Новости за 27.04.2016

Although weaker iPhone sales were certainly the biggest contributor to Apple's downturn in the March quarter, the Mac and iPad also failed to hold up their ends, an analyst contended today.

With some technical help from NASA, aerospace company SpaceX plans to launch a mission to Mars as soon as 2018.

The U.S. House of Representatives, in a rare unanimous vote, has approved a bill to strengthen privacy protections for email and other data stored in the cloud.

If you've been looking to really step up your coffee game, take a look at this: The highly rated De'Longhi America EN750MB Nespresso Lattissima Pro Machine has been discounted rather dramatically from its regular listing price of $799.99. Slashed by over $320, you can buy this impressive unit on Amazon currently for $479. The EN750MB averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 120 reviewers (77% rate it 5 stars -- read reviews). 

Who doesn't love a good adapter? The USB3S2SAT3CB USB 3.0 to SATA adapter cable lets you connect a 2.5" SATA hard drive or solid state drive to your computer through an available USB port. This is one of those geeky adapters you're going to want to keep on hand. 

Intel is making it easier to create smarter and more functional gadgets, robots, drones, and wearables using its Edison developer board.

The use of H-1B visas has emerged as a significant issue in this presidential contest. That might be due, in part, to a Fort Worth, Texas, woman, Jennifer Wedel.

The Dell XPS 13 9343-2727SLV 13.3" Full HD Signature Edition Laptop is powerful, feature-packed, and currently discounted over $1,600 on Amazon, making this a very good option for the money if you're considering a new machine for home or school. With the current 69% discount you can order it for just $719 via Amazon.

Twitter, industry analysts generally agree, is a company doing really cool things, but it continues to disappoint investors.

Once again, No Starch Press has teamed up with Humble Bundle to offer an incredible selection of computing e-books at a ridiculously low price. And this time the bundle covers one of the most relevant and exciting technology areas – hacking! And, to be frank, the Humble Hacker’s Book Bundle -- available until May 11th – includes some of the best security/hacking books available today. Check them out at https://www.humblebundle.com.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk gave the world a peek into how the company plans to follow its latest electric vehicle, the Model 3 sedan, saying the fourth generation of the vehicle will be affordable to nearly everyone.

Samsung will start shipping its eight-core Artik 10 board computer next month, a challenger to the Raspberry Pi 3.

Apple yesterday said it sold 4 million Macs in the March quarter, a 12% decline from the same period the year before, and a larger contraction than for the personal computer business as a whole.

Google wants to take some of the pain out of scheduling work meetings with a new feature the company launched for its Calendar product on Wednesday.

Oh noes, Apple iPhone sales crashed in Q2: The results were worse than analysts expected. And it doesn't look like the mid-price iPhone SE will help, at least in Q3.

I have been installing bug fixes on a number of Windows 7 computers lately and it has not gone well. Windows Update found the missing patches and installed them, but it took a loooooooooooooooooooooong time. Even machines with fast SSDs and a fast connection to the Internet, were painfully slow.

In today’s business environment, I am seeing more and more enterprises realize there are new rules for an industry they once dominated. Business capabilities can no longer be considered things that once discovered, only need to be perfected. As new businesses look for areas to grow, they are increasingly colliding with storied legacy businesses. This means that business capabilities need to be reviewed and reconsidered regularly based on marketplace change. Put simply, business capabilities need to grow and change. Читать дальше...

When it comes to data breaches, what big, bad cyber-boogeyman method should you fear and point the finger of blame at this year? The biggest security concern is not IoT, not mobile, not even ransomware; it’s you, us, mere humans, which are the weak link being exploited and the number one problem leading to breaches. It’s not some new attack attributed as the cause of most security incidents; oh no, it’s falling for phishing, which has been around since about the dawn of email.

A cyberespionage group active in Asia has been leveraging a Windows feature known as hotpatching in order to better hide its malware from security products.

At its simplest popular analysis of Apple’s latest financial results announcement has two memes that have become core to its ideology: that Apple without Steve Jobs can never succeed, and that iPhone is Apple’s only successful product.

Getty Images, a long-time critic of Google’s image search functionality, plans on Wednesday to file a competition law complaint against the search giant with the European Commission.

Adobe Analytics is a fairly robust Web analytics platform but not one that's particularly user friendly or visually compelling. The company has been making an effort of late -- its Analytics Workspace, while not quite as drag-and-drop easy as I initially hoped, at least gives users the option of more modern visualizations. Next up, expected to roll out this week, is a revamp to its visual "ClickMap" plug-in that allows customers to see analytics overlaid on pages of their websites.

Google, Uber, Ford, Volvo and Lyft form self-driving car 'advocacy' group. State and U.S. regulators seem poised to crack down on feet- and hands-free driving, so Google's gang wants to head them off.

The first big update to Windows 10 will come this summer, a year after the operating system's initial launch, with the release of what Microsoft is calling the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

IBM is expanding its flash storage lineup to power cloud data centers that carry out so-called cognitive computing.