Новости за 21.09.2015

The latest version of a walking, quadruped battlefield robot from Boston Dynamics, the military robotics maker owned by Google X, was tested by U.S. Marines last week.

Apple is revving up its efforts to produce a semi or fully autonomous electric car, and it has set its projected ship date for 2019, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Carly Fiorina, surging in the polls thanks to her performance in the Republican presidential debate last week, is not to be underestimated or believed.

Samsung is expected to launch its own smartphone leasing plan, following the recent lead of Apple in a long-term attempt to wrest customer control away from U.S. carriers.

In case you haven’t noticed, modern cars are essentially high-end computers with an engine, some shiny metal parts and four wheels.

One of the key ways of getting businesses to adopt new technology is to ensure that it meets with all of users' discovery and compliance requirements, including data retention and deletion.

China's government must halt economic espionage in cyberspace, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice warned on Monday, days before Chinese President Xi Jinping is due in Washington on an official visit.

Adobe Systems released new updates for Flash Player to patch critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to install malware on computers.

Hewlett-Packard has faced no end of financial and legal woes in recent months, and on Friday it was hit with one more: A new lawsuit filed by the state of Michigan over a $49 million project the state says is still not completed after 10 years.

WatchOS 2 is the second version of the operating system that powers the Apple Watch lineup, and it arrives about five months after the wearable's debut -- and five days after it was originally expected. Even though it's been only a few months since supplies caught up with the initial high demand, development of the underlying operating system has continued.

Although it initially tempted Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 has increasingly grown its usage share at the expense of the much more widely used Windows 7, an encouraging sign for Microsoft's efforts to convince the old guard to switch.

Your relationship with your customer has become increasingly personal. Your business is starving for customer analytics that help you better understand each individual customer — not just a broad customer segment.

Attackers have installed malicious firmware on nearly 200 Cisco routers used by businesses from over 30 countries, according to Internet scans performed by cybercrime fighters at the Shadowserver Foundation.

If your iPhone or iPad seems slower now you’ve installed iOS 9, please try these simple tips – they may be all it takes to get things running smoothly again.

Issues with new features

By most measures, Windows 10 is a huge improvement over Windows 8 and 8.1, and it’s a very worthwhile upgrade from Windows 7. But, of course, no new OS is perfect upon launch. Here are 6 issues with some of its new features. Many of these could be considered minor infractions (and can be adjusted by the user), so we rank them from “this is not that big of a deal” to “OK, this could be bad.”

It's a feeling that's all too familiar in many an IT department: On the one hand, staffers need to keep the lights on, the systems humming, the uptime up. On the other, they're being asked to help their companies innovate, and to do so at an ever-faster pace. It's almost as if they're being torn in two.

Apple iOS App Store suffers major malware attack: Dubbed XcodeGhost, the malware has been found in more than 300 popular apps so far.

It's easy to dismiss virtual assistants as parlor tricks, irrelevant gimmicks or even fatally flawed.

Local government help-desk pilot fish gets a message via email from a user:

A hearing for the extradition to the U.S. of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom began Monday in Auckland, New Zealand, with a number of civil rights activists, including Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, opposing the hand over.

Apple has brought down a large number of apps from its store after it was found that around 40 iOS apps had been infected by a modified version of the company's software for developers.