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High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched an open-source training "gym" for artificial-intelligence programmers.

Every time chiefmartec.com blogger Scott Brinker updates the Marketing Technology Landscape graphic, in which he lists all the vendors of marketing applications, I need to zoom in to decipher all the logos (1,876 vendors in 2015!). I can’t wait to see what 2016 will bring!

"Data scientist" has already been declared this year's hottest job, and now a new report offers several more reasons to consider it as a career.

Finally!

Just today, I was able to test the ludicrous mode on a Tesla Model S sedan, driving around on the highways and side-streets of Minneapolis. As it happens, I’ve never driven the high-end P90D version of the Model S with all of the extras (total price tag is around $140,000 with all of the add-ons.) I also tested Autopilot for the first time since it was released and then tweaked a bit, driving in fully autonomous mode at highway speeds and adjusting for traffic on its own.

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The White House today released the findings from a study by the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security Departments on ways to spur the development of smart-gun technology, which restricts who can fire a weapon.

Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it spent trying to expand in those markets.

Cloud providers hosting blockchain secure transactions technology should take additional steps to protect their records, IBM says.

Television stations have volunteered to sell off 126MHz of "beach front" wireless spectrum to mobile carriers in an ongoing U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction, potentially bringing higher speeds and more reliable networks to customers.

Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10's Cortana search box, the operating system's prime search real estate.

I've been following OpenStack since its inception half a dozen years ago.

Google's efforts to police the Android app store -- Google Play -- are far from perfect, with malicious apps routinely slipping through its review process. Such was the case for multiple phishing applications this year that posed as client apps for popular online payment services.

A peculiar thing happens in northern Florida every year in the springtime. That's harvest season on the many fern farms scattered across the region, and it's also the time when demand for rattlesnake antivenom skyrockets there.

Attackers are aggressively pushing a new file-encrypting ransomware program called CryptXXX by compromising websites, the latest victim being U.S. toy maker Maisto. Fortunately, there's a tool that can help users decrypt CryptXXX affected files for free.

Most people are familiar with the graphics processor unit (GPU), which is an important part of making your PC or smartphone graphically and video enabled. In fact, the GPU has a long history.

Every two years a release of Ubuntu is designated Long-Term Support (LTS). Ubuntu 16.04, code-named Xenial Xerus, is the latest in that line. LTS releases are supported for five years instead of the usual nine months, but they also have less obvious implications. LTS releases are usually geared toward the enterprise, which means they generally include fewer new features and more testing. Both qualities are attractive to risk-averse companies running production software on Ubuntu servers, but provide comparatively little to the desktop user.

While it has only been a few weeks since I last said it, it’s worth repeating in context of Apple’s recent financial results: iPhones don’t matter any more, it’s what you do with them that counts.

Online entertainment listings company Rovi plans to acquire digital video recording firm TiVo for $1.1 billion in a stock and cash deal, the companies said Friday.

Readers of this column know that retailers have little to fear from online rivals as long as they focus on services and products that brick-and-mortar retailers can do better than anyone else. Play by e-tail rules and you'll lose every time. Strut your physical store advantages and you win. I've argued this time and time and time again. But this month, Prada and Saks reminded retailers that they should have nothing to fear from Amazon.

Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft's inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best.

The Supreme Court has adopted amendments to a rule to give judges the authority to issue warrants to remotely search computers whose locations are concealed using technology.

Amazon showed off its dominance in the public cloud market on Thursday as the capstone to a better than expected quarterly earnings report.

It's a couple years ago, and this IT pilot fish is getting set for a road trip. The purpose: Visit his company's 30 remote offices for a major networking upgrade.

Artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning will play a key role in shaping the future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's annual Founders' Letter to stockholders on Thursday.

Google hires Motorola prez to head up a new merged hardware division. This is HUGE news -- it shows la GOOG's hand in the future of Nexus, ChromeOS, the living room, and even the ridiculous Google Glass.