Новости за 26.02.2016

The robotics industry, spurred on by demand in new markets and increasing labor costs, is expected to show strong growth through the rest of the decade, according to analyst firm IDC.

Intuit yesterday said it will complete the sale of is Quicken personal finance software by April 30.

It seems like a new announcement from Apple is always right around the corner. As we speak, Apple appears to be teeing up a new iPhone, Watch and iPad. All are expected to be improvements over previous models, and my guess is you'd consider buying one of them if you:

Continuing drops in lithium-ion battery prices mean that electric vehicles (EVs) will be less expensive to own than gas or diesel-powered vehicles as soon as the 2020s, according to a new report.

In a Windows 10 preview update issued this week, Microsoft mandated that the feedback functionality built into the beta be switched on, a change from earlier when testers could block questions from the company about what users thought of specific features.

The Internet is fragile. Many of its protocols were designed at a time when the goal was rapid network expansion based on trust among operators. Today, the Internet's open nature is what makes it so great for business, education and communication, but the absence of security mechanisms at its core is something that criminals are eager to exploit.

Most of us who choose a career in IT do so because we love the hands-on work. We start out on the front lines as a developer, DBA, designer, administrator or support tech. With time, we grow into new roles as our natural drive and curiosity prompt us to learn — about the technical areas we have chosen, the products and platforms we work on, the new technologies we’d like to work on and the roles we have yet to play in technical organizations and projects.

Neural networks are often used for image recognition, but it turns out they can create some pretty incredible images as well.

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook staff to know that black lives matter, and so wrote an excoriating memo to say so. Apparently, some employees in the Menlo Park campus have been defacing the BLM slogan, writing “All lives matter” in response.

Walk into a security operations center (SOC) and the first impression you get is of an immense war room, with large screens across the entire front wall displaying a world map and endless rows of tabular data.

Apple CEO, Tim Cook may be off battling the FBI’s surveillance dragons on his righteous quest to stop stupid governments undermining the mobile revolution when it’s only begun, but his company still has its eyes on where the puck will be. Here’s what we think we know about Apple’s forthcoming spring collection, coming into view (we think) March 15(?).

The tech industry is rallying behind Apple in its appeal against a court order asking it to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5c, with Facebook, Google and Microsoft planning submissions in court in support of the iPhone maker.

Apple iPad Pro confusion abounds, as a new rumor reads the next iPad is not the Air 3 that everyone expects. Instead, it’ll be an iPad Pro with similar guts and accessories, but smaller.

Predictive analytics can already help prevent churn and anticipate equipment failures, but MIT has applied it to a new realm altogether: protecting ships at sea from so-called "rogue waves."

The State of Connecticut, like many others, had to create a way for residents to buy health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as ObamaCare. Peter B. Nichol was one of the leaders who helped make that happen.

Frustrated by social networks' efforts to keep them at bay, the terrorist group ISIS has made direct threats against the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter.

This IT pilot fish has to make a trip to a remote data center -- far enough away that he'll have to stay overnight in a hotel.

Nordstrom, a longtime leader in customer service in-store, is learning how expensive a merged channel strategy is. But as it fights its way through new costs, it is illustrating the changing nature of retail itself.

In the past I've been involved with e-commerce businesses and have felt, firsthand, the pain caused by chargebacks. For anyone not in the e-commerce space, the chargeback concept might sound foreign. Essentially what it means is that if a fraudulent credit card transaction is disputed by the true cardholder, the vendor that made the charge has the funds reversed. Which sucks if the physical or virtual goods have already been sent -- the vendor is down the goods, and doesn't have the payment.

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption, big data, and other technology trends are generating large volumes and varieties of data for analysis. But data is not the limiting factor in transforming the business and practice of healthcare—managing the data is. If healthcare organizations want to use these technologies to create opportunities to differentiate, they must invest in the data itself.

At a congressional hearing today on the H-1B visa's impact on high-skilled workers, the first person to testify was Leo Perrero, a former Disney IT worker. He was overcome with emotion for parts of it, pausing to gather himself as he told the story of how he was replaced by a foreign visa holder.

Charging an electric car while driving may sound like a wild idea, but Qualcomm wants to bring that capability to automobiles.