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As Google I/O, the search giant's major developer conference, gets ready to kick off on Wednesday, enterprises will be curious to see if Google offers new artificial intelligence technology they can put to work.

The WannaCry ransomware has wormed its way into tens of thousands of Windows PCs in China, where Windows XP runs one in five systems, local reports said Monday.

There were dozens of announcements at Microsoft’s Build conference last week, but perhaps one caused the most angst among the cloud cognoscenti.

Forecasts for the drone market have been very aggressive.

One research firm predicts sales of drones will exceed $12 billion by 2021. Another says the market for drone-based business services is worth more than $127 billion. And the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) predicts that by 2025 the U.S. drone industry will create more than 100,000 jobs and add $82 billion to the economy.

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A variant of the WannaCry ransomware that emerged Monday has been able to infect some of the computers patched after the original malware struck last week, according to a top cyber official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The latest WikiLeaks release of CIA malware documentation was overshadowed by the WannaCry ransomware attack sweeping across the world on Friday.

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Thousands of organizations from around the world were caught off guard by the WannaCry ransomware attack launched Friday. As this rapidly spreading threat evolves, more cybercriminals are likely to attempt to profit from this and similar vulnerabilities.

Blink and you’ll miss it, but Apple has become the world’s biggest wearable devices company and its Apple Watch is already in use in a variety of different enterprise implementations, even before it becomes truly smart.

The cruel reality of a global ransomware attack that crippled computer systems in 150 countries on Friday is this: Attackers took advantage of under-prepared computer users and their organizations.

“Great designers produce pleasurable experiences.”

So wrote Don Norman, the director of UC San Diego's Design Lab, in his book, The Design of Everyday Things. Norman’s observation can be seen in most revolutionary products. Take the iPhone: One of the key reasons it succeeded was the removal of the physical keyboard. Steve Jobs loved the idea and created an object of desire that transformed society.

Don Norman’s observations led him to the assessment that there are three levels of... Читать дальше...

Reliable connection with advanced 2.4ghz wireless. Features a working distance of up to 15m, sleep mode, a comfortable ergonomic design, and three-gear DPI adjustment: 1000/1500/2000DPI, to quickly change speed in your games with one key.

There are a lot of reasons why systems slow down.

Some process might be bogging down the CPU, you may be seeing a lot of disk contention, or maybe memory is in high demand and a lot of swapping is going on. Then again, the system may be slowed down because of network bandwidth contention.

Like a busy door with too many people wanting to enter and exit at the same time, a system's network connection can represent a serious limiting factor in how well it performs. That said, if you're looking for good... Читать дальше...

This month, BusinessWeek took a look at how Jet.com is doing in its effort to transform Walmart.com. My conclusion: The biggest obstacle to Walmart.com being successful is Walmart itself.

Hold on to your iPods, because we have some news.

Rather, the developers of the MP3 do -- they have announced that the music format is dead. But just because they said that, is it actually true? Perhaps not.

In IT Blogwatch, we listen to some music. 

So what is going on? Rhett Jones has the news:

If you work at Apple's One Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino as a computer programmer on an H-1B visa, you can can be paid as little as $52,229. That's peanuts in Silicon Valley. Average wages for a programmer in Santa Clara County are more than $93,000 a year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It's during the run-up to Y2k, and this IT pilot fish is responsible for the shop floor data collection systems at a manufacturing company.