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When it comes to the problem of stopping errant drones, there's been a number of high-tech solutions -- from radio jamming to laser beams to nets launched by other drones  --  but a group in The Netherlands is proposing a low-tech solution that's much more elegant.

As the city of Atlanta embarks on an array of smart city pilot projects to improve public safety, transportation and water monitoring, residents also appear to favor installing smart cameras for public surveillance.

Getting meetings under way faster and more efficiently can contribute to cost savings and productivity gains, as Intel highlighted in its annual IT performance report on Monday.

Microsoft's browsers, Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge, continued to bleed users last month, according to the latest data from metrics company Net Applications.

Just watch: Someday a brilliant person will invent a way to capture exhaust from tailpipes and smokestacks and convert it into energy. It will be a virtuous circle that solves a host of problems and changes our point of view from exhaust as a byproduct to exhaust as an asset. That change is likely a few years away.

Microsoft really wants small businesses to pick up its Office 365 productivity suite, and the company unveiled a new offer Monday aimed at drawing them into its cloud.

A few years ago, Microsoft switched from per-processor to per-core licensing in SQL Server, and it's about to do the same with Windows Server 2016. You may not be thrilled with the results.

The saving grace for the declining tablet market is detachable devices, also called 2-in-1s, that can serve as both a laptop and a separate slate-style tablet.

The government likes to wail that encryption is the devil and is causing its surveillance efforts to go dark, but a new report by Harvard University debunked that notion; at worst encryption might cause some dim spots, but overall surveillance opportunities are brighter than ever and will even grow. In part, that’s thanks to the Internet of Things.

The SanDisk Ultra +Cloud is a USB 3.0 flash drive with a twist: You get 64GB on the drive itself and 64GB of cloud storage.

In the just-completed USENIX Enigma security conference, Rob Joyce, the head of the elite Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division of the NSA, offered advice on making his job harder. Go figure.

Microsoft's latest attempt to square the circle of on-premises IT and cloud services, Azure Stack brings what Microsoft describes as a "cloud consistent" platform into the data center. "Cloud consistent" means that Azure Stack offers the same portal, management and devops tooling as the Azure cloud service -- although it's not built on the same underlying software, but instead extends Windows Server 2016.

Apple has been working on virtual reality solutions for years -- since way before Steve Jobs threatened to “destroy” Android and way before Google Glass shipped. Since CES 2016 Apple’s VR plans have attracted attention, and could have an augmented reality bearing on its plans for Apple Car.

Windows 10's user share jumped in January by its second-largest one-month increase since its launch, data from analytics vendor Net Applications showed today.

Most retailers experimenting with customer-facing RFID—which has come a long way since it's assembly-line-only days—are trying to expand its use as much as possible, looking for whatever snippets of the business could be enhanced with a touch of wireless tag broadcasting.

A study from Harvard released Monday largely refutes claims that wider use of encryption in software products will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime.

Companies are finding some of the oddest locations for data centers these days.

This past summer, the White Rose Academies Trust in Leeds, England, kicked off a project that represented the first step on a journey to a software-defined networking platform -- and the move precipitated some career changes, both positive and negative, for the IT staff.

Here's how you can tell there's a seismic shift underway in the auto industry: A slew of automakers have set up R&D centers in Silicon Valley, hoping to be closer to the developers and the technologies they need to remain competitive.

When users first try virtual assistants (like Siri, Google Now, Cortana, M or Alexa), they're struck by the idea that they're talking to a computer, rather than a person.

Elementary-school teacher shows up at the office of the school's tech coordinator pilot fish, frantic because her mouse arrow is stuck in the lower-right corner of her computer screen.

On Unix/Linus systems, there are quite a few commands that can provide insights into the processes that are running, the resources those processes use, and the users' responsible for them. Some of these are Unix 101 type commands. Others require the use of more exotic command options that you might not know.

A Samsung Galaxy S7 press image has been leaked. Yes, Evan Blass, serial scourge of ODMs everywhere, has given us this shot of a pair of rather ho-hum “flagship” phones.