tesla announced plans to expand its business partnership with Panasonic to include manufacturing their photovoltaic cells and panels at its Buffalo production facility, due to open next year.

Microsoft will issue its next Windows 10 upgrade in March 2017, according to clues uncovered by digital detectives.

We live in an age filled with big ideas but devoid of any real consensus regarding how to prioritize them. Working with colleagues, I have attempted to systematically think about the big ideas that surround us: what they are, why they matter, the progress being made in adopting them and the obstacles preventing any particular big idea from moving to the next level. 

A "state actor" has cut off internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the transparency activist organization said Monday.

Four U.S. lawmakers are questioning a Department of Justice decision to appeal a July court decision quashing a search warrant that would have required Microsoft to disclose contents of emails stored on a server in Ireland.

Cybercriminals have unleashed a new banking Trojan program on the internet and it bears striking similarities to Dyre, a malware threat believed to have been dead for almost a year.

Whether you were in your house, or visiting someone in another house or even an apartment, you would surely not believe that cops could bust in and demand the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person there that they suspected might own a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor. That’s right, not accused of having committed any crime, but of simply owning a smartphone which can be unlocked with fingerprint biometrics. Nevertheless, in what is believed to be a first, that is exactly what a court filing in California asked for. Читать дальше...

No matter how many new communication channels have entered the workplace over the past several years – from instant messaging to text messaging – email has persisted as the killer app in many enterprises.

It's still Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so in today's post I'm passing on a number of security recommendations for online activity, some that the FBI has been promoting for Internet safety.

The New York Police Department has finally entered the 21st century, and they have done it with...Windows Phones?

Pixar founder George Lucas may have given the world the word “Droid” before he sold the company to Apple’s Steve Jobs, but Apple CEO Tim Cook makes no secret that he wants his company to play its part in making intelligence in machines a reality.

Check Point has long been known as a firewall company but it is reaching beyond its roots with a new series of protective technologies under its SandBlast line.

Mobile app complexity is seriously tricky, as Amazon can attest. On Thursday (Oct. 13), the e-tailer quietly updated its app and confessed that its iOS shopping cart would freeze when a shopper tries to switch between apps. It makes one wonder how extensive mobile app testing is these days when this kind of glitch can get by the usually competent folk of Amazon app teams.

For today's overworked, time-strapped IT employees, bots are more than simply apps that perform automated tasks, like delivering weather reports or taking pizza orders. Rather, they're a respite from endless help-desk calls, constant software updates and tedious server maintenance jobs.

Combining different forms of collaboration in one platform is only part of the battle when it comes to helping co-workers connect. There’s also integration with productivity applications so that employees don’t have to constantly switch between screens.

This IT consultant pilot fish has recently gotten some good news: He and his cohorts are now 100 percent vested in their retirement plan, and the company has even boosted its match for whatever employees put in.

Bad guys are always looking to abuse overlooked components of a system. On PCs, the Windows Script Host (WSH) was one such, often overlooked, component, but it's becoming more popular.