Новости за 22.03.2017

When he was growing up, a dream of Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds was to acquire the Acorn Archimedes, a groundbreaking personal computer with the first ARM RISC chips.

Hackers claiming to have hundreds of millions of iCloud credentials have threatened to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if Apple does not fork over $150,000 within two weeks.

Wal-Mart Stores is creating what it's calling a technology incubator in Silicon Valley that's focused on technologies that will change how people shop.

The chances of your encountering malware on your Android phone is incredibly small, according to Google.

Via Technologies is shipping new 360-degree cameras for under $100, making it more affordable for users to capture and play virtual reality content in headsets.

I’m a big fan of Atlassian. I first got to know the company through a couple of channels -- I had developer friends who used their various tools and I’d heard much of the “Aussie co-founders take their company state-side” theme.

Thanks to Vodafone, the Taurus-Littrow Valley will get its first mobile phone base station next year.

A group of hackers is threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn’t pay them US$150,000.

The U.S. Air Force's top-secret autonomous space plane, the X-37B, is days away from breaking its own longevity record. The aircraft, which looks like a mini Space Shuttle, will on March 25 begin its record-setting 675th day in orbit, but we still don't know much about what it's doing up there.

Microsoft really wants all of us on Windows 10. And it's done asking nicely. For many users of Windows 7 and 8.1, upgrade cajolery just morphed into something that looks a lot like upgrade coercion. (It had already tried upgrade trickery.)

You know when you are on your way somewhere, and your friends keep texting you asking when you'll arrive? Or you are trying to meet up with people in a crowded venue and just can't find the people you are looking for?

Dual ports pump out 39W of power to simultaneously charge power-hungry USB devices at full speed. Charge compatible devices up to 80% in just 35 minutes with Quick Charge 3.0. Patented PowerIQ and VoltageBoost deliver high-speed charging to non-Quick Charge devices. Anker's Quick Charge Dual USB Car Charger is discounted right now to just $21.99. See this deal now on Amazon.

Reacting to concerns about the mass collection of photographs in police databases, U.S. lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to limit the use of facial recognition technology by the FBI and other law enforcement organizations.

Oh -- hi there, O.

There's a lot to be said about Google's brand spankin' new Android O software, which arrived in a very rough-around-the-edges first developer preview on Tuesday. And fear not, my friends, for we'll get to it all in time.

First, though, I need to take a minute to zone in on one inconspicuous feature in this extremely early O draft: the ability to snooze a notification.

Sound familiar? It should: I've been talking about such a feature since this time last year... Читать дальше...

Hotels, colleges, enterprises and educators now have a really simple way to deploy Apple TVs across their business: new iOS management software from Jamf, which will introduce zero-day support for Apple’s upcoming iOS 10.3, macOS 10.12.4 and tvOS 10.2 releases.

Trello is getting hooked into the entire Atlassian ecosystem with a series of integrations unveiled Wednesday. The new “power-ups” for the project management software connect it with BitBucket, Jira, HipChat and Confluence, to help customers get their work done more efficiently.

LinkedIn wants to be its users’ professional news feed, and the company just launched a new feature aimed at providing them with a broad set of perspectives on relevant business news.

Experience first class flight with auto landing, takeoff, and hover with the push of a button, features never before seen in mini drones. ULTRA is smartphone ready – allowing a connection with your phone through Wi-Fi or remote control for crystal-clear video and photos. Use your phone as a display with the remote or complete flight control. The list price on the MOTA JETJAT mini drone has been reduced to just $47.38. See this deal now on Amazon.

Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher on Google’s Project Zero team, warned of flaws in LastPass browser extensions, vulnerabilities which – if a person surfed to a malicious site – would allow the malicious site to steal passwords from the password manager.

The tech world went a little crazy last week over the news that Microsoft was conducting internal tests of Windows Servers on ARM processors. Microsoft isn't saying what it plans to do beyond its internal use, and with good reason. The low-power CPU has been a failure on the server.

Facebook and Nokia have found a way to push a lot more data through a submarine cable across the Atlantic, which could help the social network keep up with the growth of video and virtual reality.

There may be a perception in some circles that software developers have been busy coding since childhood. But online programming community Stack Overflow in its recent developer survey found many coders have been coming aboard much later.

Microsoft Windows 10 has gone a long way towards fixing the problems that were endemic with earlier versions of Windows -- notably Windows 8. But it's still far from a perfect operating system and has its share of headaches.

IT analyst pilot fish buys a new PC, and it turns out that a key application fish uses won't load -- and the newest version of the software is subscription-based.

If there's a new version of Windows in the offing -- and there is, Windows 10 Creators Edition -- the person you want on hand to explain it is Computerworld's Windows guru Preston Gralla.