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Microsoft today asked a federal court to invalidate part of a 1986 law that it alleged has been abused by the government when authorities demand the company hand over customers' data, including documents, emails and other information stored in the cloud.

If you're a golfer, or need a gift for one, you may want to take advantage of this 39% off deal. With a regular price of $179.99, you can buy the GolfBuddy VS4 Talking Golf GPS for just $109.99.

We humans may still be licking our wounds following A.I.'s victory at the ancient game of Go, but it turns out we still have something to be proud of: We're doing a lot better than machines are at solving some of the key problems of quantum computing.

Intel is in transition right now: An executive shakeup this month laid the path for new boss Venkata Renduchintala to put his imprint on the company's PC, Internet of Things and software operations.

Microsoft has sued the U.S. government in an attempt to strike down a law allowing judges to gag tech companies when law enforcement agencies want access to their users' data.

Ransomware authors are using the bitcoin blockchain, which serves as the cryptocurrency's public transaction ledger, to deliver decryption keys to victims.

Want a solution like Box, Dropbox or Egnyte but one you can deploy everywhere? Feel passionate about open source and want to leverage a community solution? ownCloud might just have something for you.

Your clothes could one day monitor your fitness levels or boost your smartphone reception thanks to a new technique that uses ultrathin electronic thread to embroider circuits into fabric.

Let's face it: Mobile phone carriers kind of suck.

Some of them are better than others, to be sure. And most have gotten a little less bad over the years -- almost even bordering on the point of "not too terrible," in some cases. But by and large, carriers are right up there with airlines in terms of the levels of warm-and-fuzzy feelings they inspire (not to mention the number of absurd surcharges they tack on at every possible turn).

The smaller-fry prepaid carriers provide a great... Читать дальше...

Solar panel supplier Renogy today announced an Indiegogo campaign to raise development money for a mobile solar generator that can charge in three hours and produce 900 watt-hours of power, enough to run a refrigerator for eight hours.

More than 43,000 people have signed a petition against proposed U.S. legislation that would require tech companies to break into their users' encrypted data when ordered to by a judge.

Amazon is turning the e-reader into a luxury item with the new Kindle Oasis.

The U.S. government is not prepared for a cyberattack on the electrical grid that takes out power over a large area for weeks, or even months.

Japan's Sharp will launch in May a smartphone that's built into a humanoid robot. Or is it a humanoid robot with a built-in smartphone?

Alongside its batch of mandatory security patches released Tuesday, Microsoft also issued an optional update aimed at protecting Windows computers against an attack that could hijack wireless mice to execute malicious commands.

Google yesterday released Chrome 50, and as promised last year, dropped support for Windows XP and Vista, along with three older editions of Apple's OS X.

Onfido is an interesting startup in an arguably boring space.

That space is background checking, the seemingly mundane act of gathering intelligence about a prospective employee in order to determine if they're a good fit for the organization. In a traditional employment situation, where things move at a generally sedate pace, traditional models of background checking, involving manual processes to check criminal records, driving history and sex offender records, among other things, was an acceptable burden. Читать дальше...

Just about every major city wants to be called a smart city, it seems.

Updated: The Android N Developer Preview 2 is here. Google's April update to its Android 7 'beta' shows smooth progress at adding sweet features, and squashing nutty bugs.

It started with an app, TV Maps from indie developer Arno Appenzeller. His app (a Maps client for Apple TV—take a look) made me realize Apple TV could transform education by making it part of daily life.

In the last blog we determined that the world has changed since the early 2000s and that x86 has won the server war, now giving you a chance to have vendors compete for you. But that's only part of the data center -- we still have to look at the rest of the infrastructure.

Take as much time off as you'd like, so long as you get your work done.

Intel's Core chips dominate PCs, but the company isn't giving up on its Pentium and Celeron brands.

Okay, so we knew Apple's iPhone SE, newly unveiled last month and only recently arriving in users' hands, is small. But wow, that 4-in. screen in the land of the iPhone 6S and 6S+ makes the SE seem positively Lilliputian!

Management at this healthcare IT vendor wants to get a better handle on how and why its support people are working overtime, reports a pilot fish who supervises level-2 support engineers.