Новости за 17.05.2017

Some people earn miles using their credit cards, others do it by actually flying somewhere. Today, Delta has added Lyft to its rewards program so you can accumulate miles from a service you might use more regularly — at least, more regularly than air travel.

After a year of incubation, Android Instant Apps are finally ready for the world. Originally announced at last year's Google I/O, Instant Apps are a way for developers to offer a lightweight version of their Android app without requiring a visit to the Play Store. You just click a link in your web browser and all of a sudden you're using a real Android app, with all the power that implies — other than a few safety restrictions. A few Instant Apps were made available in January as a trial run,... Читать дальше...

Twitter unveiled a new set of privacy and data controls today that allow users to see and control how advertisers target them on the platform. The company explains in a blog post that it’s expanding individual access “to give you the most transparent access to your Twitter information to date, including demographic and interest data, and advertisers that have included you in their tailored audiences on Twitter. Each category of data will be clearly marked, and you will be able to view or modify... Читать дальше...

When the ShadowBrokers first published the code for EternalBlue — an NSA exploit targeting Windows’ file-sharing protocol — researchers knew it was a bad bug. But most had no idea of the scale of the damage that would be caused by the vulnerability.

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Google said today that we’re going to start seeing appliances show up with support for the Google Assistant, and two companies are already launching integrations: LG and GE.

Google announced a few big updates for the Google Home today. None of them are game-changing on their own, but they all add up to a substantial update for the connected speaker. Details are pretty basic right now, and Google didn’t say when any of these features would arrive, but here’s the gist of what’s coming up for the Home.

Apple Music is cutting back on one of its defining characteristics: album exclusives. In a recent interview with Music Business Worldwide, Apple exec Jimmy Iovine said that the streaming service plans to be less aggressive about obtaining exclusives in the future. “We tried it,” he said. “We’ll still do some stuff with the occasional artist. The labels don’t seem to like it and ultimately it’s their content.”

Google is overhauling its Android Device Manager app, which is basically Android’s equivalent of Apple’s “Find My iPhone.” Now the two are much closer in name. As reported by Android Police, Google is in the process of rolling out a big update to the device-tracking software — and it’s getting a new, much more sensible name: Find My Device. You can expect to hear more about the update minutes from now during the I/O 2017 presentation, but the redesigned app is already live in the Play Store.

The Verge is on the ground to cover Google's biggest show of the year.

After last week’s massive ransomware attack shut down machines around the world, the NSA, which knew of the exploit before it was public, became a target for criticism. Microsoft patched the problem before the attack, but it’s still raised questions about how, and when, the NSA decides to hold on to software vulnerabilities.

For the first time since 2005's Enterprise, Star Trek is returning to television... sort of. Star Trek: Discovery will air on CBS's All-Access streaming service. Follow along for all of the developments, commentary, and trailers.

UK activist Muhammad Abdur Rabbani has been charged with obstruction of justice after refusing to provide encryption passwords to police at an airport stop in London. He is due to appear in court in Westminster, England on June 20th.

McDonald’s expanded its partnership with the food-delivery arm of Uber last month, and now we know exactly which cities are coming onboard for mobile McGriddle deliveries. Starting today, UberEats will support McDonald’s in more than 1,000 locations across the US, which now includes 300 in Los Angeles, California; 144 in Phoenix, Arizona; 270 in Chicago, Illinois; and 59 in Columbus, Ohio, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The Onion-owned clickbait parody site ClickHole has rebranded as PatriotHole, a parody of sensationalist conservative “news” sites and conspiracy blogs like Breitbart, Infowars, LifeZette, or The Blaze.

Arrested Development is coming back for its long-awaited fifth season, according to a press statement from Netflix. The entire cast of the original series is currently slated to return.

The one-night-only theatrical release of a new black-and-white cut of Logan was announced just three weeks in advance, with director James Mangold boasting a “sumptuous” experience for hardcore fans, and theaters announcing a black-and-white dress code for attendees. Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse went so far as to post a disclaimer saying that moviegoers were “required” to wear black and white and the dress code would be “strictly enforced.”

The US Army is confirming that Chelsea Manning has been released from detention at Ft. Leavenworth, in accordance with the commutation of her sentence. She had served just short of seven years under espionage charges.

Google I/O is Google’s annual developer conference, a three-day event where the company details the future of its various products and services, along with hosting education sessions for creators and developers who use those services.

Netflix is developing and producing an English-language TV show based on The Witcher. The franchise started life as a series of fantasy novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, before being turned into a number of critically acclaimed video games. Now it’s coming to the small screen, although there are no details on when the show might arrive.

I bought an Amazon Echo Dot on Black Friday as an experiment. I'm now this close from going all-in on an Alexa-based smart home. An Echo Show for the Kitchen, a few Dots for the kids' rooms and office, and maybe that lovely C lamp for the bedroom. It won't be cheap which is why I've been reluctant to commit. But now I have to rethink things after yesterday's announcement of the HTC U11 — the first smartphone with hands-free support for Alexa.

Apple has started assembling phones in India, completing a first trial run with the manufacture of its cheapest handset, the iPhone SE. This first step into the Indian market has been a long time coming, but Apple confirmed today to The Wall Street Journal that production has finally begun. The handsets are being assembled by Taiwanese contractor Wistron and will begin shipping to Indian customers some time this month.

The world’s oldest known computer lay submerged for more than 2,000 years off the treacherous coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Beneath the weight of the water, the sand, and the wrecked ship that once carried it, the ancient astronomical computer’s bronze gears and mechanical parts slowly warped and rusted.

Facebook has been fined €150,000 ($166,400) by France’s privacy watchdog for violating the country’s data protection rules. In a statement released Tuesday, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said Facebook has failed to properly inform users of how their personal data is tracked and shared with advertisers, though it stopped short of ordering the company to change its practices.

In April 2017, people using the music-recognition app Shazam might have noticed the app behaving a little oddly. Usually the mobile app identifies songs by comparing sound input to the sound records in an online database. But last month, users in the UK saw the app experiencing a little hiccup as it tried to spit out song names, Adweek reports. It was as if Shazam just couldn’t remember.