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Microsoft today acknowledged that it would not make its self-imposed goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by mid-2018.

NASA is ready to wrap up the final design and begin building the next Mars rover, which is set to search, for the first time, for signs of past life on the planet.

Samsung Electronics is on the verge of making a substantial investment in BYD, a Chinese manufacturer of electric cars and batteries.

Privacy-minded people have long relied on Tor for anonymity online, but a new system from MIT promises better protection and faster performance.

There's nothing like a name that can lead to rampant confusion.

Although they insist it works like the pilot-assisted feature in planes (which requires that the pilot pays attention), Tesla needs to realize that the term "autopilot" has many connotations for drivers. The news about a recent fatality when a truck pulled in front of a driver has spurred a new discussion. Now, it is all about the name.

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A newly discovered fake Pokemon Go game will actually lock your phone and then secretly run in the background, clicking on porn ads.

It’s a kids game. Let’s all chill out a little, right?

Yet, even for large companies, executives, those who follow tech trends, or anyone who watches the news once in awhile, you have to admit that Pokemon Go is one of the most important new advancements in gaming in over a decade. It has made Flappy Bird seem like a quaint diversion for a select few. It has even made Apple products seem like something you’d have to actually advertise about to attract new customers.

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AT&T is now using drones to conduct aerial inspections of its cellular towers and foresees them as a way to beef up its wireless LTE network.

Having dominated the mobile world for some time, ARM -- the company whose CPU design is in Apple's iPhone -- is now going after the fastest computers in the world.

The U.S. National Science Foundation will spend more than $400 million over the next seven years to fund next-generation wireless research in an effort to bring super-fast mobile service to the country.

Cisco Systems released patches this week for several vulnerabilities in its IOS software for networking devices and the Cisco and WebEx conferencing servers.

People aren’t stupid, but even smart people can be misled, and misleading is what the recent deluge of “iPhone 7 will be boring” nonsense will turn out to be, once Apple takes the wraps of its new, hyper-connected device. Here’s what we know:

Gaurav Dhillon knows a thing or two about integration. In his twenties, he co-founded Informatica and helped thousands of enterprises deal with the challenges of application and data integration in the client-server world. Now, as CEO of San Mateo, California-based SnapLogic, Dhillon is tackling the integration challenges IT shops face in the new world of cloud.

A new Trojan that can steal your payment data will also try to stymie you from alerting your bank.

Tesla Motors has been asked by a U.S. Senate Committee to brief it on the circumstances leading to a fatal accident that killed the driver of a Tesla Model S, while the vehicle’s Autopilot driver-assistance software was turned on.

The xargs command is one that many Unix users take advantage of in only some familiar context, such as using it along with a find command to do something with the particular files once you find them. But it can used for doing a lot of other things on the command line that might surprise you.

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The European Union's European Commission has brought charges against Google. Again.

When Starbucks announced this month that its software had rolled out a price increase weeks before it was supposed to, it exposed how easily such a mistake can happen. That's a critical lesson for all of retail.

Privacy advocates, especially those outside the U.S., can rest a little easier now.  A federal court has rebuked the U.S. government’s attempt to access emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland.

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It sometimes seems as if business travel is expressly designed to raise blood pressure. Cancelled flights, long airport security lines, even a misplaced receipt for your expense report can throw a monkey wrench into your trip. To help, we’ve rounded up several mobile apps designed to reduce travel stress in a variety of ways, from booking a flight or last-minute hotel room to finding a quiet airport lounge or secure Wi-Fi hotspot. With one exception,... Читать дальше...

In light of several accidents that have involved its assisted driving technology, Tesla should rethink just how much automation it provides to drivers, automotive experts said today.

It's the mid-1990s, and this IT pilot fish is working on a big infrastructure project -- replacing computer control equipment that dates from way back in the 1960s.

As smartwatches and other wearables gain popularity, experts are warning of potential data security risks in workplaces.

The idea that Microsoft would eventually unveil a subscription licensing model for Windows 10 -- the so-called Windows-as-a-Service (WaaS) model -- has been bandied about for a while now. This week Microsoft made that idea real, but only for enterprise customers. At its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto, the company announced the details of Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and Windows Enterprise E5.