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Google, Amazon and Facebook can magically recognize images and voices, thanks to superfast servers equipped with GPUs in their mega data centers.

The contentious presidential election lit up Twitter with users posting more than 1 billion tweets about the election since the Republican debates began in August 2015.

Adobe Systems has released scheduled security patches for its widely used Flash Player software as well as the Adobe Connect web conferencing platform, which is popular in enterprise environments.

Regardless of your political leanings, if you're a data nerd, Election Night can be a very interesting time. Here are some R resources that might come in handy tonight.

Samsung announced that the upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone will include the company’s own digital assistant.

Lenovo created a stir when it said the Yoga 900 and 900S hybrids would work only with Windows, not Linux. The company has now changed its stance, bringing Linux support to those PCs.

There is a fairly standard narrative around cloud computing that says that the bulk of workloads will end up sitting with two of three mega-vendors in the public cloud space. At the same time, those organizations that need their workload on an on-premises or private cloud will leverage either a proprietary platform (VMware, for example) or one from an open source initiative like OpenStack. That narrative doesn't leave much room for specialist hosting vendors who get squeezed out between the various players. Читать дальше...

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Google released a new monthly batch of security patches for Android, fixing a dozen critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise devices. One of the mitigated issues is a bit-flipping attack against memory chips that could lead to privilege escalation, but a more widespread rooting vulnerability in the Linux kernel remains unpatched.

The enduring magic of the iPhone is that it can be a different device for every single person who owns one, thanks to the ever-growing universe of apps for everything you may possibly want to do.

SAP wants businesses struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation in its HANA in-memory database to relax as it readies a new version, to be known as HANA 2.

Facebook users will be able to record smartphone videos that ape the style of famous artworks with a new feature unveiled Tuesday. Using a technique called style transfer, the feature takes live video and turns it into something that resembles the work of Van Gogh, Picasso and other artists.

If Apple sticks with its typical 12-to 18-month refresh for the MacBook Pro line, Intel's Optane solid state drives (SSDs) stand a good chance of being used in the next generation computers.

The war against spam has been a long one. Just as we get better filtering, spammers and phishers turn to more sophisticated techniques. We are even seeing ransomware attacks like Cryptolocker and Cryptowall become commonly spread over email. There must be a technical way to stop some of this, right?

A political backlash is growing over a plan by the University of California, San Francisco, to shift IT jobs overseas. The school is hiring an India-based IT services contractor, and IT workers are expecting to train their foreign replacements.

There's a network-related outage at this food manufacturer's office, and the IT manager pilot fish is scrambling to get things working again.

The most disturbing thing for foreign businesses facing China's new cybersecurity law may just be how vague and broad it is.

Starting carrier services like routing and security is getting faster and easier thanks to a new way of deploying them that doesn’t require specialized equipment at customer’s sites.

The day that we've all been waiting for or waiting to get beyond is now upon us. As one of the most contentious political elections ever crashes to a close, it's time to think like the techies we are. So, here are some reasons why scripts are so much better and often more reliable than politicians.

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In Minnesota on Sunday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump added IBM to the list of companies he criticizes for moving jobs offshore or to Mexico. Trump's line was a one sentence throwaway at the Twin Cities rally, but it may have resonated with this rally crowd.