Новости за 11.12.2015

The online activist group Anonymous said it took down the Trump Tower website on Friday after it warned presidential candidate Donald Trump about his statements on banning Muslims from entering the U.S.

Listen in on any conversation about big data, and you'll probably hear mention of Hadoop or Apache Spark. Here's a brief look at what they do and how they compare.

Ford has announced plans to increase its spending on electric vehicle (EV) development by $4.5 billion over the next five years, and it plans to roll out 13 new EVs over that time.

A group of hackers that primarily targets companies from key industries in Asia is using heavily modified versions of a backdoor program called Bifrose that dates back to 2004.

Hear ye, hear ye, technology-buying citizens of the Internuts. Let it be known: All Chromebooks are not created equal.

The timing for this controversy could not be any worse.

This week, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus jumped all over DirecTV for an ad they say is dishonest. It’s the one where supermodel Hannah Davis is walking on the beach with a horse and explains how 4K is so amazing.

DirectTV is the only satellite provider that offers the service, but the NAD received complaints from other providers like Charter Communications that the ad makes it seem... Читать дальше...

I recently took over responsibility for IT at my church, an urban congregation with around 500 members, just finishing its first year in a new facility. Most of their core network gear is, as with most other smaller organizations, stuck in a closet which is also used for storage. Recently, I surveyed the equipment in that closet, which by appearance did not amount to much. After a more detailed review, the closet actually contained eight networked devices, including three Internet gateways, a firewall... Читать дальше...

SwiftKey has a new keyboard app: Symbol. But it’s not a conventional QWERTY typer, but a visual-based system, aimed at non-verbal autistic people, and others with special needs.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has morphed from a vocal supporter of the H-1B program to a leading critic of it. He has done so in a new H-1B reform bill designed to raise the cost of hiring temporary visa workers.

Global business and financial information network, Bloomberg, this morning announced the all-new Bloomberg Professional app for the iPad Pro – and that’s a big deal for Cupertino.

Flashback to 2000, when this pilot fish is the newly hired IT manager for a small company with three major branches spread across a continent.

New networks being built with far less fanfare than cell towers will connect objects that in some cases have never been linked before, like street lights and traffic signals. The latest, called Starfish, is now debuting in Silicon Valley.

Security guards in Japan have a new tool to deter intruders: a drone that will chase down and follow people without human intervention.

When Target on Wednesday (Dec. 9) opened its Target Wonderland in New York City, it described the pop-up as a "16,000-square-foot part-store, part-holiday playground." And although that's a fair description, it was actually a clever retail IT RFID trial. Target corporate has a vision of a new kind of physical store to compete with online rivals, one that attempts to sidestep the drudgery of shopping by wiping out the need for customers to lug around their purchases through the store's aisles.

Facebook is releasing the hardware design for a server it uses to train artificial intelligence (A.I.) software, allowing other companies exploring A.I. to build similar systems.

Samsung has announced it will begin manufacturing electronics parts for the automotive industry, with a specific focus on autonomous vehicles.