Новости за 07.12.2016

Apple on Tuesday acknowledged that an iPhone 6S shut-down problem is more widespread than first believed, and said it will include diagnostic tools in the next iOS update to collect more information on why some phones are shutting down unexpectedly.

U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a government probe into whether Russia may have interfered with the presidential election by hacking high-profile political targets.  

About 44% of all solar power that's installed on residential rooftops, known as distributed solar capacity, is owned by private businesses, such as SolarCity or Vivint Solar, according to new government data.

Microsoft made another R-in-the-enterprise push today, announcing Microsoft R Server 9.0 with a goal of helping companies "operationalize" data science.

Get 14% off the highly rated M8 all-in-one world travel power adapter from Orei, plus an additional 15% when you check the "apply coupon" box on Amazon right now. This gadget features built-in sliders that create the right adapter for any country you find yourself in. It's all self-contained -- no additional parts to attach or keep track of. As a bonus, they've included dual-USB ports to keep your devices juiced up as well. The M8 adapter averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 2,200 people (read reviews). Читать дальше...

Slack and Google have vastly deepened their partnership roughly a month after Microsoft announced its competitor to the popular enterprise chat service.

Before you chuck that CD ROM, soda can or plastic bottle, exercise your kids imagination with this kit from OWI that turns your recyclables into a solar-powered robot, race car, boat, or whatever they can dream up with this kit full of gears, motors, a solar panel and more. The Super Solar Recycler Kit is powered completely by natural light so you never have to worry about batteries. It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where its typical list price of $24.99 has been reduced 36% to just... Читать дальше...

Despite the fact there’s no such thing as a free lunch, you can download the eight virtual appliances discussed in this article for free. That doesn’t mean you can use any of these in a high-end production environment, but it doesn’t mean you can’t, either. Some even have paid and supported versions should you choose to go that route.

Fitbit, the maker of popular fitness trackers, has acquired assets owned by rival Pebble, including key employees and intellectual property related to software and firmware development.

Nearly the entire tech industry, with the exception of PayPal founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, publicly lined up against Donald Trump and for Hillary Clinton in the recent presidential election. But words are one thing and actions another. And actions taken by the tech industry in the last decades helped seal Trump’s surprise victory.

The monthly Android security update released this week fixes the serious Dirty COW privilege escalation attack that can allow malicious apps to take full control of devices.

If an A.I. could rule a world, would you trust it to manage your IT systems? German software company Arago is hoping you will.

Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese telecom firm SoftBank, plans to invest $50 billion and create 50,000 jobs in the U.S. by pumping money into startups, he said after a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.

If you are a gamer, then you don’t want a router powered by an Intel Puma 6 chipset that causes spikes of lag and packet loss that end up getting you killed in a game. Although some gamers have always blamed losing or dying on lag, the problem with Intel’s chip is real enough that the company acknowledged it.

I guess if you bat for the ‘iPhone is failing’ teams then you will have thrown the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech data into your “does not fit the narrative” trash can. 

News today that Daatrics, a company that specializes in wearable devices, is reinventing the way baby monitors work. For its part, Daatrics, which was founded in 2014, is a London-based design house that has spent a couple of years, generously funded by its investors, playing around with different wearable opportunities.

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Since October, millions of internet users have been exposed to malicious code served from the pixels in tainted banner ads meant to install Trojans and spyware, according to security firm ESET.

Most popular companies for job seekers

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It's no surprise that IT jobs are some of the hottest, most lucrative and exciting careers around, but some companies are more alluring than others. Job search site Indeed.com searched through its more than 16 million job postings last month, filtered results to focus on only the IT industry jobs, and then ranked each company based on viewer impressions and click-through rate to gauge how appealing each company is to potential candidates. Читать дальше...

There is not a whole lot that Google doesn't have a hand in these days, when it comes to personal technology, at least. 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Samsung Electronics and its industry backers in a design patent dispute with Apple, when it said that the term "article of manufacture" is broad enough to embrace both a product sold to a consumer and a component of that product, whether sold separately or not.”

Scott Zulpo is facing stiff competition.

He's adding a senior project manager, a network analyst and a help desk worker to his 55-member IT staff at BCU, a Vernon Hills, Ill.-based credit union where he is vice president of IT. He plans to add even more people in 2017 to keep up with an increasing demand for tech-driven innovations.

"The challenge is twofold -- first finding talent, and then determining if that talent has the skills, experience and personality to thrive in the position," says Zulpo... Читать дальше...

This bank is upgrading its ACH capabilities -- that's the way direct deposits get made, among other things -- and it's turning out to be far more complicated than expected, says a pilot fish on the project.

The European Union's regulators on Tuersday approved Microsoft's acquisition of social network LinkedIn on the condition that the U.S. company abide by several minor concessions it made to secure the deal.

Wildfires around Gatlinburg, Tenn. killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 homes and businesses over the past two weeks. It's considered one of the deadliest wildfires ever in the U.S.