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Meg Whitman doesn't shy away from a challenge. She led eBay from tiny startup to household name, ran for governor of California and, nearly five years ago, took the helm at Hewlett Packard and stabilized an organization stumbling badly from a variety of very public missteps. Having engineered the split of the Silicon Valley icon into consumer tech (HP, Inc.) and corporate-focused Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Whitman is now HPE's Chief Executive Officer.

Vivaldi today launched its same-named browser, adding another to the accumulating collection of boutique browsers hoping to steal some share from the big names in the business.

When Google’s Nest acquired Revolv in 2014, it was buying what was thought of as the Rosetta Stone of the Internet of Things (IoT). Revolv enabled users and vendors to connect their gear together regardless of their connection protocols, from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to ZigBee and Z-Wav.

Facebook today announced new features for Facebook Live to make it easier for mobile users to create, find and share live videos.

Photive's PH-BTE70 Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds are designed to be sweatproof, and to stay in your ears while you're busy being active. It currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 1,180 people on Amazon (see reviews).

One of the major announcements from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was that the company was bringing the popular Bash command line interface to Windows 10 with a new Linux subsystem. Now, developers can give it a shot with a new beta build of the operating system, which Microsoft released Wednesday morning.

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for Web application operators.

The makers of a 3D desktop printer that's garnering attention as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project claim the machine is 50 times faster than other 3D desktop printers.

The second largest car manufacturer in the world, Volkswagen Group, will use the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack to build a private cloud that will host websites for its brands VW, Audi and Porsche, and will be a platform for innovating automotive technology, the company announced Wednesday.

Microsoft wants to make the Raspberry Pi 3 computer easier to use for people who want to be device makers but haven't worked with hardware before.

If you are anything like me, you have been eagerly awaiting this week’s Blu Ray DVD release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Every member of my family has been clamoring to see the deleted scenes, watch the table read, and study the documentary. Beyond this, of course, there is also the joy of watching the film (again and again) and looking for deeper themes.

The FBI is reportedly still analyzing Syed Farook’s iPhone, but there’s been a lot of drama about whether or not the FBI is using Cellebrite to crack the encrypted San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.

Apple has reportedly fixed a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to bypass the passcode on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus running iOS 9.3.1 in order to access the address book and photos.

Put down your cane and raise your hand (I'll wait) if you remember the "good ol' days" when developers were called engineers and "quality assurance" was a last-minute thing those same engineers did the night before a product release to ensure nothing lit on fire when the customer turned it on. Or, if you're not of that age yet, feel free to raise your hand if you remember the battles between developers and IT when trying to get a new tool up and running, or the times before iOS development when... Читать дальше...

Any time a company shares data or provides access to third parties, it increases its vulnerability to unauthorized access or breach. So in today’s IT environment -- in which enterprises partner with multiple IT service providers, which in turn may have multiple subcontractors -- cyber risks increase exponentially.

WhatsApp's encryption job is done -- says the billion-user messaging app team. It was helped by Open Whisper Systems, the crypto-heads behind the Signal system, which is what WhatsApp's app now uses.

The newly-independent Quicken will try to reverse years of neglect by its former parent Intuit, the chief executive of Quicken Inc. said today.

You are not a victim, so if you woke up with the iPhone blues this morning try these simple solutions to see if they help.

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All you folks who miss having a replaceable battery in your high-end smartphone, your ride is here.

Adobe is working on an emergency patch for its Flash Player after attackers are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw.

In the future, you may use aeroponic systems at home to bring in water mixed with nutrients. You'll use this water to grow vegetables, home-grown food that can cut your produce costs in half.

This IT tech pilot fish picks up part-time work from a support company that uses a notoriously buggy online service to let techs accept assignments as their time permits.

An alternate method for infecting computers with ransomware signals a shift in tactics by cybercriminals that could put businesses at greater risk, according to Symantec.

Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said.