Amazon's Alexa is worst receptionist ever: Crazy exes, stalkers' calls put through automatically

Ability to screen callers, block people Coming Soon™ Amazon's voice-controlled assistant Alexa and its Echo devices now sport the ability to take your phone calls – so long as you don't ever plan on ignoring calls from anyone.…

Google wil dat meer smartphones updates krijgen en wijzigt opbouw Android

Google heeft het voor fabrikanten makkelijker gemaakt om Android-toestellen te voorzien van een nieuwe versie van het besturingssysteem. Fabrikanten van toestellen en processors hoeven voortaan geen code meer te herschrijven na een nieuwe Android-re…

Facebook in the dock: Web giant faces trial for allegedly ripping off data center blueprints

Zuck's Open Compute Project stole our designs, claims Brit biz Facebook is set to be dragged before a jury next year to face allegations that its Open Compute Project is built on stolen server and rack technology.…

Facebook in the dock: Web giant faces trial for allegedly ripping off data center blueprints

Zuck's Open Compute Project stole our designs, claims Brit biz Facebook is set to be dragged before a jury next year to face allegations that its Open Compute Project is built on stolen server and rack technology.…

Alan Wake gaat op 15 mei uit de handel door verlopen muzieklicenties

Adventuregame Alan Wake is vanaf 15 mei niet meer officieel te koop. Ontwikkelaar Remedy heeft een overeenkomst gesloten met platenmaatschappijen om zeven jaar lang de game te mogen verkopen met bepaalde muzieknummers inbegrepen in de game en die ze…

Uber may face criminal charges over alleged stolen self-driving tech

Judge Alsup denies Waymo arbitration request, refers case to Uncle Sam's legal eagles Uber may face criminal charges over its alleged theft of trade secrets from Google-owned self-driving car upstart Waymo.…

Merger talks between T-Mobile and Sprint are back on

'Judge Java' to sueball-slinging smut studio: Test your pirate-hunting tools or walk the plank

Alsup wants torrent-chasing biz to work that IP detector hard A grumble-flick studio will be blocked from lobbing copyright infringement claims at pirates until it proves its tools for identifying illegal downloaders work.…

Google is beefing up its web app review process to prevent another phishing attack

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TagScanner 6.0.21

Versie 6.0.21 van TagScanner is uitgekomen. Met dit programma kan de muziekcollectie worden beheerd en georganiseerd. TagScanner heeft uitgebreide mogelijkheden om zowel bestandsnamen als tags aan te passen en is daarmee vergelijkbaar met programma'…

A new Ebola outbreak hits the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Gorilla Glass maker Corning gets $200 million from Apple’s US manufacturing investment fund

 Apple made news and scored some positive PR earlier this month when the company announced a $1 billion fund aimed at investing in US-based manufacturing. Now it’s ready to announce the first big investment from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. New …

Mafia III verschijnt voor macOS

Mafia III komt op vrijdag uit voor macOS. Dat maakt Aspyr, de uitgever voor de game op dat platform, bekend. Ook de drie dlc-pakketten voor het spel zijn direct verkijgbaar. De game is zowel op Steam als op de Mac App Store te koop.

Ransomware outbreak hits Telefónica, huge security flap in Spain

It's happening! Workers at Telefónica's Madrid headquarters were left staring at their screen on Friday following a ransomware outbreak.…

Oracle suffers embarrassing defeat as Java community votes 'No'

Dire warnings ignored, plea for unity Oracle has suffered an embarrassing setback in its plans for a modular architecture in Java 9.…

Android O is supposed to make Android updates arrive faster

Shearing an alpaca: the do's and don'ts

So your client's under-spent on IT for decades and lives in fear of an audit

Oh-so-trendy infrastructure as code could save your bacon Sponsored by HPE  Infrastructure as code is a buzzword frequently thrown out alongside DevOps and continuous integration as being the modern way of doing things. Proponents cite benefits rang…

NHS hit by 'cyber attack', hospitals across the country shutting down

GP told of 'National hack of the computer health care system' At least two NHS hospitals have shut down systems and are telling patients not to come in, due to what is being described as a massive nationwide cyber attack.…

Pleased HPE clutches two hot Java server cups – but oh dear MultiJVM

Fell at third x86 benchmark hurdle Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the fastest x86 Java server of them all? HPE leads in two categories but lags far behind in another.…