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Best Deals of the Week - Deal Alert

Check out this roundup of the best deals on gadgets, gear and other cool stuff we have found this week, the week of August 1st. All items are highly rated, and dramatically discounted!

Angela Johnson's career began at a call center where she performed technical and customer support and end-user training for legal clients having trouble with the online legal research and database service WestLaw. But after a few years, during which time parent company West was acquired by Thomson Reuters, Johnson moved to Rockwell Automation, a manufacturing automation company whose products gathered and analyzed data about specific parts being machined on factory and plant floors.

A new technique allows attackers to hide malicious code inside digitally signed files without breaking their signatures, and then to load that code directly into the memory of another process.

The just-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be the version Microsoft's biggest customers use to migrate their PCs.

On the internet superhighway

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Our vehicles contain critical personal information such as our personal contacts, registration and insurance details, financial information and even the address to our home -- making entry, theft and further damage even more of a possibility. Our vehicles are truly an extension of one’s connected self and the technology associated with them offers substantial benefits.

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Today marks the fourth anniversary of NASA's rover Curiosity landing on the Red Planet and beginning its work to investigate Mars' history of habitability.

In the first head-to-head hacking competition of autonomous computers, a system developed by a team of Pittsburgh-based researchers is the presumptive winner.

It's an oft-repeated lament that getting your data into shape for analysis and visualization typically takes more time than the actual analysis and visualization. Yet while there are lots of players in the analysis/visualization space, I've encountered fewer commercial or open-source products targeted specifically at data wrangling. (Open Refine comes first to mind; while platforms like Dataiku DSS and Microsoft Power BI also offer wrangling options, for many it's not their only focus.)

Website payment systems today are pretty good at detecting bad attempts at authenticating. Things get tricky in two areas. The first is keeping track of how many bad attempts happen across different devices, browsers and IP addresses. That's critical if you want to enforce a "six authentication errors and we lock you out for two days" kind of policy. The second is trying to differentiate between someone trying to guess a password — or to use what they thought they saw while shoulder surfing —... Читать дальше...

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has described India as one of the company's fastest growing markets and has proposed to the government a program to offer refurbished phones in the country as a way to get around the high prices of its devices in a price-sensitive market.

You got to hand it to Samsung, on the same day over 100 of the world’s leading designers sign court papers supporting Apple in the never-ending patent case between the two companies, new patent filings come to light that will do nothing to reduce tension between the two firms.

Amazon has painted its first Amazon Prime Air cargo delivery plane -- and everyone is really excited about it.

For Apple fans, August usually represents the summer doldrums, the dead time between June's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) and September - when Apple rolls out new iPhones, operating systems and other bits of hardware ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Flashback to the turn of the millennium, when this programmer pilot fish is hired to help out with a factory's custom shop-floor applications.

Giant refrigerator-sized supercomputers battled each other on Thursday in a virtual contest to show that machines can find software vulnerabilities.

After years of reluctance to pay researchers for exploits, Apple has given in and is ready to hand out up to $200,000 for critical vulnerabilities found in the latest version of iOS and the newest iPhones.

Illinois' largest hospital chain today agreed to pay a $5.5 million fine by the government for lax data security that led to the exposure of more than 4 million electronic patient records.