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A third of the iPhones now in use are three or more years old, an app analytics vendor said a day before Apple unveils the new iPhone 7.

AT&T and Qualcomm said Tuesday they will be testing drones on commercial 4G LTE wireless networks.

To get small, low-power IoT devices online, it’s no longer necessary to saddle them with full-scale cellular radios. Independent players like Sigfox and Ingenu are expanding their specialized networks, and now a low-power version of LTE is coming to major operators.

Volvo Cars today announced a partnership with Swedish-American vehicle safety systems supplier Autoliv Inc. to form a new jointly-owned company to develop autonomous driving software.

The dog days of summer are over, and it's time to get back to work. While you were out enjoying the sunshine and sipping margaritas, Amazon continued to update its cloud platform with new services like Kinesis Analytics, which lets users query streaming data with SQL. 

Connecting with family and friends, and having them comment on Facebook posts, can be as uplifting as getting married or having kids, according to a new study.

Big data has been a big buzzword for more than a few years already, and it's got some solid numbers to back that up, including $46 billion in 2016 revenues for vendors of related products and services. But the big data era is still just beginning to dawn, with the real growth yet to come.

Apple last week proudly rolled out some new capabilities for Siri, which will presumably take effect with iOS 10’s rollout on Wednesday (Sept. 7). The changes address one of my long-sought capabilities, which is to make getting a ride a lot easier. Alas, it demands more specificity than would be optimal. 

Within two years, a majority of enterprises expect to be running their workloads in the cloud.

Makers of the controversial Brave browser last week began testing a payment system that ultimately will be used to compensate websites when their revenue-generating ads are blocked, then replaced by Brave with its own.

Apple will add support for Sony's Felica RFID communications technology to the new iPhone 7 that is expected to be announced on Wednesday, according to a report in The Nikkei newspaper.

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General Electric today announced plans to spend $1.4 billion to acquire two of the world's top suppliers of metal-based 3D printing manufacturing equipment, Arcam AB and SLM Solutions Group AG.

Google has released another large monthly batch of security patches for Android, this time fixing 55 vulnerabilities, eight of which are rated critical.

Intelligence and law enforcement agencies are reportedly investigating whether Russia has launched a broad, covert operation to disrupt the U.S. elections in November.

Security researchers have identified a new family of Linux rootkits that, despite running from user mode, can be hard to detect and remove.

When all else fails, some people play the desperate “it’s for the children” card. This time it is Microsoft, desperate for people to use its Edge Browser. One of the changes Microsoft tossed into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is for the children; blocking some third-party browsers by default is supposedly meant to keep kids safer.

I’m a Linux guy, but I kind of like Windows 10. However, its luster has been wearing thin. First, there was Cortana’s eavesdropping. Then there was the insanely buggy Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Adding insult to injury, Microsoft now force-feeds us updates and gives us only 10 days to roll them back.

The job of keeping networks safe from attack is growing more complex by the day. At the same time, demand for trained and experienced information security analysts is exceeding the supply. This combination of factors is leading to an almost inevitable result -- the outsourcing of day-to-day security operations to outside companies. 

Developers regularly underestimate any effort they expect from consumers. The coder thinks, "This is easy. Just press the button that says 'Hello' and the action happens." But the user's experience is more like, "In the middle of the situation, I have to remember which app to open. I  have to scroll through my apps to find it and then open it and then find the screen where it says 'Hello.' Too much hassle."

Intel's RealSense computer vision platform has been lacking a low-powered way of recognizing what its depth-sensing cameras are seeing -- until now.

Last month Microsoft debuted its first major update to Windows 10, technically called version 1607 but generally known as the Anniversary Update. You may have seen stories around the web delving into the update's general improvements including a smarter Cortana, Edge extensions and Windows Ink, but rarely have the Anniversary Update's new Wi-Fi and networking features and interfaces been discussed.

If you’re pursuing a career in IT security, certifications can only help you. Certification-critics often say a certification means nothing, and acumen and experience are the true differentiators, but as a holder of dozens of IT security certifications, I beg to differ. So do employers.

It's summer 2016, and this IT pilot fish is doing a hardware upgrade for a long-time client -- and things aren't going as smoothly as they might.

Apple’s big iPhone reveal is approaching and Mac users like you and I are hoping we will soon be able to use the final version of the big macOS update, Sierra. When we get to do this (and it may not be for a few more weeks yet), here are a few things we can look forward to doing in the new OS.