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The RAVPower 16750mAh External Battery Power Bank has a list price of $114.99, but with the current 74% discount you can save $85 and buy it now via Amazon for just $29.99.

Ford announced it is using a new light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system that will enable a Fusion Hybrid autonomous sedan to drive in complete darkness.

Since the dawn of the information age (a.k.a.: the early 1990’s), data management professionals have waged an eternal battle to justify the required investment in people, processes, and technology to deliver high-quality, trusted, and secure data to their organizations. Time and again, spanning these decades, our data champions struggle to build business cases to illustrate how bad data impacts productivity, profitability, growth, customer loyalty, and employee morale, and can introduce all kinds of risk to the business and IT. Читать дальше...

For years anyone interested in learning the version of Flash installed in their web browser has been directed to this Adobe page: adobe.com/software/flash/about/.

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which is intended to safeguard the privacy of European Union citizens when their personal information is exported to the U.S. for processing.

SoftBank's Pepper robot may still be the better-known contender, but a new humanoid device from Hitachi aims to be the in-store sales rep of the future.

Unix command line users around the world rejoiced when Microsoft announced recently it would be bringing the popular Bash shell to Windows 10 with a forthcoming update. Last Wednesday, the company released a beta build of its operating system that finally had support for the new functionality.

Microsoft and University of Washington (UW) researchers have demonstrated the ability to use synthetic DNA as a form of archival storage for data.

Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals.

Even though Microsoft retired Windows XP two years ago, an estimated 181 million PCs around the world ran the crippled operating system last month, according to data from a web metrics vendor.

For the better part of a decade now, the traditional interface for hard drives has been Serial ATA (SATA). With the advent of the solid state drive (SSD), new interfaces have come into play designed to speed up throughput, because the SATA interface has rapidly become the bottleneck in drive speed.

Talk of blockchain technology is everywhere, it seems -- but what is it, and what does it do?

The next Apple Watch won’t be much different to the current model. That’s the conclusion of our old “friend” Ming-Chi Kuo, who’s predicting Apple will follow the iPhone playbook, with a warmed-over version every two years.

The $399.99 list price on the Garmin's fenix 2 GPS Watch is currently discounted by a staggering $200. At 63% off, you can pick this one up on Amazon for $149.99. The fenix 2 currently averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon by over 410 people (see reviews).

Microsoft last week promoted Windows 10's November 2015 upgrade to the Current Branch for Business release track, the first time since the operating system's debut it has approved a build for corporate customers.

Victims of Petya ransomware have experienced a lock screen warning that their hard drive was encrypted with a military grade encryption algorithm and the only way to unlock it was to cough up the bitcoins to purchase a decryption key. But hey, that’s no longer true as the encryption has been defeated and a password generator has been developed so victims can decrypt their hard drives for free.

Website hosting platform Wordpress.com will automatically enable HTTPS for all the custom domain names that its users have associated with their websites.

Tuesday marks the end of support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and that means companies relying on it are just about out of time. There will be no more updates from Microsoft, so staying with the software could open you up to a host of risks.

Your first job in tech is the first impression you'll make on your career -- the job that will hopefully define your career trajectory. The connections you make in the industry and the colleagues you work with will all be a major part in your future success -- so it's important to remember that just because you're new on the job scene, it doesn't mean you can't be a trailblazer.

Oh, my God! Some BBC reporters got a phishing email with their home addresses within them! Stoke the fearfest. Then watch as other Chicken Littles join in and proclaim that this “new” way of delivering ransomware is endangering us all.

Facebook is expected to announce chatbots, among other things, at its annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco this week, in pursuit of its continuing goal of luring back younger users.

Burberry last week said that it was the first brand to use Snapchat's QR Snapcode feature for in-store smartphone viewing. But as much as any innovation in-store is to be encouraged, it seems a shame to waste the ability to show shoppers any imagery or video you want on commercials. The buzzword "customer-centric" is popular these days, which leads one to ask: Is that what your customers would vote to watch? Will that make them want to try this again in a week?

Our free special report shows current salaries for dozens of tech titles, plus details about IT pros' top concerns, the state of the job market and the hottest skills today.

BlackBerry continues to fail, admits CEO Chen. Sales in the first three months were awful, and he’s not backing down from his threat to quit the phone business.

Buildings were evacuated at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Friday afternoon after a threat was made against the company.