Новости за 15.12.2016

Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz is joining President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, the team said Thursday. She will sit on its executive committee and remain in her position at Oracle.

Facebook is experimenting with new features to allow users and third-party fact checkers to flag posts that appear to be fake news.

Microsoft's overly aggressive efforts to get people to migrate to Windows 10 are well-documented. The company pushed people way too far by engaging in tactics like not allowing people to click a "No" option for the upgrade and changing the "X" from closing the prompt to giving permission to perform the upgrade.

The No More Ransom project, a coalition of law enforcement and security companies, has expanded with 30 new members and added 32 new decryption tools for various ransomware variants.

Complexity is bad. Simplicity is good.

We live in an age of diminishing returns with respect to business worker output.

One of the things that technology was supposed to do was make us more productive, and by extension, allow our lives to become easier.

No one could have foreseen we’d come to live in a time where the complete opposite is true.

Technology has allowed us to be more productive. Collectively, we’ve made more stuff than ever before. We’ve done more things than... Читать дальше...

While it is fair to say it took a little longer than expected to get off the ground, Apple’s Home Kit ecosystem has become more interesting in recent months. This week’s iOS 10.2 update makes a compelling argument for Apple's smart home.

So. Facebook’s Q3 earnings call showed that there self-declared Jihad on ad blockers seemed to be working and the social network unlocked a huge amount of ad revenue in the process.

AT&T will help NASA beef up its Deep Space Network by providing a high-speed VPN to connect giant radio antennas around the world.

Writing about mobile technology gives me the opportunity to think through some pretty fascinating stuff. Here in the world of Android, after all, things never stay still for long -- and there's always some new concept, interface, or idea just waiting to be digested and put into perspective.

U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler will step down on Jan. 20, clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to appoint a Republican chairman and majority at the agency.

Cloud providers and large enterprises don't know enough about what's going on in their networks, according to Nokia.

The rapidly expanding wearable device market raises serious privacy concerns, as some device makers collect a massive amount of personal data and share it with other companies, according to a new study.

Internet giant Yahoo announced a massive data breach Wednesday that affected over one billion accounts, making it by far the largest data breach in history. This follows the disclosure in September of a different breach that affected more than 500 million of the company's customers.

As President-elect Donald Trump met with high-tech business leaders in New York on Wednesday, some of their employees were affirming, in tweets, a decision to join the resistance.

Some critics may like to knock PCs as dinosaurs, but laptops and desktops have gotten faster and even smarter. For every blue screen of death, there are technological enhancements driving PCs into the era of virtual reality, 4K video and 5G connectivity. Here are the top 10 PC technology and trends to watch next year.

Apple's powerful iPhone 7 GPU is based on Imagination Technologies' PowerVR GT7600 architecture, and a possible successor could come next year.

Yahoo may hold a new record -- but it probably is not be the kind of record the tech giant was going for.

California has become the first state to mandate energy-efficiency standards for monitors and a variety of computers, including notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has asked Uber Technologies to first get a permit for testing its self-driving cars on the roads of San Francisco, a step that the company has so far refused to do.

Google may know more about me than I know about myself.

I'm not just saying that, either: I recently started poking around in Google's personal data repositories and realized that, between my wide-reaching use of the company's services and my own brain's inability to remember anything for more than seven seconds, Google may actually have the upper hand when it comes to knowledge about my life.

From face-tagged photos of my past adventures (what year did I go to Nashville, again... Читать дальше...

Security researchers are disturbed that it took Yahoo three years to discover that details on more than 1 billion user accounts had been stolen in 2013.

It's many moons ago and, with an upgrade to the company's online transaction processing system due shortly, this pilot fish is tasked with checking over the most recent revisions to the system's user manual.

Melding Smalltalk and JavaScript for web development, the Amber language will get user experience improvements, better performance, and support for current JavaScript loaders.

Two years ago Microsoft did the unthinkable: It declared it would open-source its .Net server-side cloud stack with the introduction of .Net Core. The announcement was surprising, thanks to Microsoft’s long-running feuds with open-source projects, as well as its history of portraying open source as a threat to the software economy.

This USB-C cable connects your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with Lightning connector to your computer's USB-C port for syncing and charging.  Currently discounted 51% on Amazon from Apple, taking its typical list price down to just $19. See the discounted cable on Amazon.