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A robotic arm that works on the outside of the International Space Station got a hand today from two astronauts.

Want some help figuring out what to do tonight or this weekend?

Maybe you should turn to someone, or something, that knows a lot about you, like who you hang out with, what you like to do, where you live and where you go.

Facebook executives are hoping that's exactly what you'll want to do.

The social networking company is testing an events service designed to help users find things to do around their location.

Facebook said the new Event service is available only on the iPhone. Читать дальше...

Google is considering banning certificates signed with the SHA-1 cryptographic function in Google Chrome starting Jul. 1. This follows similar announcements from Mozilla and Microsoft over the past two months.

Building a popular messaging app is a tough business, and Talko is getting out of it. The collaboration and voice chat app company announced Monday that it has been sold to Microsoft, which will be rolling its technology and team members into Skype. 

The data center is transforming -- modernizing to meet business demand as technologies such as software-defined architecture, cloud and virtualization take hold. This modernization is also being driven by CIOs and IT executives taking a hard look at their computing needs and asking whether they want to own and/or operate data centers any longer, industry experts say.

It would be easy to dismiss the term "digital transformation" as just the latest in a long line of buzzwords seemingly conceived to cause stomach ulcers in the world's CIOs.

Juniper revised the list of ScreenOS versions that contain a backdoor allowing attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to NetScreen enterprise firewall devices.

A great way for technology pundits to attract attention is to predict the death of a popular technology. Over the past couple of years there have been a slew of columns and blog posts prophesying the demise of the mobile Web at the hands of mobile apps (one pundit sees apps dominating users' attention, another predicts apps will kill off the entire Web)  -- or the demise of mobile apps at the hands of the mobile Web (one company argues that app development rarely pays off, while this journalist... Читать дальше...

Duy-Loan Le started her career at Texas Instruments (TI) as a memory design engineer at the age of 19. Over time, she advanced through IT to lead TI's multibillion-dollar memory product line with joint venture partners in five countries on three continents. One TI digital signal processor (DSP) product she managed was recognized in the 2004 Guinness World Records, and two under her management generated more than $2 billion of revenue. She was elected senior fellow in 2002, the first Asian-American and only woman in TI's 85-year history. Читать дальше...

I’m offering some predictions for Apple’s year ahead, however while 2015 saw much speculation at Apple Watch, iPad Pro and Apple TV the images inside the crystal ball for 2016 appear far more opaque. (Which usually means Apple’s planning something more).

Pirates are getting an early Christmas present as high-quality copies of “40 of the hottest movie titles this year” are being leaked on torrent sites.

Apple has agreed to pay Ericsson royalties on the wireless devices it sells in settlement of a long-standing patent dispute.

GNU/Linux has a massive flaw in Grub, its ubiquitous bootloader. Just by hitting a few keys, you can completely pwn a Linux box—including many embedded devices.

Back in the distant past (about 20 years ago), I became involved with a small manufacturing business that had to make do with the rudimentary business software offerings that existed at the time. Like other small businesses, our options consisted of either adopting the existing monolithic "suites" or using paper-based solutions. There was one other solution, the creation of a fully custom solution using a database offering such as FileMaker. Indeed, a related company had done just that and I can... Читать дальше...

Affordable cities that offer good IT jobs

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Across the U.S., smaller, "off metro" cities are home to talent that's just as accomplished as that of the big guys -- you just need to know where to look. Here, we have put together a list of the 10 best cities for IT -- ones that don't involve sky-high rents and impossible costs of living.

Data on median income and percentage of workforce in technology comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data on population,... Читать дальше...

Ready, set, disrupt!

If an overarching conclusion can be drawn from the results of Computerworld's Forecast survey of 182 IT professionals, it's that 2016 is shaping up to be the year of IT as a change agent.

The discovery of spying code nestled deeply in Juniper's networking equipment, the latest example of a major IT vendor caught up in an damaging cyberattack,  raises many questions.

Automakers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January are expected to push software-defined vehicle technology, offering new human-machine interfaces (HMI), artificial intelligence and automated driving features.

In a strong defense of encryption, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that there can be no trade-off between privacy and national security when it comes to encryption.

You don't hear much about the so-called "Mobilegeddon" anymore. On April 21, Google changed its search engine to prefer sites deemed "mobile-friendly." In the aftermath, reports (including one from Adobe Systems) found that non-mobile-friendly sites suffered a 12% drop in traffic after the change.

It's late May in 1999, and the first new Star Wars movie in years has hit theaters -- hit them so hard, in fact, that the only tickets available locally are for weekday matinees, according to this pilot fish.

Two occupations long associated with innovation -- electrical and electronics engineering -- has stopped growing, according to the U.S. government.