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In recent years, the concept of employer brand has taken hold as companies compete for talent. Just as a strong market identity gives a company the capability to charge premium prices — think Apple, American Express and BMW — a strong employer brand assists with recruiting in a competitive job market.

If you’re not fast, you don’t last. That more true today than it’s ever been. A big part of IT’s job these days is to get new applications and services into the hands of customers faster than the competition can. But IT departments struggle to provide the kind of flexible, easy-access resources that are needed for rapid delivery of the new breed of apps that leverage big data, social, cloud-native and mobile technologies. It’s tough to carve out resources for those, while at the same time ensuring... Читать дальше...

A fusion reactor at MIT that has repeatedly set world records over its 23-year lifespan broke one more the day before it was shuttered due to defunding by the federal government.

Attacks that compromise online shops to skim payment card details are increasing and growing in sophistication. The latest technique involves hiding malicious code and stolen data inside legitimate files.

I just finished “reading” the first chapter of the latest Nathaniel Philbrick book. I asked the Amazon Echo speaker a simple question: Can you read the latest book in my Audible library? Alexa obliged without any fanfare, the steady tone of a narrator taking over.

Apple will update its Mac laptops this month by refreshing the MacBook Pro and culling the MacBook Air line, according to numerous online reports.

WikiLeaks is accusing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry of trying to stop the site from publishing stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

The Internet of Things (IoT) will radically change our world in the coming years.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella faced sharp questions from Gartner analysts Tuesday about the privacy-invading implications of its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, and its all-knowing virtual assistant, Cortana.

Photographs of nearly half of all U.S. adults -- 117 million people -- are collected in police facial recognition databases across the country with little regulation over how the networks are searched and used, according to a new study.

A digital mapping company has partnered with a crowdsourcing traffic app maker to help city governments and drivers communicate more efficiently about traffic conditions, including construction delays and accidents.

Great, gratis gaming

It’s increasingly rare to see a new Android game with a price tag, but not all free games are built alike. Some feel like business models disguised as entertainment, or are so overloaded with ads, energy meters, and obnoxious in-app purchase prompts that they’re not worth the hassle. And that doesn’t even consider whether or not the game was even fun to begin with.

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that's the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt.

You'd be forgiven if you were a little suspicious of Google's resolve in the smartphone game. This is, after all, the company that's used a revolving door to partner with every major player/competitor except Apple for each generation of device. This is the company that bought Motorola, strip-mined it for patents and sold the husk to Lenovo.

There are so many different ways to get things done using a Mac and I hope this selection of useful tips will offer most Mac users at least one or two features you may not have encountered before:

The asylum granted to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange by the government of Ecuador is not in question, despite possible differences of opinion between the two on the release of controversial documents by the whistleblowing site.

Ever wish Siri was more intelligent?

Well, it seems Apple's virtual assistant will be moving in that direction with the hiring of Apple's first ever director of A.I. research. So who is this new director? And what does Apple hope to accomplish?

In IT Blogwatch, we ask Siri for the answers.

So who is this famed new director of A.I. research? Michelle Starr has the details:

5G networks will be five times as fast as the quickest LTE technology by using the highest cellular frequencies ever, according to Qualcomm, which provided a glimpse of its next-generation modem plans on Tuesday.

While most of IT is consolidating around the cloud, in some ways the internet of things is moving in the other direction. Vendors are putting more computing power into devices near the edges of networks, like sensor modules and gateways.

This company is working on a project that uses mobile devices and barcodes, but it's hit a snag, reports a programmer/analyst pilot fish on the scene.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Three of Gartner's top 10 technology trends envision significant changes -- and problems -- with data centers.

BI vendor MicroStrategy said today that its Desktop software is now free, adding to the affordable self-service BI landscape that includes Tableau Public, Microsoft Power BI and others. MicroStrategy Desktop 10.5 is available for download at https://www.microstrategy.com/us/desktop.

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