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Президентом Європейського парламенту став Антоніо Таяні

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NewsHub“4-ий тур виборів #EPresident: Новий президент Європарламенту Антоніо Таяні”, – йдеться у повідомленні на офіційній сторінці у Twitter прес-служби Європарламенту.
4th Ballot of the election of the #EPresident : The new President of the European Parliament is Antonio Tajani
Нагадаємо, голову Європейського парламенту у четвертому турі голосування обирали між двома кандидатами : Антоніо Таяні і Джанні Піттелла.

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Новий голова Європарламенту назвав головні актуальні проблеми

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NewsHubОбраний головою Європарламенту італійський євродепутат Антоніо Таяні після виборів подякував учасників голосування та своїх суперників і позначив свої завдання як голови асамблеї, передає Інтерфакс-Україна.
“Я буду головою всіх (європарламентарів). Я не буду прем’єр-міністром Європейського союзу, а стану тільки гарантом Європарламенту, який сподівається бути сильним, і я розраховую зуміти доводити ідеї парламенту до Ради ЄС, беручи до уваги те, що думає меншість. Я буду представляти не тільки свою думку, але також думку парламенту”, – сказав Таяні на прес-конференції в Страсбурзі.
За його словами, він не має своєї політичної програми, оскільки буде керуватися програмою Європейського парламенту.
Таяні також перерахував головні актуальні проблеми, якими має намір займатися в якості голови асамблеї: тероризм, імміграція, економічне зростання, соціальна політика та зайнятість, цифрова економіка, енергетичні питання, а також захист європейських цінностей.
Нагадаємо, 17 січня в Страсбурзі новим головою Європарламенту був обраний італієць Антоніо Таяні , висунутий фракцією Європейської народної партії (Християнські демократи).
У четвертому турі голосування Таяні отримав 351 голос, тоді як його суперник і співвітчизник Джанні Пителла, який є головою фракції Прогресивний альянс соціалістів і демократів отримав 282 голоси.

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Microsoft's Surface Studio receives its first firmware update

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NewsHubMicrosoft today released its first firmware update for the Surface Studio, the company’s all-in-one that was announced in October and began shipping in December. The version number is 117.1394.768.0, and that’s actually all that we know.
It’s such a common trend that it’s almost an inside joke among Microsoft enthusiasts at this point, but once again, the company has released an update without publishing a changelog on the site that is dedicated to just that. In fact, while the Surface Studio has its own update history page , the device is still not even listed on the Microsoft Surface update history page alongside the rest of the Surface tablets and laptops.
While it’s entirely possible that Microsoft might publish a changelog tonight, it doesn’t seem very likely. If history is any indication, we’ll probably see it tomorrow, or even later on this week.
If you’re interested in what’s new for the Surface Studio in its first firmware update, make sure to check back here, as we’ll keep you updated whenever a changelog is published.
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BlackBerry bows out of smartphones with brand-name licensing deal with TCL

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NewsHubBlackBerry has licensed the rights to its own name to Chinese hardware maker TCL in a deal that will see the company formally bow out of smartphone hardware development and sales.
Under the terms of…

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Airbus planning to test autonomous "air taxi" by the end of 2017

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NewsHubTo some, flying cars are may appear to be just another flight of fancy, along with rocket-boosted jet-packs and gravity defying hoverboards. However, European civil aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, is planning to bring the concept of flying cars just that little bit closer to a reality.
A few months ago, Airbus formed a separate division called Urban Air Mobility with the intent to research ambitious concepts which include single passenger vehicles and a helicopter-like transporter capable of carrying multiple passengers. There is one project, however, that appears to be given the green light.
Airbus Group Chief Executive, Tom Enders, stated at a technology conference in Munich, Germany, that the company is preparing to test a prototype of an autonomous, single-seat “air taxi” by as early as the end of this year.
During the technology conference, Enders stated:
The company also recognizes that such technologies would have to be clean to avoid further polluting congested cities. This may also greatly reduce the cost for city infrastructure planners by investing less money in concrete bridges and roads.
Airbus envisages a future where we may depend on such autonomous vehicles in which you are able to book flying taxis through an app, similar to Uber. Potentially, this book-to-fly service could be of use for individuals who have enjoyed a night out but are not fit to drive a manually operated vehicle.
Source: Reuters | Image: Airbus via Quartz

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Bain: Is Container Use Optional? Probably Not

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NewsHubContainers, frequently portrayed as an experimental or optional technology, are likely to be an essential ingredient in transitioning traditional companies to the emerging digital economy, concludes a study by Bain & Company.
The Bain authors of For Traditional Enterprises, The Path To Digital And The Role Of Containers come to several surprising conclusions. It’s understood that containers are useful in building next-generation applications based on microservices. Bain says they’re also good for transitioning 20-year-old, monolithic applications.
Traditional companies seeking to avoid being disrupted by competitors and move to a more service-oriented and agile position in their marketplaces will inevitably turn to containers, the authors also concluded. That’s mainly because containers are useful in building software that will change frequently but is still required to run in a highly reliable fashion. Without them, the agility sought by many companies today will be harder to achieve.
Part of the reason that’s true is because Docker came up with a way to format an application and its dependencies in software layers, with one layer able to be updated without the others needing to be disrupted. Placed in a Docker container, an application can be shipped across a network and its basic requirements recognized by a new host, provided the host is running the version of Linux for which the container was constructed. The resulting mobility, upgradeability and reliability give container users an edge over other means of handling software, according to Docker advocates. It’s a conclusion that Bain & Company endorses in its report, although it mentions Docker several times in passing without stopping to specify its technical attributes.
Windows Server 2016 released last fall can now also recognize Windows containers based on the Docker format and host them in data center operations, a move that’s likely to expand the share of the data center in which containers are employed, a development that the report did not refer to.
Bain & Company surveyed 449 business executives and IT managers in multiple U. S. industries earlier this year to produce the report. Bain & Company is a consulting firm with 53 offices in 34 countries and claims it bases its fees on customers’ results, not just advice. The report was written by Jeff Taylor, a Bain partner in Boston; Paul Renno, a Bain partner in San Francisco, and Jesse Klein, a Bain manager in Boston. All are members of Bain’s Technology Practice.
Want to see how 451 Research views the future of containers? See 451 Research: Containers A $2.7 Billion Market By 2020.
Red Hat sponsored the report because it was an early backer of the Docker approach and is heavily invested in a development platform for the digital age, OpenShift. It further hopes that container deployments will occur on hosts running its minimized Atomic Host version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But other means of using Docker and containers also exist and the conclusions of the report apply to them as well, including Docker’s own Docker Platform and the open source Cloud Foundry system, as well as the Ubuntu or CoreOS Linux for container hosts.
Among other things, the report said:
1. Traditional companies vary widely in how far they’ve progressed toward digitizing operations, which includes speeded up app dev and adopting analytics. Those in the top 15% of making progress were eight times as likely to have increased revenues faster than their industry’s average than those in the bottom 15%.
2. Containers reduce development time from 15% -30%.
3. Containers also benefit other phases of the application lifecycle, due to ease of hand-off from development to test to production and due to ease of continued updates to the application itself.
4. Early adopters of containers claim an operational savings of 5-15%, due to hardware and process efficiencies. Containers are more efficient than virtual machines in needing less memory and other resources initially and they have less overhead in running processes.
5. Containers work well for stateless and microservice-based applications, such as those found on Web sites, and increasingly for “more difficult to containerize, stateful applications,” such as a traditional database app. Dell found its still-useful, 20-year-old, monolithic systems management tool could be successfully containerized.
6. Currently, the top container use is for Web applications. Three years from now, the priority will be containerizing custom database applications and business intelligence, reporting and dashboards.
7. For at least the next three years, containers will co-exist with, not replace, virtual machines. The preferred deployment method today is to put containers inside the harder boundaries of a virtual machine. Container users will do so over the option of putting them on a bare metal server.
The trio also appears to be aware that business thinkers are saying traditional enterprises must make the transition into the digital age or risk being disrupted. There’s also a body of opinion that says IT services in the business must transform themselves as the business also transforms. But that leaves a which-comes-first, the chicken or the egg, question. Should the business seek to transform its IT infrastructure, then let the new IT lead the way into the digital economy? Or do line of business managers and product managers define how the business operates in the new age, then insist on IT services that allow them to get to it?
The Bain & Company authors seem to offer their own answer from out of the survey. The path to the digital economy is now well defined, and companies on that path “prioritize investments in operating model changes to improve decision rights, talent management and collaboration,” as well as in the core IT architecture. The two must proceed concurrently but the needs of the business transition are likely to define where the next immediate technology priority lies.
To be ready to meet that priority, the IT staff “must invest in technology that delivers adaptability, resilience, speed and the ability to use analytics for better-informed decisions” that improve operations and the customer experience, the report said.
For the IT manager, there are still a lot of mile markers to be defined and routes to choose. But having the business managers fully engaged in getting to a newer, more digital company will help define priorities, and once defined, IT has a chance to execute on them and move on to the next step of what both parties think needs to be done.
The Bain authors aren’t sure whether containers will match virtual machines’ rapid march into the data center, displacing the virtual machines themselves, although that remains a possibility. Regardless, “as container usage continues to evolve and containers become more applicable, we see them becoming an increasingly attractive option for companies across many industries as they struggle to meet the intensifying digital imperative,” they said.

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Backup 101: Incremental vs differential vs synthetic full backup

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NewsHubReal-time or near-real-time snapshots, replication and continuous data protection (CDP) have become common methods of protecting data in the datacentre.
But traditional backup , where copies of data or changes to data are made at regular intervals, is still very much a mainstream approach to data protection.
Here we run through the main backup types available – full, differential, incremental, and hybrids created from these such as synthetic and incremental-forever – and where appropriate discuss their pros and cons.
Full backup
This is the most fundamental type of backup available, and is where a copy is made of all data in a specified dataset. Clearly, it is also the most time consuming to create and takes up the most storage capacity. On the plus side, it can be easier to restore data from a full backup than from some other types that must be recreated from sets of changed data.
Incremental backup
With a full backup already completed, once a week, for example, incremental backups copy only data changed since the last (full or incremental) backup. The advantage is that this is the least time and storage space-consuming method of backup. The fly in the ointment is that to restore data you must reconstruct it from the last full backup plus all intervening incrementals.
Differential backup
Also building on a regular full backup, a differential backup taken daily, for example, makes a copy of all changed data since the last full backup. To restore, you therefore need the last full backup plus the latest differential. The advantage of differential backups is that restores are easier than with a full-plus-incremental backup regime, while the drawback can be that daily differentials are likely to be of greater volume and more time consuming than incremental backups.
Synthetic full backup
A synthetic backup takes a full backup and combines subsequent incremental backups with it to provide a full backup that is always up to date. Synthetic full backups have the advantage of being easy to restore from while also being easy on bandwidth across the network as only changes are transmitted. That said, there’s a processing overhead at the backup server in excess of that incurred by a simple incremental, but that shouldn’t be too onerous.
Incremental-forever backup
Something of a hybrid between incremental-plus-full backup and synthetic, incremental-forever is based on a full backup with incrementals subsequently taken. These are retained separately and can be restored as if it was an up-to-date full at the point in time required. The theory is that you need never take a full backup again and can restore to any restore point. This is the method used by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager , in which it is called a progressive incremental. As with any approach based on incremental changes, there is the least possible hit to bandwidth and capacity in day-to-day terms.
Reverse incremental backup
This is when synthetic full backups are the normal mode of operation, but previous incrementals are kept and can be rolled back to as restore points prior to the latest full backup. This is used by, for example, virtual machine backup specialist Veeam. The same supplier also has so-called forward incremental backup, in which an initial full backup is followed by incrementals. These are combined into a synthetic at regular intervals, with the incrementals between synthetics kept to allow restore points.

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Mobile data startup Zeotap raises €12M

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NewsHubZeotap , a startup that helps telecom companies sell their data to advertisers, announced today that it has raised €12 million in Series B funding (that’s just under $13 million).
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Projjol Banerjea told me that while there’s “decent data” available for online advertisers targeting desktop users, things are shakier on the mobile side: “The majority of data available in the market tends to be fairly poor quality.”
Specifically, he said the available data tends to be less reliable because it’s based on “probabilistic modeling.” By using data from the telcos, Banerjea said Zeotap has a wider range of data — including demographics, location and purchase intent — that’s also more reliable because it’s deterministic (which usually means it’s provided by the users themselves ).
And while Zeotap started out by working with telcos, Banerjea said other companies (including, according to the funding announcement, “a leading security company” and “a top navigation services provider”) have also approached his team about selling their data.
As for privacy, Zeotap says it does not include any personally identifiable information. Banerjea also said that one of the key elements of the company’s strategy is the fact that it prevents advertisers from storing data with persistent identifiers.
One of Zeotap’s strategic investors, Xaxis co-founder Mark Grether, said via email that one of the core principles in advertising is to “never share data directly.”
“The moment it is out in the market, it is uncontrollable and it loses its value,” Grether said. “When I got to know zeotap I re-discovered exactly this principle and realized the company was in a great position to gather the highest-quality data sources and monetize them across the ecosystem. Not only have they figured out smartly the data security and privacy parts of the equation, they also have a neutral position in the market and can offer the data securely to anyone who wants to leverage it.”

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Evernote's new app: Fewer taps, more color and better speed

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NewsHubEvernote released a new version of its iOS app.
Evernote on Tuesday released the latest iOS version of its note-taking and organization app. Evernote 8.0 seeks to make the user experience faster and simpler.
The last year hasn’t been great for Evernote. In July, there was backlash against the company’s new pricing structure. Last month, after an uproar over changes to its privacy policy, Evernote did a full about-face and created an action plan to address users’ concerns.
So Tuesday’s announcement can definitely be seen as a positive for fans of the productivity app. Evernote’s “design and engineering teams set out to reimagine the Evernote experience from the ground up,” according to a blog post on its website.
The overhaul is focused on making things faster, simpler and more intuitive for users. Added features include:
All of this is contained within a new minimalist interface. Obviously, all of Evernote’s claims are untested until we get to spend some time with it. Evernote 8.0 is available for download from Apple’s App Store. No word on an update to its Android app.

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Microsoft labels Windows 7 'outdated' as it pushes Windows users to Windows 10

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NewsHubMicrosoft on Monday reminded customers running Windows 7 that they have just three years of support remaining, told them that the aged OS was “long outdated” and urged them to upgrade to Windows 10.
Windows 7 will exit what Microsoft calls Extended Support on Jan. 14, 2020; at that point, the company will stop all security updates.
Microsoft used the three-years-and-counting milestone to simultaneously denigrate Windows 7 and promote its successor. “Windows 7 is based on long-outdated security architectures,” said Markus Nitschke, the head of Microsoft Germany, in a post to a German-language company blog , adding that the OS “does not meet the requirements of modern technology, nor the high security requirements of IT departments.”
On the other hand, Nitschke continued, “with Windows 10, we offer our customers the highest level of security and functionality at the cutting edge.”
The praise-the-new-denounce-the-old technique is as old as software, and one Microsoft has regularly applied. Three years ago, the company used some of the same tactics when it disparaged Windows XP , whose retirement was then quickly approaching, and trumpeted Windows 7 as its replacement. It repeated the claim, but with less effect, when it touted Windows 8 over 7 in 2012.
But Microsoft’s call to abandon Windows 7 has been louder, a shout in comparison. Not only has the firm done the usual—favored the new over the old—but it has also significantly changed decades of practices thought inviolable, such as patching, when it eliminated reasons why enterprises stayed with Windows 7.
Other steps Microsoft’s taken this cycle have been just as unprecedented. It gave away Windows 10 upgrades to millions of customers—primarily consumers, but also businesses running Windows 7 Professional—for a year. And although it eventually retreated from an aggressive deadline, Microsoft plans to support neither Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 after July 2018 on devices powered by Intel’s newest Skylake silicon.
Microsoft’s assertive, even zealous, push of Windows 10 may have multiple motivations. It may want customers, particularly enterprises, to avoid repeating the mad rush near the end of Windows XP’s lifecycle. Or it might be aiming for a faster adoption tempo to monetize Windows 10’s software-as-a-service model as soon as possible.
But while Microsoft has convinced more than a quarter of all Windows customers to take up 10, its efforts have been less successful in depressing the user share of Windows 7. According to analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 7 powered 53% of all Windows personal computers last month. That’s a decline of 14 percentage points from Windows 7’s peak in June 2015, but nowhere near the pace necessary to push the OS to extinction within three years.
Windows 7’s current user share, however, is less than Windows XP’s at the same point prior to its retirement, showing some progress. In April 2011—three years before being pushed off the support list—XP accounted for nearly 60% of all Windows PCs.

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