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Google's Larry Page is reportedly investing $100 million in trying to build flying cars.

It's every marketer's goal to reach customers in the right place, at the right time and with the right message, but the online world doesn't make that easy. A new tool announced Thursday uses machine learning to help.

Lenovo's new Phab2 Pro, developed with Google, brings augmented reality to smartphone screens without the need for a headset.

Lenovo will build more virtual and augmented reality devices after its new Phab2 Pro smartphone, and virtual reality headsets may be high on that list.

Many approaches are being tried in the race to develop a working quantum computer, but Google this week reported using a combination of techniques with particularly promising results.

Demand for security information and event management (SIEM) technology is high, but that doesn’t mean businesses are running these products and services smoothly.

Tesla is making headlines again.

The company has announced they will offer the flagship electric car in a base version for a cool $66,000, which is well below the asking price for the high-end model I tested recently. (That version runs $140,000 with all of the bells and whistles.) The car is essentially the same in terms of the size and styling, but the battery is limited to bring the price down.

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HTC on Thursday announced a Vive Virtual Reality package focused on business users for $1,200 that includes dedicated customer support.

Now you see it; now you don't.

As any Android fan can tell you, Google's become a bit notorious for changing its mind about Android features over the years. The company has a history of launching new concepts or ideas, promoting them as the way of the future -- and then, a short time later, casually flip-flopping and going back to the way things were before.

I'm not even talking about the semi-frequent axing of standalone Google apps. I'm talking about broad ideas introduced to the platform and then reversed soon after. Читать дальше...

A U.S. agency has lined up broad support for its plan to end the government's oversight of the Internet's domain name system, despite opposition from some Republicans in Congress.

"The future is here," or so stated Adrian Flux Insurance Services, an insurance broker out of Norfolk, England, that announced it will issue policies for self-driving cars.

It seems that the industry has reached a nearly unanimous conclusion about a key essential for tight information security -- people.

I consider myself something of an athlete. I'm not particularly good, or particularly successful, but I run a lot (at least for a weekend warrior, around 2,000 miles per annum) and I race events from 5km up to 100km. Like many other middle-aged athletes, I'm time poor and need to fit training into a busy life. Add to that the fact that, as we get older the body tends to get less flexible and recovers from injury slower, and you end up with an entire generation who is looking for tools that help them train better and more effectively. Читать дальше...

We are seeing numerous surveys and Apple-related data points this week as the industry prepares for Apple’s WWDC. In sum they suggest Apple stands at a critical moment, while its potential to woo customers from other platforms now appears entrenched.

As deadlines go, Jan. 1, 2017, isn’t far away, yet many organizations still haven’t switched their digital certificates and signing infrastructure to use SHA-2, the set of cryptographic hash functions succeeding the weaker SHA-1 algorithm. SHA-1 deprecation must happen; otherwise, organizations will find their sites blocked by browsers and their devices unable to access HTTPS sites or run applications.

If there's one thing that separates Asus from its competitors, it's the company's willingness to experiment with new designs.

Ever have the feeling that your business sponsors don’t really listen to you?

Underwater exploration has never been a cheap endeavor. Aside from a submarine or an underwater rover, your options for unlocking the secrets of the deep are rather limited.

U.S. plans to transfer the oversight of key technical Internet functions to an international multi-stakeholder governance model have run into hurdles, with two bills being introduced on Wednesday that would require the government to first take the approval of Congress for the transition.

The biggest names in data centers and clouds are now vying to dominate the emerging IT battleground in factories, vehicles and power plants.

Dating app Tinder is shutting down service for under-18s. The official reason is hazy at best, but a moment’s thought says it’s bad news for the safety of minors.

A modern car has dozens of computers with as much as 100 million lines of code -- and for every 1,000 lines there are as many as 15 bugs that are potential doors for would-be hackers.

This network provider's customer is moving to the building next door -- just about 50 feet, says a pilot fish working on the job.

Who knew that getting a taste of virtual reality could be so cheap?

That's what Executive News Editor Ken Mingis discovered recently when a Google Cardboard VR viewer showed up in the mail -- thanks New York Times -- along with instructions to download the NYT VR app (for iOS or for Android). And in a moment, what Mingis had routinely dismissed as something akin to 3D TV became "Dayumn, this is cool." 

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For longtime Computerworld columnist Thornton May, the inevitability of technical progression means that a key skill for IT leaders is to anticipate what’s coming and determine what will be worth incorporating into the business and what will be little more than a fad. Here are some of May's predictions for what to keep on your radar going forward.