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From PCs to servers, Intel is trying to redesign the way computers operate. We've already seen how PCs are changing, with 2-in-1 hybrids and tiny Compute Sticks, but some of the chip maker's groundbreaking technologies will initially appear in servers.

For the first time since LTE technology hit the mainstream in 2012, the worldwide market for carrier wireless equipment has declined, according to a report released today by IHS Technology.

Arthur C Clark once said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” You see something happen, but how is a total mystery. New data storage technologies have brought a little of this magic into the datacenter and have the potential to completely change how we think about and manage storage.

Scientists with the U.S. Navy are working to develop an augmented reality display for divers' helmets that would enable them to see photos, sonar readings and texts while working under water.

The June batch of Android security patches addresses nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in system drivers for various hardware components from several chipset makers.

The owner of a brand-new Tesla Model X SUV said the car suddenly accelerated at "maximum speed" by itself, jumped a curb and slammed into the side of a shopping mall while his wife was behind the wheel.

Oh goody, just what we need, more devious and undetectable surveillance in the form of an “invisible” backdoor built into computer chip hardware. I’m completely creeped out after reading “A2: Analog Malicious Hardware” (pdf), which won as “best paper” at the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Microsoft has taken a big step toward helping employees stay on track with the launch of a new app called Planner.

Quantum computing's full potential may still be years away, but there are plenty of benefits to be realized right now.

IBM is joining the R Consortium with a "significant investment," the company is scheduled to announce at today's Apache Spark Summit, becoming a top-tier Platinum supporter of the open-source R programming language.

It's bad news for businesses. Hackers have launched large-scale attacks that are capable of bypassing the security protections added by Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a tool whose goal is to stop software exploits.

Canonical is best known for two things. Firstly, the wildly popular Ubuntu open source operating system that is one of the leading OSs for a bunch of different use cases -- desktop, data center, cloud and increasingly the Internet of Things. The second thing Canonical is known for is its founder, Mark Shuttleworth.

A petition launched Friday asks the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to investigate Microsoft's aggressive moves to convince and cajole users into upgrading to Windows 10.

Many of us are addicted to the extent that we get depressed and moody if we go without it. What are we addicted to? The attention-grabbing Internet, that’s what, and keeping our wireless network in good shape is critical to the way we live today, at work and at play.

Is Facebook listening to every word you say? Zuck’s crew says it won’t use your speech to target advertising or reorder your feed, but it’s still unclear what it does use the microphone for. Aside from the obvious, that is. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers tighten their lips, for fear of sinking their privacy.

At just about any technology conference — be it a conference addressing social media, mobility, analytics and big data, cloud computing, security or any other topic — at least one keynoter is sure at some point to emphatically say something along the lines of, “Technology is the easy part; the hard part is politics.” 

Over the weekend hackers managed to access Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as the social media accounts of other celebrities.

Perhaps the biggest surprise in our review of nine multi-factor authentication products is that physical tokens are making a comeback. Many IT managers were hoping that software-based tokens, which are easier to deploy and manage, would make hardware tokens extinct.

Online product reviews are one of the most powerful e-commerce sales tools, and it's in the interest of every major e-tailer to keep them credible. That's why Amazon has gone out of its way many times to track down and try to punish — often via lawsuits — site visitors who post bogus reviews. But late last week, Amazon added a tactic that is new in two very critical ways.

A new company launched Monday by former NASA chief Dan Goldin aims to deliver a major boost to the field of neural computing.

Two firms whose job candidates lost the H-1B visa lottery have filed a lawsuit that seeks to end the current distribution system based on luck.

Intel continues to pump more horsepower into its chips, by releasing a 24-core processor for high-performance computers.

Social networks need to become "walled gardens" again.

The conventional wisdom is that, when it comes to social platforms, open is good and closed is bad.

Facebook used to be slammed as a walled garden. But after Google+ came out in 2011 as a social site with public posts that you could link to and find from ordinary search, Facebook followed suit, and Facebook-as-a-walled-garden was no more. Now Facebook is mostly open (albeit with a flawed real-names policy and proprietary formats like Facebook Instant Articles). Читать дальше...

IT pilot fish returns from a week at a hardware vendor's user conference -- remember those? -- and the junior consultant on the project team has a status update for him.