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A Hong Kong-based technology manufacturer, USBKill.com, has taken data security to the "Mission Impossible" extreme by creating a USB stick that uses an electrical discharge to fry an unauthorized computer into which it's plugged.

Sept. 8, 2017

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We at Apple are aware that many of our fans are perturbed about a recent revolutionary change that we've made to our latest and greatest piece of technology, the iPhone 8. While most of our wonderful enthusiasts understand that Apple is a forward-looking company that works to bring the future to today, some who may not have the same imagination have expressed doubts about the new phone. "Why remove a technology that so many are still using?" they ask.

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While Box is probably best known for its user-facing storage and content services, the company is also operating a separate platform for developers, and it received a handful of updates Thursday.

Engaging customers is an ongoing challenge for companies large and small, but Salesforce has been working to make it easier. On Thursday, the CRM giant took its efforts a big step further with the launch of Lightning Bolt, a new product designed to jump-start the process of building customer communities, portals, and websites.

U.S. authorities have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in dumping details on 29,000 officials with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Google today continued its campaign to tighten the screws on unencrypted web traffic as it outlined the next steps it will take with Chrome to warn users of insecure connections.

Kuna is a smart home security camera in a stylish outdoor light that detects and allows you to interact with people outside your door. The security device includes HD live and recorded video, two-way intercom, alarm, smart motion detection alerts to your phone, and more. Easy 15 minute installation with no batteries to replace so you have continuous protection around the clock. Be protected at all times - Access HD live video with its 720P wide angle camera, communicate via its two way intercom from your mobile device... Читать дальше...

Mercedes-Benz plans to make electric vans with automated flying drones as part of a $562 million, five-year investment aimed at speeding delivery times for online product orders.

For Robert Hurt, some of his earliest memories are of sitting with his dad in their den watching the original Star Trek and dreaming of space travel and astronomy.

Intel believes untethered headsets could be a new class of PCs in the future, and the company may develop chips dedicated to those devices.

Florida man Nathan Dornacher, who had his Galaxy Note 7 for only four days, didn’t know Samsung had issued a “recall” until his phone “exploded” and the resulting fire totaled his Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Google plans to acquire API management vendor Apigee in a US$625 million deal that will give the search giant secure and multilanguage API tools used by companies bringing more and more of their services online.

Most users lock their computer screens when they temporarily step away from them. While this seems like a good security measure, it isn't good enough, a researcher demonstrated this week.

IBM is making headlines with its quantum computing research and brain-like chip called TrueNorth, but it also is bringing interesting technologies to its current Power server lineup.

A wind farm in California. An aircraft factory in Germany. An auto body fabrication plant in Ohio. Seemingly as different as their geographical locations, all have one thing in common: they are all connected to the Internet of Things.

Ransomware is on the rise. These cyberattacks, in which hackers encrypt their victims’ data and demand ransom money for decryption, cost Americans more than $209 million in the first three months of 2016, according to the FBI.This suggests that ransomware losses may total $1 billion for the year. And that’s only for the attacks that were reported. Many go unreported as victims quietly pay up rather than risk losing the trust of their customers by going public. That’s because, although key precautions... Читать дальше...

Data loss and breaches can cost businesses plenty in terms of lost productivity, lost revenue, damage to the brand, and expensive recovery efforts. But for healthcare providers, the stakes are even higher. Failure to adequately protect clinical and patient data literally could cost lives.

To the old legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the European Union's highest court has added another: Innocence until proven profitable.

First the news: HPE, the relatively new company that itself was the creation of the cleaving of Hewlett-Packard's printer and other businesses, is undergoing yet another change. After a series of HPE divestments, the company announced yesterday that it is planning on spinning off its "non-core" software assets and merging them with Micro Focus.

Apple’s decision to refrain from announcing that macOS Sierra will ship on September 20 during its iPhone 7 reveal set me thinking. I love Macs. I love them for the same reason I always did – they are the world’s best creative tools to enable creative people to do creative things.

DevOps is transforming how developers and operations teams work together to deliver better software faster. At its core, DevOps is about automation. When several tasks in development, testing, and deployment are automated, developers can make changes to code and deploy to production frequently. Amazon, a leading devops proponent, at one point claimed to have more than 1,000 deployments a day.

Intel’s plans to spin out its security business under the McAfee name could be clouded by the plans of security expert and businessman John McAfee, who claims he had not assigned the rights to his personal name.

Microsoft keeps making news of the privacy front, and not in a good way.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will spin off and merge what it considers its non-core software assets with U.K.-based enterprise software firm Micro Focus in a deal worth $8.8 billion, the company said Wednesday.

Ireland will join Apple in appealing the European Commission’s finding that Apple owes the country more than $14 billion in back taxes.