Multi-Roboter-Systeme lassen sich künftig über pheromonbasierte Kommunikation wie Insektenschwärme koordinieren. Pheromone dienen als Botenstoffe zur Informationsübertragung. Das Pheromonsystem der Spezialisten der britischen University of Lincoln arbeitet zuverlässig und kostengünstig. Via LCD-Bildschirm und USB-Kamera kann der Nutzer verschiedene Pheromone simulieren und ihre Kraft verändern.
Der Redmonder Softwareriese Microsoft arbeitet bei der weiteren Entwicklung seiner Hologramm-Brille Hololens künftig mit der Software-Design-Spezialistin Autodesk zusammen. Gemeinsam wollen die amerikanischen Unternehmen neue Lösungen zum gemeinschaftlichen Arbeiten an 3D-Modellen vorantreiben, die sich im realen Umgebungsraum befinden. Beide arbeiteten bereits seit einem Jahr an dem Projekt Freeform, heisst es in einem Blogeintrag von Autodesk-Mitarbeiterin Garin Gardiner.
Laut einem vom Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in Strassburg gesprochenen Urteil, hat die türkische Regierung mit einer mehr als zweijährigen Youtube-Blockade gegen die Menschenrechtskonvention zur Informationsfreiheit verstossen.
Die Winterthurer Init7 Holding übernimmt den im innerschweizerischen Root angesiedelten Triple-Play-Anbieter Easyzone von Nexanet und baut damit ihr Engagement im Glasfaser-Markt weiter aus. Über die finanziellen Details hüllten die involvierten Parteien den Mantel des Schweigens.
Der Internetgigant Google hat sich mit Robert Rose einen Software-Spezialisten für sein Roboter-Projekt geangelt, der zuletzt eine wichtige Rolle bei Teslas "Autopilot"-Funktion gespielt hat, die bei selbstfahrenden Autos automatisch den richtigen Abstand und Spur hält. Rose kehrte dem Elektrofahreughersteller Tesla jetzt aber nach nur einem halben Jahr wieder den Rücken.
Mit dem Beginn des neuen Jahres wird die Schweizer Kabelnetzbetreiberin und Telekomanbietrin UPC Cablecom schlicht und einfach nur noch UPC heissen. Der Zusatz Cablecom soll für immer verschwinden. Der Aufschwung der vergangenen Jahre soll unter "UPC" prolongiert werden, sagt CEO Eric Tveter.
PwC Schweiz übernimmt die Zürcher digitale Manufaktur für Web- und Mobile-Applikationen iBrows. Parallel dazu soll am Firmensitz von iBrows in der Limmatstadt das neue digitale "Experience Center" von PwC entstehen. Dieses sei Teil eines weltweiten Netzwerks mit über 3000 Spezialisten im Bereich Digital, teilt PwC via Aussendung mit.
Seit dem Spätsommer bietet die Fernfachhochschule Schweiz (FFHS) ein praxisintegriertes Bachelor-Studium in Informatik (PiBS) an. Es richtet sich an gymnasiale Maturanden, die ein Hochschulstudium mit der Berufspraxis kombinieren möchten. Neben Unternehmen wie die Post und Swisscom bietet nun laut FFHS-Aussendung auch Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) als Praxispartner zwei PiBS-Studienplätze an ihrem Standort in Zürich an.
Die Swisscom Health hat den Zuschlag für den Aufbau und den Betrieb einer E-Health-Plattform für die Berner Insel Gruppe erhalten, zu der das Inselspital sowie fünf Standorte der Spital Netz Bern zählen. Die sechs Spitäler wollen über die geplante Plattform mit Partnerspitälern, Praxisärzten, Pflegeheimen oder der Spitex künftig administrative und medizinische Informationen austauschen. Auch sollen die damit die Voraussetzungen für die Umsetzung des Bundesgesetzes über das elektronische Patientendossier geschaffen werden.
Der südkoreanische Elektronikriese Samsung will das zuletzt harzende Smartphone-Geschäft mit einem neuen Manager wieder auf Schiene bringen. Die den Weltmarkt noch immer anführenden Südkoreaner wollen künftig ganz auf das Händchen von DJ Koh vertrauen, der zuletzt als Entwicklungschef unter anderem für das Betriebssystem Tizen und den Bezahldienst Samsung Pay verantwortlich zeichnete.
Sure, you played But you can play it now, for free. After a weird stint earlier this month where the game went free for six hours and then disappeared again,
Microsoft is bringing the Cortana virtual assistant deeper into the business world by combining its capabilities with those of Power BI, the company's business intelligence and analytics service. With the new integration, Power BI users running the latest version of Windows 10 can ask their computers questions about information stored with the business intelligence service and get answers back in the form of simple numbers, charts and even complex reports, depending on how they have the system set up. To get started, administrators just need to select a data source in Power BI (like a SQL Server database), and allow Cortana to access the data set. Once that's done, the assistant will be able to pull information from the data for any user who has access to it in Power BI.
If you purchased your computer in the last decade, it probably has a 64-bit-capable processor. The transition to In an “To provide the best experience for the most-used Linux versions, we will end support for Google Chrome on 32-bit Linux, Ubuntu Precise (12.04), and Debian 7 (wheezy) in early March, 2016. Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.
Lenovo announced more additions to its ThinkPad P series on Tuesday, including a convertible Yoga-style ThinkPad geared for folks who need to do a lot of digital sketching. Alongside that there’s also the ThinkPad P50s, which Lenovo says is a “more affordable” workstation that still packs premium functionality in a sleek package. Lastly, Lenovo also added a new desktop called the ThinkStation P310 as a follow-up to the P300 that came out in late 2014. All three new devices are scheduled to roll out before the end of March 2016 and come with Windows 10 (though some models also offer Windows 7 and 8 options). Here are all the finer details on each.
Microsoft wants you to help build the next HoloLens app. At least, that appears to be the goal of a contest the company kicked off Tuesday: Think up the best idea for the augmented-reality device, and Microsoft itself will make it. Microsoft isn’t asking for the community to actually develop the app, or even contribute code. Instead, a
I noticed a few technical issues during our Seems like AMD users in particular have been hit hard by
Google’s latest scheme to speed up a sometimes slow and unresponsive mobile web is to zap away the images. The company announced on the When the speed slows down, most of the images will go away.
As prices for 4K televisions come down, TV service providers are starting to get serious about supporting live 4K telecasts. DirecTV is hoping to lead the charge, with plans for 4K (or UltraHD) service early next year, “Forty percent of people are going to have UHD TVs coming out of Christmas and they are going to be looking for something to watch,” Goswitz said. “Our goal is to have them tuned to DirecTV and have as much linear live content, especially sports content, as soon as possible.”
Windows 10 usage has moved into third place among desktop operating systems The metrics firm, which measures pageviews on a large sampling of websites, puts Windows 10 usage at 10.18 percent over the last month. OS X claimed 9.36 percent of usage in November, followed by Windows XP with 8.5 percent. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are still in front, with 49.27 percent and 13.02 percent usage in November, respectively. Windows 10, Windows XP, and Mac OS X were all neck-and-neck in October at around 9 percent usage share, though XP and OS X maintained slight leads. With Windows 10 usage growing, OS X usage staying about the same, and XP continuing to fade away, Microsoft’s latest operating system now has the clear lead.
AMD plans to roll out a hotfix on Monday, November 30 for its new A random assortment of AMD GPU users recently reported seeing the fans in their graphics cards locked to a maximum 20 percent speed limit regardless of the load they were under. Some users report their cards being physically damaged after heavy gameplay sessions as a result of the bug.
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday out of the way, Microsoft is moving on to its annual “ Today’s deal is an HP Pavilion x360 convertible laptop for $499, with a 13.3-inch (1366-by-768 resolution) display, Intel Core i5-6200U processor, 8 GB of RAM, and 1 TB hard drive, weighing in a 3.8 pounds. Microsoft says it’s knocking $150 off the regular price, though this particular configuration is nearly impossible to find elsewhere. (Amazon has
Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday is behind us (did you see all those crazy Vines?), and December is already here. There’s no doubt about it: Christmas is coming. If your first thought after reading that is, “Nooooo!” a new Chrome extension can help alleviate the holiday overload by blocking out festive cheer on select popular websites. The
AT&T plans to hike the cost of its unlimited wireless data plans by $5 in February 2016. This will be the first price change for AT&T’s unlimited plans in about seven years, rising from $30 to $35 per month. AT&T gave up on unlimited plans in 2012 back when 3G was king but many users are still holding on to their juicy contracts and refuse to let them go. “Consumers and businesses are using mobile data at record levels and the trend is expected to continue,” AT&T said on its
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Two years ago, Evernote Some of them made sense, like a stylus that worked with Evernote’s app and a scanner that pulled documents into the note-taking software. Others were more tenuously connected to Evernote’s core business, with observers taking particular glee in pointing out the company’s new collection of socks. At the time, then-CEO Phil Libin said the
Mobile broadband has gotten much more affordable in the past year, while wired Internet service has grown further out of reach for some of the world’s poorest people. That’s according to an annual report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an arm of the United Nations, which tracks IT development levels in 167 economies. The average affordability of mobile broadband has improved by between 20 percent and 30 percent in the past year, the report said. This doesn’t mean anyone saw their phone bill cut by that much, but between what happened to incomes and prices, it got that much easier to pay the bill. Meanwhile, fixed-line broadband got less affordable in what the ITU calls the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), a list of 48 places like Afghanistan, Rwanda and Haiti. On average across those countries, wired broadband cost 70 percent of the gross national product per capita last year. This year, the figure rose to 98 percent. That suggests average people in those countries would have to spend much of their income to get broadband at home.
I love my mother dearly, but she calls and texts me This is why Samsung launching a “help” app of sorts for its devices called Samsung+ made me so curious. Samsung’s phones are the most popular Android devices in the U.S., so it makes sense that the company would develop something specifically catered to helping those customers. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just another piece of bloatware, so I tried it out for myself to see if it was something I should introduce to my mom.
Let me start with a confession: I’ve never reviewed an outlet cover before. The $20 USB outlets are not a new invention—we