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SAN FRANCISCO - Google had several big tech and service announcements at this week's second annual Google Cloud Next conference here. But the company is also leveraging a surprising resource to win enterprise customers - people.

Because the fossil fuel industry is quickly losing public support amid reports of global warming, the industry must embrace clean energy in a more substantial way, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell said this week.

Quick quiz -- how many of you have not experienced a phishing attack on your organization in the last month? 

Google is offering its customers a taste of its cloud for free, without a time-limited trial. The company quietly launched a new “Always Free” tier on Thursday that lets people use small amounts of its public cloud services without charge, beyond the company’s limited-time trial.

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Linux has a bad rap as a daily driver – the programs aren’t written to run on Linux, it’s tricky to install stuff, and so on. But it might surprise people who think along those lines to learn that plenty of the distributions out there are actually quite simple to use. Here’s our latest appreciation of the desktop Linux landscape.

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Apple’s plans for digital health are profound. As it pursues them, it is making huge investments in original research, data analysis, patient records, and sensor development. It works with others, including IBM, to develop health care solutions for the elderly and many other health care verticals. And it wants to promote apps that work.

Don't you just hate it when you lose something in orbit around the moon?

The revelation through Wikileaks that the CIA has explored hacking vehicle computer control systems should concern consumers, particularly as more and more cars and trucks roll off assembly lines with autonomous features.

If you really want to find out what happened at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it's best to ask someone who was there. 

It's the 1980s, and this big bank is consolidating its data centers spread across the U.S., according to an IT pilot fish working there.

The war for IT talent in 2017 is becoming even more competitive - and even more expensive. The demand for talent certainly isn't slowing down, and companies are offering hefty compensation packages to try and fill open roles.

The phrase "Never send a boy to do a man's job" often comes to mind when a computer story hits the mainstream news. The idiom refers to neither age nor gender, it simply means, don't send someone unqualified to do a job they will inevitably fail at.

WikiLeaks plans to share details about what it says are CIA hacking tools with the tech companies so that software fixes can be developed.

The international body crafting the 5G standard has approved an accelerated roadmap that could see large-scale trials and deployments in 2019 instead of 2020.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) used campaign funds last year to pay nearly $3,000 for goods and services at a Salt Lake City Apple store, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.

Intel surprised many observers when the company hired outsider Venkata Renduchintala to lead the company's PC, Internet of Things, and Systems Architecture groups.

Microsoft's .NET Core is now making its way to Raspberry Pi developer boards, and an official .NET 2.0 Core is coming from the software company later this year.

Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if their computer's low-level system firmware has been modified and contains unauthorized code.

In the Google ecosystem, there’s only a small amount of overhead.

Google Docs loads quickly, and it’s a click away from Gmail. When you need a file, it’s easy to grab one on Google Drive. For business users, this has proved to be an efficient workflow suite. I use it on a daily basis, and the one thing that always impresses me is how quickly and efficiently it all works.

Now, Google is releasing a powerful new app called Hangouts Chat, which is similar to Slack, Convo, and Microsoft Teams (which debuts next week). Читать дальше...

Google is getting ready to put its smart whiteboard on sale. The company announced Thursday that the Jamboard, its big touchscreen that’s designed to serve as a digital collaboration space for business users, will be available in May.