Новости за 29.03.2017

Google’s Calendar app is making a long-awaited move to a new device: Apple’s iPad. You read that right: Until Wednesday, the tech titan hadn’t optimized its marquee calendar application to run on Apple’s tablets.

Facebook's latest moves take yet another page from Snapchat, and the company may need to figure out how to become innovative again.

Java’s Object.finalize capability is on the chopping block, deemed more trouble than it’s worth. But expect it to stick around for a while.

President Donald Trump now uses an iPhone to broadcast his famous early-morning tweets, according to the White House.

Samsung launched sleek new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones Wednesday with features including facial recognition, an intelligent agent called Bixby and Samsung Pass for secure e-commerce mobile payments.

“The only thing I hate about this phone is how hot it gets…”

That’s one of my kids complaining about the Samsung Galaxy S7, a remarkable device that runs on the Android operating system as though Samsung and Google were best buddies. Over the course of the day, the phone will heat up slightly, and if you leave it in the car on a sunny day, watch out.

The phone has an amazing screen and takes beautiful images. Unlike the Galaxy Note 7 that can actually heat up and explode (and which you cannot take on a plane)... Читать дальше...

The source code for a new Trojan program that targets banking services has been published online, offering an easy way for unskilled cybercriminals to launch potent malware attacks against users.

Microsoft has been cautious about making its Surface product line available worldwide. It tests devices in specific markets, sees how they do, and if the response is good, ships them to those areas.

Developers. Apple cares about you and is improving its App Stores to make life better for you. That, it seems, is the message following the flurry of changes the company has made, changes that show it has heard and is responding to some of the problems developers moan about.

Do you know how much the Empire State Building weighs?

That’s one question -- with no correct answer -- that Google famously asks during its notoriously difficult job interviews. Others include: “Name a brand that represents you as a person,” (Twitter); “How many happy birthday posts do you think Facebook gets in one day?” (Facebook); and “What’s the first thing you’d print with a 3D printer if you had one?” (Rackspace).

One of the reasons for these tough, strange or unexpected questions... Читать дальше...

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Privacy advocates haven't given up the fight after Congress voted to allow ISPs to sell customers' browsing histories and other personal information without their permission.

Samsung introduced a docking device called DeX on Wednesday that will work with its next-generation smartphones also announced today at a New York event -- the Galaxy S8 and S8+.

Samsung's new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones -- officially announced today -- look beautiful, and are loaded with new features that could make an upgrade worthwhile.

A new variant of the Mirai IoT malware was spotted in the wild when it launched a 54-hour DDoS attack against an unnamed US college.

After months of waiting, beta tests, and trickles of information about new features, the next major update for Windows 10 will arrive on April 11. Microsoft announced Wednesday that the Creators Update, as it’s known, will start rolling out to users of the company’s latest operating system in roughly two weeks.

Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always "use it" or maybe as much as "use it -- a lot."

Facebook has gotten really good at copying Snapchat.

So good, in fact, that it is doing it again, adding a Stories-like feature into yet another of its apps. But why does Facebook keep doing this, and what does it mean for users?

In IT Blogwatch, we share our story. 

So what is going on? Elyse Betters shares some background:

Reports recently surfaced that Google was alerted to security holes in its IoT security camera products and declined to patch them. This was quite frightening for two reasons. First, the fix was apparently straightforward, and second, the hole was readily and easily available to burglars with even a modicum of tech savviness.

When Scott Copeland got his associate degree in network administration back in 2004, the community college he attended didn’t offer IT security courses, “but it gave me the foundation to learn more about network security,” he says. His determination and thirst for learning led him to his current job as an IT security engineer at FedEx Services in Memphis, Tenn.

Programmer pilot fish gets a deskside visit from one of his company's big bosses -- and he has a very specific question.

The U.S. House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to repeal privacy rules that can prevent broadband providers from selling customers’ internet-browsing histories and other data without their permission.

The landmark Moore's Law observation, which is now more than 50 years old, keeps shapeshifting as the physical challenges of making smaller chips mounts.

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