Новости за 13.04.2016

The burden of Microsoft’s efforts to secure Windows 10 is now falling on PC, tablet, and smartphone makers.

It’s always encouraging to hear about women kicking ass and taking names in the technology sector, but the loss of former DARPA director Regina Dugan is surely a huge blow to Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) group.

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Turning data into insight is one of the top business challenges today, and it becomes especially tricky when the data in question is unstructured. Artificial intelligence has a mixed track record there, but a young startup aims to get better results by bringing humans back into the picture.

If you’ve been test driving the Android N preview, get ready for a new batch of features and some badly needed bug fixes.

Facebook’s quest to improve Internet access has come down to Earth with experimental wireless gear for cities and rural areas. At the company’s F8 conference on Wednesday, Facebook networking chief Jay Parikh introduced a super-high-frequency wireless backbone called Terragraph and a 96-antenna cellular base station named Aries.

You’re a nice person: devoted, hardworking. And every year you find yourself taking an hour or two from your vacation to stress about some petty meeting someone else should be taking. An updated Automatic Replies feature from Outlook promises to put you back on the beach.

Ever since North Korea directly connected to the Internet in 2010, there’s been a lot of interest in how the world’s most closed country maintains and uses the link.

Facebook’s plan to connect the world to the Internet is ambitious. It also has many arms. There’s Aquila, the solar-powered plane that will beam Internet to the ground. Then there’s Project ARIES, a plan to extend connectivity to rural areas cheaper and faster, so people who live close to cities will be able to access the Internet. But Facebook’s newest project is on the ground. It’s called Terragraph, a low-cost, high-speed wireless network that will replace fiber in big cities.

Windows Hello’s face- or fingerprint-login feature promises to make passwords a thing of the past. But if you’re still confused about how biometric logins can make your life easier, Microsoft has published a quick demonstration to show you.

If there are two hot new tech trends that make their users look colossally dumb, it’s virtual reality and selfie sticks. At its F8 developer conference today, Facebook showed how the two can be brought together in an unholy marriage.

The FBI reportedly paid professional hackers a one-time fee for a previously unknown vulnerability that allowed the agency to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter.

Tough choice this weekend: Two open betas, both for upcoming shooters. Do you go with Doom and all its demonic gloom and gibs? Or Battleborn and its...wait, what did Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford call it? Oh yeah:

Google Play games is finally fulfilling a promise to appeal more to gamers and unbundle from Google+. 

Netflix has kicked off its support for HDR video, providing more vibrant visuals on supported TV sets.

With rivals Nvidia and AMD both offering graphics processors, Intel is now deploying screaming co-processors of its own in the form of FPGAs.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has advanced a bill to give email and cloud-stored data new privacy protections from law enforcement searches.

It’s easy to feel like you don’t have enough time to start that new workout regimen. Google Calendar wants to help by penciling in some time for that new commitment to fitness based on your daily schedule.

As I’ve written several times before, streaming video has a “what to watch” problem. There are so many streaming apps and services, each with their own video selections and menu systems, that the decision can feel paralyzing.

Sling TV has answered subscribers’ cries for multiple stream support and regional sports. But as is often the case in the world of TV bundles, there’s a catch.

Despite working on self-driving cars, virtual reality, and other side projects, Google still makes most of its money from the web. That’s why the company pays so much attention to protecting users from malicious content online. In recent years, Google has beefed up its Safe Browsing initiative to protect Chrome users—as well as users of other browsers—from a wide array of devious online threats.

Amazon is turning the e-reader into a luxury item with the new Kindle Oasis.

Microsoft and the Samba project fixed a vulnerability in their implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol after the flaw was initially announced three weeks ago under the name Badlock.

The battle against “bad” USB Type-C cables has a new ally: The USB 3.0 Promoters Group. The coalition—made up of tech company heavyweights including HP, Intel, and Microsoft—announced the USB Type-C Authentication specification on Tuesday. The new spec will allow devices to confirm the integrity of a USB-C charger, cable, or device before allowing data or significant power to run through it.

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