Новости за 17.03.2017

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has taken the wraps off a new battery energy storage project that will store up to 2 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 1,000 homes for four hours.

Another sizeable payment card data breach has been discovered at a U.S. restaurant chain.

Tableau has significantly expanded its custom mapping capabilities in version 10.2, allowing for importing your own geospatial files in GeoJSON, shapefile, KML and MapInfo formats. I finally had a chance to take Tableau 10.2's GIS functions for a spin, and it's a welcome addition.

Local police in Minnesota are trying to solve a bank fraud scheme by demanding Google give up data on people who looked up key search terms that may be related to crime.

For the ambitious IT professional, there are a number of ways to take advantage of today’s hot job market. You could patiently climb the ladder at your organization or jump to an attractive opportunity at another company … or you can go into business for yourself as a consultant.

Microsoft may be getting ready to enforce a new support policy for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 that was announced last year, a recently-revised support document signaled.

Several attacks observed over the past few months that rely heavily on PowerShell, open-source tools, and fileless malware techniques might be the work of a single group of hackers.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the use of web-based email or “webmail” was viewed as unprofessional and something that most people used only because it was free and convenient.

The Windows 10 Creators Update is due to ship sometime next month, and Microsoft is in the final stages of preparing for the release by rolling out new builds to about twice per week as it enters the last stages of bug squashing mode.

Facebook, Twitter and Google have been given a month to make changes to their user agreements in the European Union or face "enforcement action."

The Trump administration on Thursday released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal outlining changes to discretionary spending that, if implemented, would likely cut spending on renewable energy.

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Apple is to open two additional research and development centers in China. This follows a pattern the company has been engaged in for months, that of opening an international chain of R&D centers as it seeks to put together the knowledge base for its Next Big Thing (NBT). This growing network is so vast, it’s reasonable to assume that whatever the NBT is…

Another day, another tech rumor.

This time, we are talking about Google -- specifically the tech giant's upcoming phones. While we expected two new ones, like the company released last year, reports now indicate that a third phone could be in the works. And it already had a codename and everything. So what do we know so far?

In IT Blogwatch, we'll take the fish. 

So what is going on? Kevin Arnold introduces us to the issue:

It's fashion-show week in New York City, and for this apparel maker's IT department, that means all the users will be in one place, according to a pilot fish who has to support them.

Augmented and virtual reality are catching on, even if it is still early days for both.

Alphabet's autonomous car unit Waymo is concerned about giving Uber Technologies’ internal counsel extensive access to documents it filed under seal in connection with its lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets and patent infringement by the ride-hailing company.

When governments turn to private hackers to carry out state-sponsored attacks, as the FBI alleges Russia did in the 2014 breach of Yahoo, they're taking a big risk.

Google Home users got a surprise on Thursday when their virtual assistants cheerily mentioned that the live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast” is opening in theaters this weekend.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new type of radio-on-a-chip that could mean cheaper, more flexible wireless systems. Smartphone makers could, for example, use the technology to make a single model of each phone that works anywhere in the world.