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The Sunrise Calendar app will be sunsetting on Aug. 31, the team behind it announced in a blog post Wednesday. In the next few days, the app will no longer be available from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.

Finding insights in an ocean of data has become one of today's most pressing business challenges, and software vendors are rushing to help. The latest is Adobe, which has added a host of algorithms in its cloud services to help uncover patterns and put them to work.

With the creators of Siri offering up a new personal assistant that won't just tell you what pizza is but can order one for you, artificial intelligence is showing a huge leap forward.

Mozilla yesterday cranked up Test Pilot -- restoring a 2015 project with a name from 2009 -- to collect feedback on proposed new features for its flagship Firefox browser.

The U.S. Department of Defense is expanding its work with tech startups, bringing tech executives to work at its Silicon Valley lab and planning a new office in Boston to tap into research happening in that area.

Scala, a general-purpose language combining object-oriented and functional programming, is about to find another deployment option.

Japanese carmaker Nissan and power management company Eaton have unveiled a joint venture to provide wall-mountable lithium-ion batteries to power homes.

There are more reports of security breaches/hacking taking place each day. From traditional viruses to “ransomware” to malicious web sites, the amount and severity of threats, and the ease with which these malevolent threats are created, grows unabated. With increasing sophistication of threat actors, the number and severity of attacks is increasing, and the number being prevented is decreasing.

Linux has become a dominant OS for application back ends and micro-services in the cloud. Usage limits (aka ulimits) are a critical Linux application performance tuning tool. Docker is now the leading mechanism for application deployment and distribution and AWS ECS is one of the top Docker container services. It's more important than ever for developers to understand ulimits and how to use them in Linux, Docker and a service like AWS ECS.

IT professionals are looking to software-defined networking to automate what are still complex and vulnerable systems controlled by human engineers. Major General Sarah Zabel knows where they’re coming from.

The U.S. government is warning major corporations to check the configuration of their SAP software systems after a computer security company discovered at least 36 global enterprises were still vulnerable to a significant bug patched more than five years ago.

Adobe Systems is working on a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers are already exploiting in attacks. In the meantime, the company has released other security patches for Reader, Acrobat and ColdFusion.

Microsoft released patches for 51 vulnerabilities Tuesday, including one affecting Internet Explorer that hackers have exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in South Korea.

Microsoft had planned to release a Windows 10 update to the company's beta testers today, but the build got loose prematurely, ending up on some users' PCs late Tuesday.

Ransomware attacks on the House of Representatives have increased so much through third-party email providers that Yahoo Mail has been blocked until further notice.

A collection of over 76 premium courses to help you ace the PMP and CAPM exams. While this training bundle is normally valued at $1,495, it’s currently available for $49.99 for a limited time only.

The revelation in late April that Amazon has excluded minority neighborhoods in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C., from its Prime Free Same-Day Delivery service while extending the service to white neighborhoods probably shocked few minorities. They likely saw it as part of the same pattern of racism that has left many minority neighborhoods with crumbling infrastructure and housing, poor public transportation, little or no access to healthy food, and few places to buy goods. Читать дальше...

WhatsApp now has a desktop app, for Windows 8 and up or Mac OS 10.9 and up. But as a 60 MB download, it's incredibly bloated, given its lack of functionality.

I really need to upgrade my brain's internal storage.

I'm only partially kidding: Just like a hard drive, I'm pretty sure my mind reached maximum capacity at some point in the past decade. The only way I can remember anything these days is by making and maintaining a million notes, both physical and digital. (My wife can confirm this. "I told you that a week ago" is an all-too-common phrase around these parts.)

I'm still waiting for Western Digital to start selling SSD implants for the noggin... Читать дальше...

Windows power users, ftw!

Are you a Windows power user?

You know, the guy who everyone approaches when they’re having trouble with their computer. The guy who knows all the shortcuts, tricks and tips for just about any app or program on said computer. The guy who has an app for something most people didn’t even know you could do, let alone have an app for.

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What we call machine learning can take many forms. The purest form offers the analyst a set of data exploration tools, a choice of ML models, robust solution algorithms, and a way to use the solutions for predictions. The Amazon, Microsoft, Databricks, Google, and IBM clouds all offer prediction APIs that give the analyst various amounts of control. HPE Haven OnDemand offers a limited prediction API for binary classification problems.

This IT pilot fish has been laid off and is in the thick of his job hunt when he comes across a posting from a small engineering firm that's looking for a software developer.

Demo mode

Get that showroom feeling all over again by using the Apple TV’s hidden Demo Mode. You can get to the exact same set-up you find in every single Apple TV inside an Apple Store, and it’s easy to set this up. In Settings, choose General and then About. Click Play/Pause four times and you’re in Demo mode.

Best typing tip

Yes, it is tedious clicking through the on-screen keyboard to search for things on Apple TV, but you can make it a little easier with this tip (and these)... Читать дальше...

A hacker with alleged connections to members of the  Syrian Electronic Army appeared in a Virginia court Tuesday to face charges of participating in an extortion scheme that threatened victims to delete or sell data from compromised computers.  

Salesforce.com was having an outage in some locations on Tuesday, prompting the company’s CEO to apologize to users on Twitter.