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What would Facebook be like without co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the helm?

Intel and Microsoft are working on technology allowing you to shout out commands to Cortana or activate a Windows 10 PC from sleep mode without being all that close to it.

It sure looked like Microsoft was putting MS-DOS out to pasture. Now it’s saying that the MS-DOS command prompt cmd will continue to live on.

President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of the cyberattacks that allegedly tried to disrupt this year's election, as his successor Donald Trump casts doubt over Russia's possible involvement. 

Think you’ll be letting a full autonomous car drive you to work in Nevada or California anytime soon? While it is already legal to let the car drive on the highway without direct control of the steering wheel and the brake and gas pedals, you still have to be in the driver’s seat.

The number of ransomware attacks targeting companies increased threefold from January to September, affecting one in every five businesses worldwide.

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia.

Security researchers have confirmed that Visa has no mechanism to prevent attackers from using multiple merchant sites to make unlimited guesses on the values for fields such as CVV2. The potential for real harm from coordinated attacks is huge, but such attacks could also be blockable, now that the flaw has been identified.

The highly rated Chromebook C202 from ASUS features a 180-degree hinge, a spill-resistant keyboard, and a reinforced rubber wrapped frame that meets the daily rigors and intense usage that can happen in and outside the home or classroom. The ASUS Chromebook C202 uses a 360 degree WIFI antenna featuring latest generation 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi which provides strong reception to minimize poor signal connection while you are on-the-go. With a built-in HDMI, USB ports, and a SD card reader, ASUS Chromebook... Читать дальше...

Whether you call it vi or vim, the longstanding Unix editor has a wonderful set of features that continue to make it a versatile and surprisingly powerful tool. Many of those features make it easier for you to get a lot of work done in a small amount of time. In today's post, we're going to look at some of the vi features that facilitate making changes to your text files -- especially repetitive changes.

Campaign in the US has published a hugely interesting behind the scenes article on the untold history of Apple’s iconic ‘Get A Mac’ ads campaign. Based on interviews with ten people involved in the project, the article’s packed with fascinating information you won’t have come across before. Here are just a few items from the extensive collection:

While discrete technology trends often get all the attention in New Year's lists, this coming year will be highlighted by organizations taking a more holistic focus on digital transformation that taps into platform business models, the power of technology combinations, mastery of digital services and leading practices in corporate innovation. There will also be an increasing number of "world-firsts" coming out from the corporate sector as vertical industries refine their mastery of digital business. Читать дальше...

The U.S. Department of Transportation may require airlines to inform passengers before purchasing tickets if they will allow voice calls using wireless devices on board their aircraft, thus hoping to placate customers who could object to having co-passengers chatting away on their phones in an enclosed space.

We all knew Silly Putty was special -- the elastic-y, liquid-y toy is tons of fun to use.

Georgia's secretary of state says the state was hit with an attempted hack of its voter registration database from an IP address linked to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

AMD has called its latest Crimson edition the GPU software update of the year and rightfully so. Called Crimson ReLive, it squeezes more horsepower out of the latest Polaris and older Fury GPUs and makes gaming and VR experiences more compelling.

Google Photos is a great way to store your personal photos and make them available across different devices -- and with the holiday season upon us, the potential for generating lots of photos is at an especially high level. But the service is far more than just a virtual cloud locker.

This company that provides repair services is acquired by a larger outfit, and that means the acquiree's systems are being converted to run in the acquirer's data center, reports an IT consultant pilot fish who's on one of the project teams.

Microsoft today added a new licensing option for Windows Server and SQL Server that extends support by six years, for a total of 16 years of vulnerability patches.

BlackBerry on Thursday unveiled a comprehensive mobile-security platform for a wide variety of Internet of Things devices connected to enterprises.