Новости за 18.04.2016

When The Muppets Studio wanted Miss Piggy to be able to chat with her fans, executives there decided to connect her with a new Facebook Messenger chatbot.

A NASA-developed air traffic control system for drones could take a major step forward this week when up to 24 drones take to the skies from locations across the U.S. in the agency's first coordinated test.

The cyber readiness team that's part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has advised Windows users to uninstall Apple's QuickTime media player from their PCs.

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don't seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB.

A web browser is an attack surface. Because it downloads stuff from the Internet, it can download something malicious that infects your computer. Even reputable websites have been infected with malicious ads.

Neither humans nor A.I. has proven overwhelmingly successful at maintaining cybersecurity on their own, so why not see what happens when you combine the two? That's exactly the premise of a new project from MIT, and it's achieved some impressive results.

The wave of rogue USB-C products that poses risks to PCs and mobile devices hasn't gone unnoticed, and the USB Implementers Forum has taken steps to eradicate the issue once and for all.

Japanese researchers have developed a thin-film electronic display that is a magnitude of order thinner than the human epidermis, allowing it to be laminated on to a person's skin without the wearer knowing it's there.

IT employees at EmblemHealth are organizing to stop the New York-based employer from outsourcing their jobs to offshore provider Cognizant.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a copyright infringement case against Google for its now 12-year-old effort to scan books and allow people to search them online.

You might know that if a hacker has nothing more than your phone number, then he or she can listen into and record your calls, read your texts, or track your location, but does your grandma know it? That’s what I liked about a 60 Minutes phone hacking segment; it can reach non-security minded audiences who may have thought such a hack could only happen in movies.

Almost a year after Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team had its internal emails and files leaked online, the hacker responsible for the breach published a full account of how he infiltrated the company's network.

For today only, Amazon is featuring deals on highly rated surge protectors from Belkin that will save you up to 64%. 

Cloud computing is changing the game for one of the hardest problems in IT: Running a network.

If your Mac isn't fast enough to edit 3D video, HP has a workaround to make it possible.

Microsoft has been trying to get the world to use Windows as a mobile operating system since the days of Windows CE, way back in 1996. For 20 years, it has failed, over and over again.

Apple’s biometric Touch ID system is pretty useful. It lets you use your fingerprint to pay for groceries using Apple Pay; purchase apps from the App Store; to acquire great content from iTunes; to unlock some third-party apps and as an alternative to logging into your device. And there are a few lesser known tricks to make using Touch ID even better, so read on:

Apple last week opposed the Department of Justice's renewed demand that it assist investigators in accessing a drug dealer's iPhone, arguing that the government has not proved the company's help is required.

The European Commission is still investigating whether Google’s Android operating system and Amazon’s contracts with e-book publishers have broken antitrust rules, its Competition Commissioner said Monday in Amsterdam.

It's become almost a cliché to say that mobile is having a seismic impact on all of technology and that no vertical right now is feeling it more than retail. But every now and then, an example illustrates what a complete reversal in thinking mobile is causing.

This year's iPhone might not be the iPhone 7. That's because next year is the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone, so don't expect a huge Apple redesign until 2017.

A British Airways aircraft was possibly hit by a drone Sunday near Heathrow airport as it was coming to land. The incident is likely to increase demands for greater checks on flights of the devices.

Over the last few years, Apple's mobile product cycle has revolved around "bigger and thinner." Now that mantra has been flipped on its head by Apple's latest releases -- the 9.7-in. iPad Pro and the 4-in. iPhone SE -- that emphasize the notion that smaller might just be better.

When President Obama said in Havana last month that Google would be working to improve Internet access in Cuba, I wondered what Google might do in Cuba that other companies could not.

This IT pilot fish has a co-worker who keeps a hands-free Bluetooth device clipped to the sun visor in his car, so he can handle mobile calls while he's driving.