Новости за 21.01.2016

Verizon says it will have the first 5G network in the U.S., a promise it probably can't fulfill until 2020 but will start working at this year. 

One of the drawbacks of electric vehicles (EV) is that it can take up to 8 hours to fully charge their lithium-ion batteries.

It's notable enough that close to half of the 25 "best jobs in America" named by recruiting site Glassdoor this week are tech-related, but even more striking is the fact that "data scientist" tops the list.

Google yesterday announced that a new in-house compression algorithm, dubbed "Brotli," will soon be added to Chrome to speed up page loading times and reduce data consumption on mobile.

Unix systems make it easy to make output that you don't want to see simply disappear. Toss output into the void. Send errors in one direction, useful output in another. Something of a bit bucket, black hole, and digital garbage disposal, /dev/null is one of the very clever things that Unix introduced into the computing world. And what a very clever and unusual one!

Cisco Systems has released software updates to fix critical issues that could allow attackers to compromise digital encoders, unified computing system management servers and Firepower 9000 series security appliances.

A few months ago, my company, CrowdFlower, ran a machine learning competition on Kaggle. It perfectly highlighted the biggest opportunity (and challenge) with machine learning: What do you do with an 80% accurate algorithm?

Ah, battery life. It's a never-ending struggle we mere humans have with these powerful pocket-sized devices that rule our lives. We depend on them to keep us connected, on time, and even entertained -- but then they have the audacity to go and die on us before the day's over.

About five years ago, I buried my desk phone. There wasn’t a ceremony, and by “bury” I mean I put it in the garbage and figure it ended up (sadly) in a landfill somewhere. Feel free to point out that I could have donated the phone or recycled it somehow, but there are times when you just need to rip something out of your office and make it extinct.

Your resume is how you sell yourself to a hiring manager or a recruiter, which means you want to avoid a long list of job descriptions. That's the mistake resume writer Andrew Ysasi, president of Admovio and executive director of Kent Record Management, says that Kristine Spence made in her original resume. She focused on highlighting her work experience, but neglected to demonstrate the impact she had on the bottom line of her former companies and the impressive trajectory of her career from manager to senior director of digital marketing. Читать дальше...

After being caught off guard by the disclosure of a serious flaw in the Linux kernel this week, Google has quickly developed a patch for Android and shared it with device manufacturers.

Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and for an 11-day stint, its CEO, yesterday announced a new browser called "Brave," that blocks outside online ads and ad tracking.

Apple’s relationship with Europe intensified this morning, as the company announced its new App Development Center in Italy and revealed previously unseen data exploring the impact of the App economy on European employment.

Facebook wants to grab the large audiences that football attracts and has launched Facebook Sports Stadium, which it describes as a dedicated place to experience sports in real time "with your friends and the world."

A few years ago, it was agile. Then came lean. Somewhere in there, DevOps raised its head. All variations on a theme, these approaches are all about taking enterprise development teams (and, more broadly, enterprise organizations) into the 21st century.

Large contract manufacturer Foxconn has bid to take over ailing Sharp for its display business and manufacturing know-how, according to news reports.

The fight for privacy advanced in the U.S. with 16 states and the District of Columbia introducing legislation that addresses such issues as requiring permission before student data is shared for non-educational purposes and warrants before using cell-tower simulators to intercept phone calls.

Most major tech companies increased the amount of money they spent attempting to influence lawmakers and the regulatory process in Washington through federal lobbying.

This 300-person company has been in the same offices for years, but an influx of high-priced real estate developments nearby means it's time to move, according to this pilot fish.

I had arrived home from visiting my family last Saturday around 10 p.m., and noticed a couple of email messages arriving from a CPA customer, just before I went to bed. I took a quick glance, immediately spotting the phrases “none of our programs work” and “all the file names on our server have changed.” Those phrases were all of the symptoms I needed. As I would confirm later, the customer had been struck by ransomware. 

In November, Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4. With the final release due out in the second half of this year, TP4 gives us the latest look at where Microsoft's flagship operating system is heading. There are several interesting spots to look at and some licensing news that is controversial. I put the release through its paces for around a month; here are my observations.

In this "cars n' copters" edition of Mingis on Tech, Executive News Editor Ken Mingis sits down to talk drones with Contributing Writer Michael deAgonia and Detroit with Senior Writer Lucas Mearian.

FireEye has acquired Texas-based iSight Partners for $200 million, a deal that executives say will give FireEye stronger intelligence about cybercriminal and hacking groups before they strike.

The Los Angeles City Attorney filed criminal cases against two drone pilots on Wednesday for allegedly flying their drones in controlled airspace.

MIT is offering an online course about the Internet of Things, and this is what you need to know up front: It's going to require, perhaps, six to eight hours of study time a week, which includes watching videos of lectures, engaging with faculty and fellow students in forums and taking tests.