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Cisco Systems cast a vote of confidence in one of the many technologies that might get your next IoT device online.

A U.S. senator has stalled an intelligence budget bill over concerns that it would expand surveillance while limiting oversight of it.

Have you ever pulled a policy or procedure down from the internet, changed a few things and called it your own? If not, you are probably one of a small minority. Most of us have done this from time to time, and building on the work of another (assuming of course that it is not copyrighted) is a good way to start, as long as you make the proper adjustments to meet your specific needs.

The World Economic Forum has put together a list of the top 10 emerging technologies that will change our lives. The list includes nanosensors that will circulate through the human body, a battery that will be able to power an entire town and socially aware artificial intelligence that will track our finances and health.

Microsoft today said it will revamp the notification of a pending Windows 10 upgrade so that clicking the red "X" -- an action that for decades has been used to dismiss or ignore a dialog box -- will no longer be interpreted as authorizing the process.

The technology industry's e-waste problem isn't expected to go away anytime soon, but IBM just made a discovery that could help. Researchers there have discovered a new recycling process that can turn the polycarbonates used to make smartphones and CDs into a nontoxic plastic that's safe and strong enough for medical use.

After a year on the market, Microsoft’s Sway presentation software has received features available to paying customers.

As president, Hillary Clinton would support the automatic granting of green cards, or permanent residency, to foreign students who earn advanced STEM degrees in the U.S.

A hacker has stolen databases from three U.S. healthcare organizations and has advertised more than 650,000 patient records as up for sale.

Axcient was founded way back in 2009 with the aim of bringing business continuity and disaster recovery services (BC and DR as they are known in the acronym-mad tech industry) to small and mid-sized businesses.

Lavabit founder Ladar Levison last week confirmed what had been an open secret: That he shuttered his encrypted email service in 2013 because of the federal government's pursuit of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

Attackers have compromised more than 25,000 digital video recorders and CCTV cameras and are using them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites.

European Union rules for electronic signatures change on Friday to make a clear distinction between the identity of the person signing, and that of the authority guaranteeing the integrity of the data, but the technology needs to be still simpler, vendors say.

Online backup company Backblaze made waves last year when it announced a beta test last year of B2, a new public cloud storage service that would be cheaper than competing offerings from Amazon and Microsoft.

The past few years have seen an ever-increasing avalanche of high-profile and high-impact data breaches.

Microsoft's Outlook.com is used by some 400 million users around the world, so it's only natural that Salesforce wants its own software to play nicely with it. On Tuesday, the CRM giant announced a big step in that direction.

Apple has big challenges and some opportunities following the UK ‘Brexit’ decision to exit EU, Europe accounted for 21.5% of its revenue in FY 2015.

The recent referendum campaign in the UK reminded me of a familiar refrain thrown at data analysts like myself: “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

The fight over LTE networks sharing channels with Wi-Fi appears to be heating up.

You know what they say -- you're nobody 'til somebody hacks you. Well, luckily for Sundar Pichai, as of Sunday he is finally somebody. 

A move in the Senate to provide enhanced surveillance powers to the FBI through the use of National Security Letters (NSLs) met a hurdle Monday after Senator Ron Wyden placed a hold on the 2017 Intelligence Authorization bill over the controversial provisions.

While 3D printer sales will experience healthy growth over the next four years, consumer machines remain a technology in search of a purpose, according to researcher IDC.

This pilot fish is at a remote location and needs to get some work done on his laptop -- but when he starts up the machine, he discovers the mouse won't work.