Новости за 03.11.2016

In the cybersecurity world, the law doesn’t always treat the good guys like good guys.

Microsoft has announced a Unified Update Platform that's designed to make it easier for devices to upgrade from one version of Windows 10 to another. 

Analysts disagree drastically over the health of the smartwatch market. Some say the market is tanking. Others say there are favorable signs and predict healthy smartwatch shipments and sales in coming years.

Boston—Cybersecurity experts and those new to the space gathered together at the Federal Reserve Bank to join the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) for Massachusetts Cybersecurity 2.0: Preparing for the Next Wave of Cyber Challenges.

Ford Motor Co. said today that its next-generation advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will enable vehicles to automatically back into parking spaces, detect objects in the road to avoid collisions and prevent wrong-way driving.

For a long time, law enforcement agencies and hackers have been able to track the identity and location of mobile users by setting up fake cellular network towers and tricking their devices into connecting to them. Researchers have now found that the same can be done much more cheaply with a simple Wi-Fi hotspot.

Google Assistant is suddenly on its way to being everywhere. It's the heart of the new Google Home tabletop gadget, it's the secret sauce inside the new A.I.-enhanced Google Allo chat app, and it's a core feature of the new Pixel flagship phone. And all of that's just the start: Assistant will almost certainly be expanding onto even more Android devices (and non-Android devices) in the foreseeable future.

A hyperscale cloud data center looks different from an enterprise data center, or even a large hosting provider. The problems they face are different from the problems you face. And your approach to everything from how you choose a site to how you manage power to how long you keep servers is not their approach.

Google rejected European Commission antitrust charges related to its online shopping search service, saying the online shopping marketplace is "robustly competitive."

Wix, the provider of a widely used cloud-based web development platform, appears to have had a significant bug on its hands that could have paved the way for a computer worm to do serious damage to websites around world.

I'm not an especially fit person, by most standards -- I try to walk each morning and walk (rather than drive) to do my errands, and I get up from my desk chair at regular intervals, but that's about the extent of my exertions. As a result, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the current enthusiasm for fitness "watches" such as the Fitbit Charge 2 and other wearables.

Most organizations have well established procedures for vetting and sharing computer code. But what about data analysis?

One of the biggest issues with high-end virtual reality experiences is that they often require people to nvest thousands of dollars in powerful computers in order to work. One solution to this is the VR arcade, where operators buy machines and then rent time on them to the public.

Google Home, the company's new voice-controlled interface to the internet, is hardly the first to appear on the consumer market. But it may be the best -- although "best" may not yet be good enough.

The Privacy Shield transatlantic data transfer deal is now caught in a pincer action: A week after it emerged that Irish digital rights activists had filed suit to annul the deal come reports that a French campaign group has begun its own legal action.

Three years after Target missed alerts warning them about a massive data breach, the amount of threat information coming in from security systems is still overwhelming for many companies, according to new reports, due to a lack of expertise and integration issues.

Chatting is all the rage these days. With the aid of technology, of course -- who does that in person anymore?

Taking a cue from Uber drivers, a "foot and bike" courier has filed a lawsuit against the ride-hailing company and a subsidiary, demanding minimum wages and reimbursement of tools-of-the-trade expenses and gratuities as would be typically provided to regular employees.

From the specs, it looks like Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops may be the fastest laptops on the market. 

The composition of Infosys' U.S. workforce is too lopsided -- overwhelmingly South Asian -- to be an accident, allege the plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit.

This IT pilot fish is working for a federal agency contractor as a software instructor -- but he has more to offer than just his teaching abilities.

Samsung's cancellation of the Galaxy Note7 hurt Qualcomm's chip sales, but the company expects other smartphones to fill that void.

When it comes to enterprise data visualization, IBM Software Engineer Rosstin Murphy thinks augmented reality trumps virtual reality. In his view, VR's "transportational" nature makes it less suited to business applications.

The closely watched launch on Wednesday of Microsoft's Teams, a rival to chat platforms Slack and HipChat, shows how important this kind of collaboration is for any company that wants to dominate workday life. Cisco Systems is no exception.

A battle between the U.S. government and China is now brewing in the market for semiconductors, the foundation of electronics.