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NASA has hit a major milestone in its mission to send humans into deep space and travel to Mars.

The government yesterday hinted that it may demand that Apple hand over the iOS source code and the encryption key the Cupertino, Calif. company uses to sign updates if it won't comply with a court order to help authorities unlock an iPhone.

Microsoft is trying to lure users away from Evernote with a new tool that lets people migrate their notes from the startup’s note-taking service.  

AMD has issued a driver update that will allow ultrathin notebooks or 2-in-1 laptops to connect via Thunderbolt 3 to external GPU enclosures using its Radeon graphics cards.

Almost exactly a year ago Salesforce launched an app that brings CRM data into Microsoft's Outlook email software. On Thursday it made a like-minded move with its SalesforceIQ Inbox product for what it calls "relationship intelligence."

Car giant General Motors plans to acquire autonomous vehicle technology vendor Cruise Automation in an effort to accelerate its efforts to develop self-driving capabilities.

It might seem ironic for the leader of the company that blazed the trail for shadow IT to acknowledge that the CIO's role has ratcheted up several notches in importance. Yet in a sign of how, in the words of Marc Andreessen, “software is eating the world” and perhaps irrevocably altering the business landscape, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says that the CEO is working closely with the CIO to architect digital transformations. Eventually, some of those CIOs will become CEOs, he said.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday criticized Apple with the sharpest words yet over the firm's refusal to help authorities unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, calling its legal arguments "corrosive" to American democracy.

A patch for a critical Java flaw released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed, security researchers warn. This makes the vulnerability exploitable again, paving the way for attacks against PCs and servers running the latest versions of Java.

When the FTC on Monday announced a probe into how PCI operates, it threatened to shine a light into how merchants deal with payments security. Even for merchants — who typically express bitter resentment about the paperwork-intensive and labor-expensive PCI process — it's an uncomfortable area to probe. And that is because, despite retail's long-term resistance to PCI, they know that it has sharply improved security.

In Florida Thursday night, Republican presidential candidates took on the H-1B visa program in a way they have never done before. They said the program is being abused, needs reform and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, in particular, seemed to recommend ending it.

Incoming: Apple's new iPhone, strongly-rumored to have a 4-inch screen -- classic iPhone size, but boasting near-flagship specs. The press event date is now official: March 21, and the release date is thought to be before All Fools day.

The new USB-C connection

There's a new USB in town -- the Type-C port. Smaller than the familiar USB Type-A, the USB-C plug uses the latest USB 3.1 specification, which means it's not only faster but reversible, eliminating the frustration of trying to insert a USB plug upside-down. Able to carry up to 100 watts of power (six times the USB 3.0 limit), a USB-C port can deliver up to 10Gbps -- double that of current USB 3.0 devices.

Almost anything can be ordered online and accessed immediately or delivered to your doorstep. Having an item shipped monthly, without the hassle of going online and pulling out one’s credit card over and over, is an even better idea. The automatic subscription renewal business model offers customers a convenient and easy way to shop and promotes brand loyalty.

This critical system is set for replacement in about six months, which makes working on that team a very unattractive proposition, according to a pilot fish in the know.

Apple’s Macs are usually pretty reliable, but when they do go wrong the Apple Diagnostics tool should help you figure out if you have a software or a hardware problem, but you need to know a few things to understand what it says.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has submitted Thursday a plan for ending U.S. oversight of key technical Internet functions in favor of a global multi-stakeholder governance model.

Facing a sinking stock price and some executive walkouts, Twitter is reportedly handing out six-figure bonuses and additional stock to keep some employees from leaving the company.

Mass IT layoffs are often small and unnoticed. They are not on the scale of the Carrier air conditioning plant layoff; its Indianapolis facility, which currently employs 2,000 people, is moving to Mexico.

After announcing in 2014 it would bring an industrial 3D printer to market within two years, HP went mostly silent -- until now.

If 2015 was the year analytics tools became ubiquitous in enterprise software, 2016 is shaping up to do much the same for machine learning.