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Microsoft yesterday issued a new Windows 10 preview to its Insider testers, making good -- at least in one instance -- on a December promise to quicken the pace of its beta releases.

Nearly 60% of all Americans who'd be interested in purchasing a gun are willing to buy a smart gun or childproof gun -- one that only functions in the hands of an authorized user, a new survey has found.

Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 for the right to be the default search provider on iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads, according to a report by Bloomberg Thursday.

The Federal Aviation Administration says its drone registration system has hit almost 300,000 registrations, one month after launch.

Network security vendor Fortinet has identified an authentication issue that could give remote attackers administrative control over some of its products.

The eastern U.S. is no stranger to brutal winter storms such as the one expected to pummel the region this weekend, but coping with such weather is a far cry today from what it once was.

2016 has officially arrived along with two welcome events for our long-suffering economy: ongoing strength in the labor market and continued expansion of the GDP.  Let's resume our information technology career checkup, so you'll prosper like never before.

I first wrote about the hype surrounding the Internet of Things in 2004. Back then, industry analysts predicted that tens of billions of things would be connected to the Internet within five years. It didn’t happen.

Have you ever typed in a URL incorrectly and arrived at what was obviously a fake site? It looks somewhat real -- there is some fake text, a few flat colored boxes, and maybe even an awkward logo for "Googel" or "Appel" designed by what seems like a third grader. It’s a trick, of course. There might be some malware lurking about, but it’s even more likely a ruse to get you to click on something, prove you are human, and see some ads or maybe get re-directed to a real site that has some ads.

Apple’s operating systems always offer a range of useful accessibility features, but many of these tools are useful to everybody – here are five such tweaks I believe every iOS user should know.

At first glance, Microsoft's mobile strategy seems disjointed.

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A recent AdWeek piece touched on how the five senses drive luxury purchases and found that touch was the most persuasive. In the never-ending effort of physical stores to try to deliver something that e-commerce sites can't, this would seem to be a piece of good news. In theory, it is. In practice, not so much.

Flashback to the 1980s, when this pilot fish is overseeing the production, testing, installation and maintenance of computerized outbound call centers at his company.

German business software maker SAP expects its revenue from cloud subscriptions and support to be higher than its revenue from software licenses in 2018, reflecting an industry trend.

A few years ago, you wouldn't have bet much on IBM's Power systems having a bright future. The major Unix platforms have all been on the decline for more than a decade, giving way to Linux servers powered by increasingly capable x86 processors from Intel.

Ah, Google, your Street-View publicity stunts never fail to entertain. This time, the Mountain View pranksters have stuck their 360-degree cameras up an actual mountain—Mont Blanc, to be precise.

After years, the wait for Intel-based Windows smartphones could be coming to an end.

Humanity has big hopes for artificial intelligence, but in reality machines have a long way to go to catch up with the human brain. Enter Harvard University, which has just won a $28 million grant to change all that.

Intel has to keep a close watch on China, where an architectural battle could break its dominance in servers.

The U.S. military is working to create a chip that can be implanted in a soldier's brain to connect it directly to computers that can deliver data on an enemy's position, maps and battle instructions.

Microsoft today announced its Office Insider preview program now accepts Mac users of Office 365 Home, Personal and University, following up on the the same beta offer to Windows customers in November.