Der amerikanische Geheimdienst NSA und sein britisches Pendant GCHQ haben sich wichtige Codes beschafft, um Handy-Verbindungen abzuhören. Dies zeigen Dokumente des NSA-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden.
Die meisten TV-Geräte der Südkoreaner sichern den durch die Spracherkennung verursachten Datenverkehr nicht ab. Das klang vergangene Woche noch anders.
Diese Netzthemen sollte man im Auge behalten: Facebook möchte Unternehmen nur noch bei effektiv wahrgenommener Werbung zur Kasse bitten; Jeb Bush feuerte seinen CTO wegen frauenfeindlichen und homophoben Aussagen auf Twitter.
In zwei Jahren soll der Handel mit gebrauchten Smartphones einen Umsatz von 14 Milliarden Dollar generieren.
Der grösste PC-Hersteller ist in die Kritik geraten, weil auf seinen Notebooks ein Programm mitgeliefert wird, das Kunden Reklame präsentiert – und ein Sicherheitsrisiko sein könnte.
Heute unter anderem lesenswert: 25 Jahre Photoshop, Songspur für Snapchat-Videos, Sony in der Dauerkrise, Samsung könnte Apple Pay Konkurrenz machen, Swisscom arbeitet an der Abschaffung der Roaminggebühren.
Warum es technisch schwierig ist, die Abwärme von Rechnern sinnvoll zu nutzen.
Der Genfer Game-Designer Ru Weerasurya über das Game-Geschäft und seinen neuen Titel «The Order: 1886».
Weitere drei Bitcoin-Dienste sind wohl Geschichte. Viele Nutzer haben ihre Guthaben verloren. In zwei weiteren Fällen gingen Angriffsversuche von Onlinekriminellen offenbar glimpflicher aus.
Ein neuer Dienst will Nutzer schneller zu interessanten Apps führen. Auch ein Schweizer Anbieter tummelt sich in diesem Geschäft.
Power train engineers, former Tesla employees, and an expert on new battery technology are among the people now working at Apple, amid rumors that the company is building an electric car. 9to5Mac has come up with For instance, new hire David Nelson came over from Tesla this month, bringing experience in “modeling, prediction, and verification of motor and gearbox performance and efficiency,” according to his LinkedIn profile. Hugh Jay, another new employee, designed transmissions and gearboxes at EMCO Gears, a parts supplier for various industries including motorsports.
If we're going to All those red and blue and whatever chests that you couldn't open before because they were tied to arbitrary progress in some mobile app you didn't want to use? Yeah, it's all gone. You can just open those chests now,
While most PC makers went into CES with guns blazing on new product announcements, Toshiba unveiled but three. Now we know why. The company was apparently just waiting for the noise of CES to settle down before announcing that yes, its The update is predictably Intel's latest Broadwell U CPU, specifically, a Core i7-5500U. Broadwell U was designed as a drop-in replacement, so nothing else really changes—and not all of that is a good thing.
On Thursday, IFTTT launched three new “Do” apps for iOS and Android, and the original IFTTT app we already know and love is getting a new name—going forward, it’s just
Everyone's gotta get somewhere, but which of these three apps can do so both accurately and efficiently?
There’s a reason that desktop publishing software is called, well, “desktop” publishing software. It’s because these resource-intensive applications often require the kind of processing horsepower and Internet bandwidth that mobile devices, like phones and tablets, simply don’t have—or didn’t have in the not-too-distant past. Today’s mobile devices are more powerful than ever. And while publishing and design apps for mobile devices remain rare, a decent selection of design apps is available for the iPad, and a few for Android tablets. (It may not surprise you to hear that design apps haven’t taken off on smartphones, thanks in large part to their smaller screens.) Here’s the lowdown on the apps we tested.
OneNote is the best Microsoft program you’re probably not using. If you’ve ignored the Microsoft has liberated its digital notebook from Office and put it just about everywhere: Mac, iOS, Android, Chrome, and of course Windows. Read on to discover everything you need to know to start creating a paperless life with OneNote. If you do a lot of notetaking, attend multiple meetings during the week, and collaborate with others on projects, then OneNote can keep that flood of info neat and tidy. All your notes—even words in pictures—are searchable inside OneNote, and they’re stored in the cloud and immediately accessible via the OneNote apps for any platform.
In the Tiny-in-One 23 and its companion Tiny Desktops, Lenovo has created a viable modular system that will fill IT hearts with joy—and one of the nicest, sanest, all-in-ones on the market. The $279 Lenovo Tiny-in-One 23 is a cleverly designed display/docking system that marries with any of Lenovo’s Tiny Desktop small-form-factor computers. Combining the two is a simple, tool-less process that takes less than a minute, including cable hookups. Both are also perfectly useable as discrete entities. There are currently four of the approximately 3-pound, 7-inch square, 1.35-inch thick Tiny Desktops available: the M53, M73, M83, and M93P. The latter three come with a variety of processors, storage devices, and up to 16GB of memory. The M53 maxes out at 8GB. Pricing starts at approximately $450 and tops out at over $1100. All carry a three-year warranty with Lenovo’s usual variety of extended service and support options available. All, of course, may be used with the Tiny-in-One 23.