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Amazon's Echo is hearing you all the time, and that isn't necessarily a good thing. The device can randomly order items you don't want, record conversations, and has raised several privacy concerns.

GoDaddy, one of the world's largest domain registrars and certificate authorities, revoked almost 9,000 SSL certificates this week after it learned that its domain validation system has had a serious bug for the past five months.

Recent concessions by Microsoft in the data its Windows 10 "phones home" to company servers won cautious praise from one critic this week.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency wants to create a massive surveillance database by resurrecting a U.S. telephone records collection program, but some senators questioned what limits he would accept.

I straddle three very different worlds. First of all, I am a technologist living in an academic environment as a professor of computer science at Northwestern University. But I am also a co-founder of Narrative Science, an advanced natural language generation company that is a thriving business. And my work in both of these worlds has lead to a substantial amount of time spent with different government organizations that are considering how and when A.I. should be utilized.

Apple watchers grew quite excited by pre-Christmas 2016 speculation of a link up between Apple and power-like-Wi-Fi developer, Energous.

Microsoft is taking another step toward serving workers who aren't at computers all day, with a new Office 365 service launched Thursday. StaffHub, part of the company's enterprise productivity offering, allows managers to set schedules for deskless workers like retail employees and service technicians.

Shh...listen. Can you hear it? Ah, yes -- there it is: the familiar whooshing sound of breathless rumors and forceful leakage (seriously, shouldn't we get a doctor to look at that?). Funny how that always seems to fill the air this time of year, isn't it?

The Wireless Desktop 900 keyboard from Microsoft has quiet-touch keys and customizable buttons for access to the Windows features you use most. The full-size ambidextrous mouse provides comfortable, precise navigation. The Wireless Desktop 900 also includes Advanced Encryption Standard to help protect your information by encrypting your keystrokes. Both the keyboard and the mouse have an average battery life of 2-years. The typical list price of $50 has been reduced to $28.28, making this a good... Читать дальше...

Jan. 12, 9:26 AM: I'm heading off to Kissimmee, Florida for the RStudio Conference. From Hadley Wickham's opening keynote today on Data Science in the Tidyverse through sessions on HTML widgets, general programming and more, I hope to have plenty of news, tips & tricks to share. I'll be updating this blog throughout the conference, I hope you'll come back to see the latest!

The smartphone game sometimes seems like a race to introduce the most innovative features, but is there a limit?

There are many companies vying to build the industrial internet of things, but the systems involved are so complex that those vendors also need to cooperate. A new lab at National Instruments, in Austin, Texas, is bringing some competitors together.

Alphabet has shut down its Titan unit that was exploring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for the delivery of internet services.

DARPA is kicking off a project to create a new way to enable U.S. troops working in remote areas around the world to securely send and receive sensitive information on their devices.

As an increasing number of industries and organizations begin to fully recognize the cybersecurity crisis, they have issued a variety of standards, guidelines and road maps designed to help organizations prevent data breaches. While well-intentioned, the wide variety of sometimes overlapping standards can be quite confusing to the organizations that need them the most. 

President-elect Donald Trump plans to consult "the greatest computer minds” for input on bolstering U.S. hacking defenses, as experts say an overhaul to the country's cybersecurity is badly needed.

A non-volatile memory technology based on carbon nanotubes that's poised for commercialization in 2018 is expected to be more disruptive to enterprise storage, servers and consumer electronics than flash memory, according to a new report from BCC Research.

Hopeful companies show off their devices

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CES is the annual Las Vegas event where tech companies do their best to impress with elaborate booths, presentations by movie stars, parties at high-class night spots and -- well, and occasionally even with the worthiness of their products. However, amid all the glitz and glamour are some smaller companies that are often just as invested in their consumer-based tech devices as Samsung, Panasonic or Dell.

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This IT contractor pilot fish is working on a big bank's data warehouse project, and one manager he keeps bumping into seems familiar.

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Apple's new MacBook Pros have put the brakes on a free-fall of Mac shipments globally, though they haven't provided the significant boost the company was looking for.

In recent months, Facebook has been criticized for its role in the dissemination of news, especially related to the U.S. presidential election. On Wednesday, the company announced a new suite of initiatives aimed at improving its collaboration with journalists and media companies.