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Google is succeeding in keeping high-altitude balloons aloft in the stratosphere for more than three months at a time -- a key goal in its ambitious Project Loon program to deliver Internet from the sky.

You don’t know the power...of buying a gadget this holiday season. It can make or break your relationships, with friends at work, with family, or with Aunt Judy from Toledo. Often, it comes down to a decision between two powerful forces (er, devices). I’ve offered some guidance below to help you make the right decision and maybe even earn some extra points with loved ones.

The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.

In an already crowded market, HP Inc. isn't interested in introducing a smartwatch under its own brand. The company, however, sees an untapped opportunity for wearables in businesses.

Aneurysms, which are tiny blood-filled bulges in the wall of a blood vessel, are responsible for nearly 500,000 deaths a year worldwide when they burst before being treated.

A number of healthcare data breaches have made the news of late, particularly involving large insurance companies and data clearinghouses. As the media portrays the situation, our private health information is leaking to the outside world at an alarming rate. Based on BitSight's recently-released Third Annual Industry Benchmark Report, we should not be surprised. Based on the BitSight report, the healthcare industry is near worst in overall security, with only education below them. 

It used to be common for new chief security officers to come in with guns blazing. The security personality stereotype was a machismo type who wanted to be seen as the hero in saving the company’s network from all the villains trying to get in.

If you plan to shop on Black Friday, either in the comfort of your home or out in the crowded stores, you’re probably scouring the web right now for ways to make every minute and dollar count. And if you’re not, you should be.

I am writing this article on the iPad Mini using the Editorial app. This app is connected to my Dropbox account and automatically synchronizes my work. When I come home I can continue editing on my computer where this file will be waiting for me in my Dropbox folder.

In an attempt to streamline remote support, Dell installed a self-signed root certificate and corresponding private key on its customers' computers, apparently without realizing that this exposes users' encrypted communications to potential spying.

Search “mobile zombies” on the web and you’ll find upwards of 25 million hits, a good majority of which are articles, memes and blogs complaining about the continued uprising of the new zombie apocalypse (a generation of humans so attached to the screens of their mobile devices that they barely register a heartbeat). Studies have cropped up over the last few years that delve deeply into the impact of mobile devices on the physical and mental health of individuals who have more of a relationship with their mobile phone than other humans. Читать дальше...

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Mail in El Capitan detects when you receive new information for a contact, so you can update the contact card from inside the email app. It also identifies when new people make contact. You may find contact info in your Contacts application that, when opened, identifies itself as “found in Mail." (You can disable this feature in Contacts>Preferences>General and untick Show contacts found in Mail.)

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Fields in Contacts are quite useful. Launch Contacts Preferences and choose Template. Читать дальше...

Isn’t it wonderful? Now that October is behind us, all our credit card security problems have been solved! But wait — why did I get a call from one of my credit card companies informing me that my account had been compromised? How can that be?

When hiring managers find you on LinkedIn, it’s not by chance.

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Shuttle drivers for some key Silicon Valley companies will have their first paid holiday on Thanksgiving this week, under new terms negotiated by a workers' union.

While most of us cook on a regular basis, not everyone enjoys it—it can feel like just another chore. But often, people who enjoy cooking really enjoy it, whether it’s the methodical process of following a recipe or experimenting to make it even better.

A court in California has declined Oracle's bid to disqualify an expert in its copyright dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android mobile operating system.

Microsoft has blamed a drop in its workforce's gender diversity on the thousands of layoffs it made to restructure its phone hardware business.

The fallout from a serious security mistake made by Dell is widening, as security experts find more issues of concern.

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IT and engineering are two industries that remain stable and growing as the economy continues to recover, according to data from CareerCast. Jobs in IT and engineering are not only in demand, but they're also growing ahead of the national average estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And as technology changes rapidly, new job titles and required skills emerge constantly.

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This business is organized into several different divisions, and that makes competition for IT resources unavoidable, reports a pilot fish on the inside.

Go from beginner to advanced with this in-depth guide, a Computerworld Knowledge Pack.

Every Dell desktop and laptop shipped since August has contained a bogus root certificate, eDellRoot. Not only that, but the cert includes its own private key! It’s like Superfish 2.0... 

New iPhones, new Apple TV, and new iPad Pro. If you happen to love anything and everything “designed in Cupertino, California,” then you have plenty of new Apple gadgets to add to your holiday wish-list in 2015. But for casual gift-giving, the iPad Pro is probably not going to make the most reasonable (or affordable) stocking stuffer.

Technology has drastically changed the way we experience music, whether it’s by helping musicians create stadium-quality sounds in their basements or by giving fans the ability to listen to their favorite music anywhere they go.