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The dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, S. Shankar Sastry, also serves on the board of HCL Technologies. This is a company that delivers IT services, and whose subsidiary, HCL America, was hired by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).

Apple's iPhone isn't always a good pairing for Microsoft's Windows 10 PCs, but you'll be able to use the phone's biometric authentication features to log into PCs.

There were plenty of complaints in the mainstream media and the blogosphere when Apple announced its iPhone 7 ships without an analog headphone jack.

Spreadsheet software that will understand natural-language questions about your data is certainly a cool concept. Microsoft Power BI's cloud service -- its analytics platform, not Excel -- has offered this capability for a while, but having it percolate down to spreadsheets will put it before many more potential users.

An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks.

It may finally be OK to use Facebook while you're at work.

Well, it still may not be OK to post pictures from last night's party or your cat annoyingly waking up your spouse, but you may be using it to connect with your project team or your boss while she's on the road.

After spending a few years working on a social network for the enterprise, Facebook will launch Facebook at Work on Oct. 10.

The company has sent out invitations for a launch event in London.

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Wi-Fi communications in vehicles, whether from the factory or in aftermarket devices, will increase from 6.9 million per year in 2015 to 61 million per year in 2020 -- and this will usher in a new era of consumer services and applications, according to a new report from Gartner.

Replacement Galaxy Note7 smartphones are safe, Samsung said in attempting to reassure customers this week after reports that consumers in South Korea, China and the U.S. said the replacement devices were running too hot.

Getting work done faster on the command line is one of the never changing goals of Unix sysadmins. And one way to do this is to find easy ways to reuse commands that you have entered previously – particularly if those commands are complex or tricky to remember. Some of the ways we do this include putting the commands in scripts and turning them into aliases. Another way is to reissue commands that you have entered recently by pulling them from your command history and reusing them with or without changes. Читать дальше...

To protect users from cryptographic attacks that can compromise secure web connections, the popular Firefox browser will block access to HTTPS servers that use weak Diffie-Hellman keys.

Microsoft took the unusual step of combining its Bing and Cortana product teams with Microsoft Research, in a bid to accelerate innovation for both the search engine and the digital assistant.

Artificial intelligence is not just a trending topic or a fad. Major companies like Google (with the new Assistant bot in the Allo messaging app) and now Microsoft are focusing their efforts on automations meant to take most of the legwork out of our daily business productivity chores.

This highly rated splitter from Kinivo takes 5 HDMI inputs from your various devices, and outputs them to one HDMI connection. Ideal for TVs that just don't have that many HDMI inputs. 501BN will automatically switch to the currently active input source if there is only one active input. If there are multiple active inputs, you can simply select using the IR remote or using the selector button on the unit itself. Supports video up to 1080p and 3D as well. The item currently averages 4.5 out of... Читать дальше...

Stolen or weak remote desktop credentials are routinely used to infect point-of-sale systems with malware, but recently they've also become a common distribution method for file-encrypting ransomware.

This week’s big enterprise story is Apple’s new partnership with Deloitte in which the companies are collaborating on new services that put iOS firmly inside the digital transformation of enterprise IT. I spoke with Mike Brinker, Global Digital Leader, Deloitte Digital, who talked a little more about the deal and the impact of this transformation on everyday life:

PCI compliance is Zen-like. It's hard to determine, and even when a letter declares a company PCI-compliant, that declaration can always be retroactively reversed later — such as if you're breached. Yes, when you most need to be able to say that you are PCI compliant is when it's taken away. Isn't life wonderful?

A judge in Texas has fixed for Friday the hearing in a suit filed by four state attorneys general against a decision by the U.S. to transfer, by month end, oversight of some key internet technical functions to a multistakeholder body.

Microsoft wants to bring artificial intelligence to you.

Well, not you specifically. Everyone, in fact. That is the impetus behind its new shakeup, which reorganizes the company with a focus on democratizing A.I. 

Of course, Microsoft has been working on this for a while, with things like Cortana, Skype Translate and Tay. So what makes this news any different?

In IT Blogwatch, we focus on the big picture.

So what is going on? Todd Bishop has the background:

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This IT consultant pilot fish's GPS is designed to connect with a mobile phone using Bluetooth to act as a speaker -- though fish actually uses it for something entirely different.

With more than 9 million sold, the Raspberry Pi is a popular as well as low-cost way to get started hacking hardware. But occasionally, something goes wrong.

The rollout of smart-chip cards and chip reader in-store payment terminals in the U.S. hasn't been easy -- to put it mildly.

The soft whirring was barely audible amid the pounding music and the babble of voices at the Paris motor show on Thursday, but we'll be hearing a whole lot more of it in the years to come.

Computers can already recognize you in an image, but can they see a video or real-world objects and tell exactly what's going on?

Google rebranded and enhanced its productivity suite Thursday with new intelligent capabilities that will help it better compete with Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft made a splash earlier this year when it announced the largest acquisition in its history, signing an agreement to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. But now, Salesforce is trying to convince the European Union to block the deal.