Новости за 02.11.2016

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a portable sensor that uses a smartphone's camera to detect a biological indicator for several types of cancers with 99% accuracy, yielding laboratory quality results.

Microsoft's browsers hemorrhaged another 40 million users last month, according to analytics vendor Net Applications, pushing the year's total number of deserters near the one third of a billion mark.

The giants of social media, Facebook, Twitter and Google, are continuing their push to get Americans to the polls for next week's presidential election.

If you're looking for dirt-cheap Windows 10 laptops, many will be available this holiday season, but don't expect superior hardware.

Mobile management has undergone a significant evolution from the era of strict enterprise-owned devices to the world of BYOD and beyond. The transition hasn’t always been smooth for enterprise IT, but the bright side is that organizations now have significantly better options for both empowering the user base with mobile access while maintaining high levels of security needed to protect sensitive data.

Microsoft has added R data visualizations to its Power BI data analysis cloud service -- options which no longer require either knowledge of R or having R on a local system.

The still-fragmented internet of things is slowly converging on protocols that may someday work in both homes and enterprises.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would patch a Windows vulnerability next week that Google publicly revealed just 10 days after notifying Microsoft.

Microsoft continues to make its push into the hardware world with the announcement of Project Olympus, an open-source hardware design was created for the Open Compute Project (OCP) that can be modified and extended by the public.

Workplace collaboration has become increasingly focused on chat in the past couple of years, and Microsoft is jumping into the new space with both feet, launching a new product it calls Teams.

Ford Motor Co. has inked a deal for expanded use of BlackBerry's QNX and security software, which will ultimately allow the automaker to provide connected vehicles and secure mobile platforms for its customers.

Well this is just peachy – your WeMo devices can attack your Android phone.

Chip maker Broadcom wants to buy storage vendor Brocade Communications Systems, stripping out its Fibre Channel business and selling the rest.

As I winged my way back home after attending OpenStack’s Summit in Barcelona last week, I was struck by a growing suspicion that the event marked a turning point for the open source cloud initiative, and that its future is going to start looking different to its past.

Discussing salaries at work can be tricky. LinkedIn is trying to take the guesswork out of calculating fair compensation by giving users the tools to view aggregate data about salary trends by profession.

Apple VP worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, spoke exclusively to The Independent this week, taking the chance to offer the commitment pro users need if they are wondering about the fate of the desktop Mac:

Many web applications have been built on an open source stack that included MySQL. Despite its limitations, MySQL managed to become the world’s most widely used open source RDBMS. What limitations, you ask? Out of the box, MySQL does not scale all that well and, in particular, cannot handle a lot of simultaneous clients compared to commercial databases.

Reality is all the craze these days.

Augmented reality, that is. Which is why it is a pretty big deal that Lenovo has released the Phab 2 Pro, the first augmented reality smartphone to work with Google Tango, the tech giant's AR software. So what is the phone like to use?

In IT Blogwatch, we get back to reality.

So what's up with this phone? Andrei Vlad has some background:

Lawmakers on Tuesday objected to a Facebook feature that allows advertisers to target housing ads to exclude certain racial and ethnic groups from promotions and marketing.

The internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. But its creators never imagined that baby monitors, toasters and smart TVs could bring it to its knees. We need to make sure that the devices that make up the internet of things can’t be used in the kind of attack that almost broke the internet late last month.

Cisco Systems is making a play for the fundamental process of putting IoT devices online, promising greater ease of use and security as enterprises prepare to deploy potentially millions of connected objects.

Flexible, thin-film solar panels from a Silicon Valley company are allowing drone makers to keep their aircraft in the sky for hours longer than is possible with batteries alone.

Law enforcement agencies across the globe staged a crackdown on so-called darknet web sites last week, targeting marchants and thousands of customers who were looking to obtain illegal drugs and goods.

Specialty manufacturing company has a power outage that knocks out the paging system -- which wouldn't be such a problem except the whole thing uses voice-over-IP, reports this IT manager pilot fish.

IT workers in the infrastructure team at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) were notified recently of their layoff. They expect to be training replacements from India-based contractor HCL. The layoff affects more than 500 IT workers, according to the insurance firm.