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Microsoft today confirmed it has been pre-loading the Windows 10 installation bits onto devices whose owners have not "reserved" a copy or expressed interest in the new OS.

It's a basic fact of life that once you publish something on the Internet, it's pretty much impossible to get it back. Now illustrating that point with painful clarity, images of the TSA's master luggage keys have been published online, meaning that anyone with a 3D printer can make their own.

Football season is upon us, and that means it’s time to explore some of the best options for watching in widescreen glory, catching every turf-pounding tackle, and catching up on games in other cities. This roundup will help you set up the perfect entertainment room.

New launches of captive centers offshore continued to increase in the first half of 2015, according to research from outsourcing consultancy Everest Group. Companies in the manufacturing, telecommunications and technology industries, in particular, expanded their in-house presence offshore in the first and second quarters compared to last year. Manufacturers, for example, set up 18 new in-house centers in the first half of this year, compared to just six during the same period in 2014, according to Everest Group. Читать дальше...

Hackers who compromise websites are also increasingly verifying themselves as the owners of those properties in Google's Search Console. Under certain circumstances this could allow them to remain undetected longer than they otherwise would be, researchers warn.

Microsoft yesterday said it will launch Office 2016 for Windows on Sept. 22, and detailed how it will deliver updates and upgrades with a cadence and rules set similar to Windows 10's.

On the surface, Motorola's software seems pretty consistent from one phone to the next -- no surprise, given the company's "stock-plus" approach to Android. When you start to look closely, though, you find a few interesting surprises. 

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If free speech for humans is worth fighting for, is free speech for computers worth fighting against?

If you're reading this story over Wi-Fi, thank a department store designer.

In the quest to make a better radiation detector, engineers at DARPA are taking a leaf from crowd-sourcing and have developed one that's small and cheap, integrates with a smartphone and sends its data to the cloud.

A spat between two security companies shows just how sensitive reporting software vulnerabilities can be, particularly when it involves a popular product.

Researchers at security company ESET have found a type of malware that changes an Android device's PIN, the first of its kind in an ever-evolving landscape of ransomware attacks.

After three and a half years of legal wrangling, Ellen Pao will no longer be appealing the discrimination case she filed against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Responsive Web design makes scaling a website up and down for a mobile device easy. Almost as easy as it facilitates sloppy designs that don't even try to intelligently choose what stays, what goes and, most critically, what should stand by until it's needed.

Microsoft has made its Live Encoding service generally available as part of a slew of updates announced Thursday for the Azure Media Services suite. 

In just 10 years, we may live in a world where there are sensors in the walls of our houses, in our clothes and even in our brains.

Sue Schade worked as a nurse's aide in high school and college, and some members of her family were nurses. But while Schade says she "never thought seriously about being a clinician," she did end up in healthcare -- as an IT professional. Since 2012, Schade has been the CIO at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, where she oversees a 600-member IT team that supports 25,000 people.

Pilot fish is tasked with following up on a high-priority trouble ticket -- one that has been resolved by a tech, but flagged to get a quality-assurance check.

Apple has released iOS 9.1 beta to the public. So how's its performance, memory management, and task switching?

Apple's announcement Wednesday of its own iPhone installment plan, tucked toward the end of what CEO Tim Cook called a "monster roll-out," was the big deal of the morning-after talk about smartphones, analysts said.

LAS VEGAS -- In the expanding universe called the Internet of Things, even garbage bins will be networked together wirelessly. That way, a central console -- perhaps one that's monitored automatically -- can know whether a bin has been overturned or is full.

LAS VEGAS -- Apple gave Sprint a little gift this week with the new iPhone 6S in the form of faster wireless speeds via a technology called carrier aggregation.