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Mark Zuckerberg is using Facebook for the reason he created it -- to share ideas and opinions.

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Dr. Darlene Solomon is chief technology officer for Agilent Technologies, advancing chemical and biological measurements in the life sciences, diagnostics and applied markets. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Stanford and a Ph.D. from MIT, she joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where she held a variety of research and management positions before joining Agilent when it was spun off from HP in 1999.

Virtual assistants are going to make our lives much easier. Someday, they will be able to book tickets, order stuff on Amazon, and even arrange meetings with the entire office.

Walmart jumped out Thursday with a natively built in-store mobile payment technology that works with any iOS or Android phone and any major credit or debit card.

SAP needs to do a better job of convincing customers that adopting its Hana in-memory computing platform is worth the investment, according to the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

Due for release in the second half of 2016, Windows Server 2016 is a major reworking of the Windows Server platform, with a refactored core that will scale from the minimalist, microservice- and cloud-focused Nano Server to the familiar graphical user experience. Windows Server 2016 is perhaps best thought of as Microsoft delivering its Azure cloud platform to on-premises installations. The latest preview, Windows Server 2016 TP4 (Technical Preview 4), adds a range of new Azure-like features... Читать дальше...

An international survey performed by an online community of engineers found that  only 35% of U.S. consumers want a driverless vehicle.

Let me just say something right off the bat: I really hate mobile device rankings.

The C-suite is getting a little more crowded these days. Pull up a chair for the chief data officer, and it might be next to the CISO.

FBI director James Comey on Wednesday called on tech companies providing smartphone encryption tools to voluntarily find ways to turn over to a judge those messages suspected of being terrorist-related.

Legacy technologies still in high demand today

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as the saying goes. While technology continues to evolve and new languages and technologies like Ruby, Hadoop and cloud containers dominate headlines, proven legacy solutions continue to work quietly behind the scenes, powering much of the digital world. Here are five legacy technologies and skills we still rely on in 2015.

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Millions of Web users could be left unable to access websites over the HTTPS protocol if those websites use only digital certificates signed with the SHA-2 hashing algorithm.

Just since Oct. 1, the U.S. has been victimized by a stream of deadly mass shootings — 10 people murdered at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, three gunned down inside a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colo., 14 killed at a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, Calif. And that’s not abnormal. On average, The New York Times reports, every day in 2015 there has been a shooting in which four or more people were killed or wounded.

Apple's iPad needs its own operating system to become, as CEO Tim Cook has said, "the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing," some analysts argued today.

The Facebook app is improving for people with slow connections. Poor bandwidth, high latency, or intermittent availability will no longer be a problem in Zuck’s brave, new, offline world.

Sometimes it's helpful to gain some statistics to paint a picture of just how big a market or sector is. And so it is with some statistics from cloud security vendor SkyHigh that paints a picture of how organizations are using file-sharing solutions like Box and Dropbox. Skyhigh tracks usage data across the 22 million employees working within the 500 or so organizations it sells product to. While not an exhaustive sample, that's big enough to derive a sense of what is going on in the industry.

Baidu has indicated that it could be a serious competitor in the market for self-driving cars by testing a fully autonomous car on a route it said had mixed roads under a variety of environmental conditions.

Walmart is rolling out in its stores its own smartphone-based payment system that uses QR technology rather than near-field communication, or NFC, which is used in the payment systems of Apple and Google.

Microsoft jumped deeper into the enterprise mobile app development space last week with PowerApps, a service that lets ordinary businesspeople build mobile applications that draw on company data.

This pilot fish's programming team is working on a project written in Ada, but for some reason it keeps crashing -- complete with a dump of everything that's in memory.

Several companies have moved quickly to add encryption to their mobile apps after it was discovered they failied to encrypt payment card information in transit, putting users at risk.

The D-Wave 2X quantum computer at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing facility in Silicon Valley is an impressive machine. Engineers from NASA and Google are using it to research a whole new area of computing -- one that's years from commercialization but could revolutionize the way computers solve complex problems.