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Boeing has announced that, after 16 months of development, it has delivered a "reversible" fuel cell for the U.S. Navy that stores energy from renewable sources and generates zero-emissions electricity.

Microsoft this week made good on a 2014 promise and withheld security updates from users of older versions of the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

Drones are so hot right now. It seems you can’t turn the corner without hearing about them -- Google and Amazon want to use them to deliver packages, they could be used for search-and-rescue operations in the not too distant future, and 300,000 of them have already been registered with the FAA. Most importantly, drones can be used to take some truly epic selfies.

The old adage goes that it's far better to sell another dollar of service to an existing customer than it is to do so to a new customer. Existing customers know your business and your product and hence are an attractive group to look to expand revenue from.

Microsoft yesterday touted new release notes, and a listing of past updates, for Windows 10, saying that it is providing the additional information customers had demanded.

I couldn't help but laugh when I looked at Google News earlier.

Right there, smack in the middle of the Tech section, was a cluster of stories about alleged new elements of upcoming Android phones. The theme was an apparent marquee feature we'll be hearing about with this year's flagship devices -- a display that, in some form or another, remains on so you can always get pertinent info at a glance.

Behold:

Oh, neat: So the Galaxy S7 might deliver the innovation of an always-on smartphone screen? Читать дальше...

In 2009, a team of journalists who were investigating electronic waste purchased a computer in a Ghana market that was found to contain "sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman," wrote Robert McMillan in a story at the time. "Northrop Grumman is not sure how the drive ended up in a Ghana market, but apparently the company had hired an outside vendor to dispose of the PC."

Facebook has withdrawn Free Basics from India, days after the country's telecommunications regulator prohibited the differential pricing of data depending on the content or application that is being accessed.

Cisco Systems patched a critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to take over Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls configured as virtual private network servers by simply sending malformed network packets to them.

Wearables today are overwhelmingly tethered to smartwatches. Qualcomm wants to change that by bringing LTE connectivity to wearables with its new Snapdragon Wear platform.

Low-cost smartphones could be packed with premium features thanks to Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 425, 435 and 625 mobile chips.

Four bipartisan members of Congress introduced legislation this week to preempt a potential patchwork of state and local government laws banning encryption on smartphones.

Amazingly, some Hill dwellers are pro-encryption, and are starting to fight for citizens’ privacy rights. The first step seems to be to stop individual States from enacting their own crazy anti-crypto laws.

When developing mobile enterprise applications, there are two basic options: Plan the process in advance in exquisite detail or listen to user feedback and iterate as you go. The latter approach, by all reports, can speed things up dramatically. But don't attempt it without a strong social media framework in place, experts say.

It's a good time to be in IT. Job seekers have the advantage as employers struggle to hire tech talent in key areas such as cloud computing, mobility, security and data analytics. Companies are raising salaries and piling on the perks -- but not for every IT role.

The world's financial markets got off to such a rough start this year that some enterprises froze plans to upgrade their campus networks.

Network admin pilot fish walks into the office one morning and is immediately accosted by a user who can't get any work done because of a network application that won't launch.

8 more cool tools for devops success

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DevOps has been gaining steam at organizations of all stripes thanks to its ability to bridge the gap between software development and operations -- and to smooth rifts between developers and systems administrators. These two groups have historically butted heads over software development, testing, and deploying the apps into production, but devops aims to save the day.

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Even if it doesn’t plan on porting the service to Android, Apple continues to improve Maps, so I’ve put together this short guide to the service.

Four third-party app stores for Android have apps with a malicious component that seeks root access to devices, according to Trend Micro.

Image recognition has become increasingly critical in applications ranging from smartphones to driverless cars, and on Wednesday UCLA opened up to the public a new algorithm that promises big gains.

Microsoft today announced it is adding another update track -- or in its vocabulary, a new "ring" -- to its Windows 10 preview program for those who want to be on the cutting edge, but just by a sliver.

OK, all you tweeters. You can relax now.

After several days of Twitter users in an uproar over an online report that said the social network was about to change the way its users see their timeline, Twitter laid out its plans.

Twitter will start using an algorithm that reorders how users see the tweets in their timeline. 

Here's what you need to know about Twitter's announcement.

1. A new timeline feature

Mike Jahr, senior engineering manager at Twitter, said in... Читать дальше...