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How cool would it be if you could just pull into your garage and park over a special pad and a recharge your electric car for your morning commute?

Bill Gates thinks new laws are needed to sort out the encryption conflict going on between law enforcement and tech companies.

World’s coolest concept cars

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High-tech wizardry leads the way in the concept car world this year. All manner of wildly-shaped electric cars and in BMW’s case at least an augmented reality vehicle. Many concept cars of course, remain just that -- a concept, but some do make it off the drawing board into real life. Take a look.

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Slow-loading Web pages are surely one of the top frustrations on the Internet today, but new technology from MIT and Harvard promises to change all that. Announced on Wednesday, Polaris is a framework that determines how to sequence the downloading of a page's objects for faster load times overall.

You may have read recently that a Google self-driving car operating autonomously was being blamed for a collision with a bus on a busy road in Mountain View, Calif. Now the Associated Press has posted a video of the accident on YouTube, taken from various angles by cameras inside of the bus.

Japan's Mizuho Bank is considering using blockchain technology to speed the cross-border transfer of financial instruments.

The KeRanger file-encrypting ransomware program for Mac OS X contains crypto flaws that could allow users to recover their files without paying cybercriminals.

Qualcomm has been established in mobile devices for some time now, but it's still trying to jumpstart the market for its chips in servers. So in an effort to exploit advanced features on its server chips and appeal to as many developers as possible, Qualcomm is working with Red Hat to port a version of the Enterprise Linux Server for ARM Development Preview.

A year after wireless mover-and-shaker Aruba was acquired by HP in a $3 billion deal, President and CEO Dominic Orr said that, if anything, the company was more in control of its own destiny than ever.

Are you feeling the effects of collaboration overload?

If you are, you’re not alone. As collaboration becomes a strategic initiative for businesses looking to increase productivity and cross-functional capability within the workforce, there's a much greater risk that your best employees are going to burn out.

According to a recent Harvard Business Review report that gauged responses from more than 300 organizations, many times the proportion of time workers spend in meetings, responding... Читать дальше...

If you work in the tech industry, you’re probably tired of hearing about the “skills gap.” It’s the term for a recent hiring conundrum where the need for STEM workers has increased faster than students can graduate with the appropriate degrees. As a result, a number of programs have popped up that are aimed at training qualified individuals quickly and for less money than a traditional degree program.

In the legal arena, Microsoft is going after Comcast in order to unmask the person behind an infringing IP address which activated thousands of Microsoft product keys stolen from Microsoft’s supply chain.

The slow death of the password continues. Microsoft's following in the footsteps of Google’s Chrome OS with a handy-dandy new Windows 10 feature that eliminates the need to manually log in to your PC.

Juniper Networks has allied with Chinese IT stalwart Lenovo to build converged, hyperconverged, and hyperscale data center infrastructure products for the enterprise and webscale markets.

Hyper-converged infrastructure in the data center has been all the rage over the past few years. In the data center, hyper-convergence is a system with tightly integrated compute, storage, network and virtualization technology. Its main value proposition is to simplify the architecture of the data center and enables it to be controlled through software. Despite the strong value proposition of hyper-convergence, the technology has remained focused on the data center with little applicability to the branch. Читать дальше...

Tracking Internet of Things solutions already implemented, including their vulnerabilities, is among the recommendations made in newly published advice from AT&T.

It’s that time of year again: Pi Day!

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Pi enthusiasts around the world wait each year for March 14 to celebrate the mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Check out our tried and true tips for celebrating Pi Day, and be sure to check out our past year’s coverage for even more ideas.

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Microsoft has fixed 39 vulnerabilities in multiple Windows components, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office and .NET Framework, many of which allow for remote code execution.

Facebook's open networking technology is making inroads into the data center establishment, with global giant Equinix adopting the company's Wedge switch design and an open-source architecture in some of its facilities.

Apple's feud with the U.S. Department of Justice over unlocking a passcode-protected iPhone has not altered the public perception of the company, YouGov BrandIndex, a brand quality measurement firm, said today.

Machine learning is an obvious complement to a cloud service that also handles big data. Often the major reason to collect massive amounts of observables is to predict other values of interest to the business. For example, one of the reasons to collect massive numbers of anonymized credit card transactions is to predict whether a new transaction is valid or fraudulent with some likelihood.

Hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) makers are about to wow the storage market again.

The Indian government has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging that the U.S. is breaking trade rules with special fees and changes to the 65,000 H-1B cap.

Coming from all directions

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A security expert looking at different kinds of Internet attacks coming from different countries begins to see patterns emerging. "All kinds of attacks come from all over the world," says Ben Johnson, chief security strategist and co-founder of Carbon Black. But "particular attacks are more common in particular places (or are at least more overt), and there are reasons to that. Often it fits into the capabilities of the population, the story that the attacker is trying to build... Читать дальше...

Big bucks

If you’re not quite doctor or lawyer material, but want to make a killing, then you could do a lot worse than get a tech job. Which kind? That’s what online jobs and recruiting marketplace Glassdoor reveals in a new survey of the highest paying jobs in America. We’ve filtered out the non-tech jobs like physician ($180,000 median base salary) and lawyer ($144,500 median base salary), which are Nos. 1 and 2, and go from there (though really, what isn’t a tech job these days?) Anyway, you... Читать дальше...