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There's never any shortage of buzzwords in the IT world, but when it comes to A.I., they can be hard to tell apart. There's artificial intelligence, but then there's also machine intelligence. There's machine learning, but there's also deep learning. What's the difference? Here are five things you need to understand.

Adoption of Apple's OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, continues to lag behind its two predecessors, new data released this week showed.

IBM has been a bellwether employer that has often embraced workplace trends, sometimes good, sometimes ominous.

Let's begin today with a quick quiz: What percentage of the PCs in your business or organization have all of the required patches for the operating system and application software? I'll bet you are tempted to say 100%, since you probably assume that your workstations are set to get updates automatically.

Amazon on Thursday announced a sleek new hockey-puck shaped, Alexa voice-controlled device called Echo Dot, a smaller $89.99 version of the larger, more expensive Echo tower.

The U.S. is aggressively targeting ISIS in cyberspace, attempting to halt the group's ability to communicate electronically, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Thursday.

Is the consumer wearables market just a sideline for HP, as the company has claimed? As new smartwatches -- like Titan's Juxt -- keep rolling out, that doesn't seem to be the case.

The next time you see a billboard on the side of the road, it may also be scanning you.

I've been thinking a lot about Android notifications this week.

It all started with reports of a revamped look for notifications that might show up with the Android "N" release this fall. That led to my mulling over how fantastic it'd be if Google were to bring an Inbox-style snoozing system into regular system notifications.

The present problem, I proposed, is that it's far too easy to brush a notification aside and then forget to deal with it later. Being able to snooze a notification... Читать дальше...

Russia isn't known as the PC capital of the world, but when a new homegrown machine comes along it's sometimes curious enough to get our attention.

Cisco Systems has released software updates for its Nexus 3000 and 3500 switches ito remove a default administrative account with static credentials that could allow remote attackers to compromise devices.

News this week that Cisco is acquiring workload portability tool CliQr comes hard on the heels of Oracle's acquisition of Ravello Systems. While the price tag is half of the estimated $500 million that oracle paid for Ravello, it's still an impressive deal for a company that has raised a relatively modest $38 million.

The work collaboration app Slack just got a little more useful.

Just today, the company started to roll-out of a new voice calling feature, which the company announced yesterday. It's the result of snapping up the voice, video, and scree-share company Screenhero a bit over a year ago.

I tested the new feature with some colleagues and friends, and it works like a charm -- I had no problems. It might not be the be-all and end-all of voice communication (you can’t even leave a message) but it's a step in the right direction. Читать дальше...

When we aren’t discussing the FBI’s attempt to make everyone less secure by breaking into Apple’s iPhones, we’re discussing what we expect from iPhone 7 later this year.

Cisco Systems is buying chip expertise that could help it in the data center.

Being an IT leader has never been particularly easy, and the chaotic forces re-shaping technology now make it harder than ever. IT talent comes in the door -- and leaves almost as quickly for a better job. Corporate tech needs a refresh almost daily. Must-have skills become useless, forcing workers (and their bosses) to scramble ever faster to stay on top.

The arrest of Diego Dzodan, the vice president of Facebook for Latin America, by Brazilian federal police in Sao Paulo has stirred up controversy in the country.

The Internet of Things has made many enterprises more efficient. This year it will start making them more competitive.

IBM has sued online deals marketplace Groupon for infringing four of its patents, including two that emerged from Prodigy, the online service launched by IBM and partners ahead of the World Wide Web.

What's most important about your smartphone? Something you don't actually see — the network you use to connect to the Internet, find and use apps, get information and more. So for the third year in a row we set out to discover which mobile service provider gives you the most comprehensive and reliable data network coverage, the fastest upload and download speeds, and the most bang for the buck.

With data breaches grabbing headlines nearly every week, threat intelligence is shaping up as the next big thing in information security. That, of course, means there’s more hype and confusion to sift through.

Thanks to Disney's IT layoff, the Florida primary -- scheduled for March 15 -- might be the most telling on the H-1B visa issue.

Consultant pilot fish is on the team building a financial datamart at a big bank, and it's a diverse group -- in more ways than one.

Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday that it is now shipping the industry's highest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD), the 15.36TB PM1633a.

Intel prides itself on making computers faster, cheaper and smaller, but in recent years, the company lost a chip manufacturing edge it had to make that happen.