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Forget hoverboards. The Segway miniPRO is a smarter, stronger and safer personal transporter, UL 2272 Certified for the highest standards of electrical and fire safety requirements established by Underwriter Laboratories. The miniPRO has large air-filled tires suitable for almost any terrain. Its innovative knee bar makes steering easy and precise, and its powerful lithium-ion battery will take you up to 14 miles on a single charge at speeds of up to 10 miles per hour. Automatic head and tail-lights produce maximum visibility night or day... Читать дальше...

Data stolen from a bank quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and passcodes are changed. But data from the healthcare industry, which includes both personal identities and medical histories, can live a lifetime.

One of the challenges on the way to realizing the benefits of quantum computing is finding a way to compactly assemble and then precisely control enough quantum bits to deliver on the technology's enormous processing potential.

There's not much to go on here, but a report in Digitimes suggested today that Microsoft is working on an all-in-one (AIO) desktop (think an iMac running Windows 10) to compliment their tablet and what many believe will be a Surface phone debuting soon.

After demonstrating discontinuous jumps in image recognition performance and defeating Korean grandmaster Lee Se-dol at Go, a game long resistant to computer mastery, deep learning has kicked up a swirling cloud of hype. And controversy.

Watson might schedule your meetings someday if a partnership between IBM and Cisco Systems bears the fruit they’re hoping for.

Dell has stopped selling Android devices as it steps away from slate-style tablets to focus on Windows 2-in-1 devices.

Commenters have scoffed at Microsoft's backtracking from a widely-criticized practice to trick users into upgrading to Windows 10, arguing that it was nothing more than a public relations ploy employed when the free upgrade was just weeks from expiring.

Google Calendar, the company's time-management and scheduling app, was down for many users for about two hours today.

Congress is running out of time to stop proposed changes in federal court rules that will expand the FBI's authority to hack into computers during criminal investigations, a senator said Thursday.

LizardStresser, the DDoS malware for Linux systems written by the infamous Lizard Squad attacker group, was used over the past year to create over 100 botnets, some built almost exclusively from compromised Internet-of-Things devices.

As the PC upgrade cycle slows down, HP is hoping to revive sales with a new devices-and-services pitch. 

I’ve always loved the Mac.

Let me put that right out there. But Apple’s recent announcement that OS X has gone bye-bye in favor of “macOS” will do nothing for the Mac except accelerate its downward spiral as a fringe hardware product.

Even though operating systems are now free of charge across the board -- Linux, OS X/macOS and Windows (for the time being), the “Big Three” share the complexity of numbering suffixes when it comes to their OS names.

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Go to almost any meeting these days and you'll see a sea of laptops around the table and sometimes some iPads or other tablets. That lets people look up information, take notes and do on-the-fly research during the meeting.

WWDC 2016 and Apple made many moves to improve accessibility across its products, but the introduction of a version of the Apple Watch Activity app for wheelchair users was a particularly big deal. You see, there’s never been an accurate fitness tracker like this before, and Apple has been working on it for at least a year.

Businesses that want to get their files out of on-premises data centers and into the cloud now have a new option from Box.

Microsoft appears to be building a business app store. The company put online a test version of a service called AppSource that’s designed to help businesses find software that augments the Microsoft products they already use, such as Power BI and Dynamics AX.

Have a need for speed? Then you're in luck.

Google, along with five other companies, is hitting the on switch for its trans-Pacific internet cable today. The creatively name FASTER is, not surprisingly, really fast. 

Connecting the west coast of the U.S. with the east coast of Japan, FASTER will provide an internet boost for those areas, but the rest of us won't see much of a difference. For the time being, at least. There is more to come. 

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Joshua Jacobs, a senior security systems administrator, was once told by a hiring manager that when looking at his resume, he assumed Jacobs was "just another sys admin," but after interviewing him, he realized he was much more than that. That's when Jacobs knew it was time to work on his resume. We heard Jacobs plight and teamed him up with Andrew Ysasi, president of Admovio and executive director of Kent Record Management, who took on the task of reformatting Jacobs' resume to reflect his impressive background and skills. Читать дальше...

Here's the scenario: It's 2022 and you're cruising along in your new self-driving car when it swings around a curve and bears down on a dozen people right in front of you on the road. If it swerves to save them, you die. If it saves you, well, it doesn't look good for the unlucky dozen.

This IT pilot fish has just been notified that he's about to be laid off, and he's scrambling to find a new job while the clock ticks down on the notice period.

Just over a year ago, two job applicants filed a lawsuit against Google. They claimed they were rejected because of their age. Both were over 40.

Facebook can resume tracking Belgians online even if they don't have an account with the social network, an appeals court has ruled.

A database described by some as a "terrorism blacklist" has fallen into the hands of a white-hat hacker who may decide to make it accessible to the public online.

Email attachments are probably the most common mechanism for infecting a Windows computer. As potential victims get wise to the tried and true infection schemes, bad guys have a relatively new wrinkle - the attached malicious file is JavaScript. JavaScript, or more correctly in this case, JScript files, are plain text files that end in ".js".