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Sales of Windows PCs fared better than Apple Macs during the third quarter this year.

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were handing over data to a monitoring tool that law enforcement agencies were using to track protesters, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Roosevelt, Utah, now has the distinction of being the first city in North America to have a flying car school. The location was chosen both for its mountainous terrain and concentration of reputable instructors, according to Mark Jennings-Bates, vice president of sales for PAL-V.

Facebook is about to find out if its new enterprise-focused collaboration tool can thread the needle between social tool and social disturbance in the office.

Samsung formally stopped production, sales and exchanges of its Note7 smartphones early Tuesday, after several weeks of reports that the devices -- and even their replacements -- overheated, smoked and caught fire.

Microsoft has told business customers that when they run into problems with Windows 7's new patch maintenance regime they should file a ticket with the company's support desk.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments in a long-running Apple and Samsung patent dispute on Tuesday, seemed to question a 19th-century law that allows huge infringement damages in design patent cases.

Documents in a class-action lawsuit against Ford and its original MyFord Touch in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system reveal that the company's engineers and even its top executive were frustrated with the problematic technology.

A second hacking group is also trying to rob banks by exploiting the SWIFT money transfer system, following a $81 million heist in February that used a similar approach.

Google's weird wireless service just keeps getting better.

You've heard of Project Fi by now, right? It's an experimental cell plan from Google that works with Nexus and Pixel phones. In a nutshell, it seamlessly switches your phone between a handful of networks -- Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular -- to get you the best possible signal at any given time or place. It also taps into reliable public Wi-Fi networks (with its own layer of encryption in place) and uses those for your calls and data whenever it can. Читать дальше...

After years of being offered as separate technologies, storage and memory are beginning to merge. It's already happening, for example, with 3D Xpoint, a technology from Intel and Micron that can serve as memory, storage, or both.

The long fight over LTE networks sharing frequencies with Wi-Fi may be just the first of many battles as device makers and service providers try to make the most of the limited available spectrum.

Much like the mainframe, tape still has its place. It’s a veteran technology that is heralded for being cheap, reliable and simple, and advancements continue. Even so, by the time you’ve invested in tape robots for automation and verification steps to make sure your backup actually captured your data, all that labor and infrastructure means tape isn’t as cheap as the per-megabyte costs make it look.

Researchers warn that many 1024-bit keys used to secure communications on the internet today might be based on prime numbers that have been intentionally backdoored in an undetectable way.

No one doubts anymore that internet of things (IoT) devices pose a huge security threat, as a recent massive IoT-fueled DDoS attack made clear. But what many enterprises have yet to wake up to is that major structural changes are needed, involving IT and C-level executives above IT. IoT is a new and different kind of threat that can’t be effectively battled in an old-fashioned way. 

by Tilman M. Davies, no starch press, 2016

You might not have ever heard of the programming language R but, if you're doing data analysis, it might be just the language you need. And this particular book on R is one that is likely to teach you everything you might need to know. Yes, I mean everything.

A full two inches thick and nearly 800 pages long, The Book of R promises to teach you everything you need to be productive in using this language – that includes the basic syntax of the language... Читать дальше...

You’d be forgiven for assuming, given all the hype we hear about mobile devices, that laptops and (gasp) even desktops are completely obsolete. While it is true that I can perform far more of my daily important tasks on a mobile device than I ever could before, the fact that I am typing this blog post on a laptop should be a good indication that, at least for some use cases, desk-based devices (and, as an aside, we really need a better descriptor for devices, as a class, that aren’t mobile) are still key. Читать дальше...

Apple is going big on Siri, but it seems to be missing a trick, the unexplored potential of weaving support for its intelligent assistant online at Apple.com.

Samsung Electronics has discontinued production of its Galaxy Note7 smartphone, which has been plagued since its introduction in August by battery problems that caused fires and even explosions.

It’s long been known that Silicon Valley has a monochromatic white-bro culture in which minorities and women are severely underrepresented. But a problem that is just as serious is only now coming into focus: The tech industry is ageist as well. If you’re of a certain age and you’re looking for a job in tech, you need not apply.

It seems that creating an exploding smartphone was not a good business decision for Samsung.

To keep employees' unhappiness from reaching a tipping point, companies are turning to more frequent surveys to gauge the mood of their staffers, thanks to a slew of new survey and collaboration tools that make pulse-taking easier.

The U.S. Supreme Court is to hear arguments Tuesday in a closely watched dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple on the procedure for calculation of damages for the infringement of design patents.

U.S. accusations that WikiLeaks is helping Russian hackers influence the upcoming election hasn't stopped the controversial website from dumping emails, allegedly stolen from a Hillary Clinton aide.

This IT pilot fish is working under contract at a government facility, along with one other IT person -- a junior tech making considerably less.