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Microsoft will stop manufacturing Surface 3 by the end of the year, which raises a big question: Will there be a Surface 4?

“I’m an important person. I am so important that the things I have to say should not have to wait until a video is formatted correctly, saved to my drive, uploaded and shared on YouTube. And, you should drop everything and watch right now.”

Artificial intelligence is still surrounded by an aura of mystery, and it would be tough to find a better illustration than the story in the news last week about a British grandmother who includes "please" and "thank you" in all her Google searches.

Google is using virtual reality technology to bring LGBTQ Pride parades to people who want but can't attend one.

The Brexit vote puts a drag on global IT spending, but the U.K. will see the worst impact, Gartner said in a new spending forecast.

Apple has begun testing Safari 10 with developers running the 2014 and 2015 editions of macOS, preparing for a fall release of the updated browser to users of Yosemite and El Capitan.

You can't put SSDs on the Raspberry Pi 3, but a competitive board coming soon will have that option.

Business executives are able to hold two contradictory thoughts in their heads: Technology is costly, but the internal IT services they use are free. An IT governance process is the way to get those execs to understand IT’s true costs — and opportunities.

I've written about Bitnami many times in the past. It's CEO, Erica Brescia, is one of a (sadly) small number of tech startup founders who happen to be women. And, while that makes a great headline or discussion point, it's Bitnami's success, outside of any gender-specific focus that really interests me.

The U.S. and the European Union have reportedly reached an agreement on the language of a key data transfer pact, including limits on U.S. surveillance.

Britain votes to leave the EU, but what does this mean for the technology industry? Let’s take a look at the situation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Lenovo has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Lenovo Solution Center support tool that is preinstalled on many laptop and desktop PCs. The flaws could allow attackers to take over computers and terminate antivirus processes.

This bias lighting strip, currently discounted by 54% on Amazon from $49.99 down to just $22.99, reduces eye-strain caused by differences in picture brightness from scene to scene in movies, shows and games, by adding a subtle backlight to your monitor or TV.  The LED lights can be changed with up to 20 color selections customizing and setting the mood of your workspace. The strip is easy to install and can be cut to size and plugs directly in the USB port of the TV or monitor.  Just Plug-and-play! Читать дальше...

If your ear is attached to your phone during much of the workday, you are in the market for a serious headset such as Plantronics' new Voyager 5200. The latest in the Voyager series of mobile headsets, the look of the 5200 isn't subtle -- when you're wearing it, you (and everyone else) will know you're got a headset on. But that is unimportant compared to its many features, comfortable fit and excellent sound quality. It is currently selling for $120 (vendor price).

Scheduled to ship in Fall with a public beta next month, macOS Sierra brings numerous improvements, with Siri making its debut on the Mac. In this report I’ll explain what you need to know to use Siri with your Mac.

With the haircut that the sterling-euro exchange rate has taken in the wake of the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union, the U.K. has suddenly become a low-cost country for companies wishing to host or process the personal information of EU citizens.

Every channel is its own island, with its own strengths and weaknesses. The temptation is to try and make every island universal. Target this week learned that sometimes less is more.

The U.S. Defense Department's research and development arm is offering to fund projects that will simplify the massively complex task of building models for machine learning applications.

Seagate is targeting drones and robots as it looks to add its storage technologies to new devices.

A U.S. court has ruled that the FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant -- a move that is troubling privacy advocates.

We are living in some interesting and exciting times in regards to technology.

Apple is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the high-resolution external display that users of the MacBook and other Macs could use to get a better picture and work with more apps.

If you've reviewed tech products for as long as I have, you'll have learned that categories of products have archetypes. These days, for example, laptops are (for the most part) slim black boxes and monitors are thin glass rectangles. Mobile phones, which used to have clamshell designs, are now all metal (or metal-looking) slabs with a glass front. And home wireless routers tend to be small black boxes bristling with more antennas than an NSA surveillance van.

This database developer pilot fish has spent four well-paid years under contract to a data marketing company, and he's very well liked by his fellow developers -- though not so much by some members of management.

There are two approaches for remotely controlling a computer, calling out and dialing in.