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Four U.S. senators have proposed a bill that would call on the Federal Communications Commission to study the need for more spectrum to connect Internet of Things devices.

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures some 40 years ago, have been named winners of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award (a.k.a., the "Nobel Prize of Computing").

Big changes are coming to the popular DisplayPort display standard, with version 1.4 promising support for 8K displays.

Microsoft and Raspberry Pi want people to build businesses and start Kickstarter campaigns around devices making use of the new Raspberry Pi 3 computer.

Security researchers have discovered a new weakness that could allow attackers to spy on encrypted communications between users and one in three HTTPS servers.

Want to make your own basic map with election results and some demographic layers? See my tutorial on How to make an election map in R, in 10 (fairly) easy steps

The latest drone in DJI's popular Phantom series can track humans and dodge obstacles. The enhancements make the Phantom 4 one of the most advanced consumer drones on the market, and further lower the barrier to flight for most consumers. But the technology comes with a sizable price tag.

The scent of spring is almost in the air, and here in AndroidLand, that can mean only one thing: It's time for the leaks, rumors, and speculation about the next version of Android to start blossoming.

A year-long experiment that baited hackers to try and break into systems netted an interesting result: A single letter, x, was one of the most common password guesses.

In the early 2000s, AMD's Athlon chips rocked the PC market with innovative features like 64-bit processing capabilities, and Intel had to scramble to catch up.

Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, was recently stumped by a cyberattack he was studying. It seemed to keep vanishing.

AMD is shattering a speed record with the A10-7890K processor chip, its fastest yet with integrated graphics. 

Apprenda has existed for many years. The vendor offers a platform as a service (PaaS) geared toward large enterprises software development needs. When it was first created, Apprenda was a pure-play .NET PaaS and told a story of the huge number of enterprises that were built upon .NET and needed a way to make their software development process faster and more efficient.

As the encryption argument takes center stage in the ongoing Apple vs. the U.S. Government squabbles, a very important—and potentially destructive—change is taking place in security strategy.

Microsoft's browsers took a beating of historical proportions last month, losing user share at a rate that could put it in second place, behind Google, as early as May, new data signaled today.

Apple has thought about how to combine mobile devices with its more traditional Mac platforms and the future is much more about Continuity than the notion of a MultiTouch Mac.

Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the extent of surveillance that occurs over the Internet, there has been much attention given to encryption. Indeed, the current storm over the FBI's desire to gain access to private individuals' mobile devices would be rendered irrelevant if widespread encryption was the norm.

NTT Communications is adopting OpenStack in its public cloud, and introducing a bare-metal option to its hosted private cloud offering. It is also expanding connectivity and management tools for hybrid cloud environments.

Businesses are having a tough time hiring security professionals, according to new research from Dice.

Deep learning has usually been accessible to only the largest organizations, but that's starting to change. On Monday, an AI startup called Nervana launched a cloud offering for what it calls deep learning on demand.

When it comes robots, humans can be a little too trusting. In a series of experiments at Georgia Tech that simulated a building fire, people ignored the emergency exits and followed instructions from a robot -- even though they'd been told it might be faulty.

Mobile apps for the informed voter

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When it comes to the presidential election, it can be mighty challenging to separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm not talking about the actual candidates (though that poses challenges as well), but rather the onslaught of news, opinion and polling that accompany the whole process. Sometimes it feels like you're standing in a hailstorm of election coverage with an umbrella made of tissue paper.

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Google has expanded the digital loss protection (DLP) features in Gmail for Work, to help ensure that employees don't share confidential information outside the company they work for.

A late-December power outage in Ukraine was caused by attackers wielding malware weapons, says a U.S. report. Unofficial briefings point the finger at Russia, as do official statements from Ukraine, but could the same happen here?

Security researchers have identified a new piece of OS X malware that may come from Hacking Team, the controversial Italian company that sells surveillance software to governments.