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With Stitch Fix, users don't go shopping for their clothes. Professional stylists do the job for them and the personal shopping service ships the new clothes to their door.

The Seagate Backup Plus portable drive offers the mobility of a portable drive with the high capacity of a desktop drive. With this 29% off deal you get a staggering 4TB physical storage + 200GB cloud storage for just $127 (list price $179.99). The unit averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 7,500 people (read reviews).  

Online translators are getting better, but there's still room for improvement. Researchers are now contributing new artificial intelligence techniques that could help accurately build full sentences.

The 3D printing market, which has grown by as much as 30% year-over-year in the past, is now set to triple in revenue over the next four years, according to a new report.

Hold Security made quite a splash in the security world on Wednesday when it claimed to have recovered 272 million stolen email credentials from a much larger trove, but on Friday the email provider most strongly affected called the report an effort to create media hype.

Oracle’s legal fight with Google over its use of Java in Android goes to a jury trial for the second time next week, and the stakes are even higher than when the two sides met in court four years ago.

Lenovo has fixed a vulnerability in its Lenovo Solution Center support tool that could allow attackers to execute code with system privileges and take over computers.

By now we're all well aware of what makes a bad password … it's us.

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The Cambridge SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Next Generation Ultra Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 5,000 people on Amazon (read reviews).  It's regular list price is $99.99, but with the current 72% discount you can get it for just $27.99. The OontZ Angle 3 connects effortlessly to your device via bluetooth. It is designed to be loud and clear, with rich bass delivered through their proprietary passive subwoofer design. IPX5 water resistance makes the unit splashproof... Читать дальше...

The impact of mobile on healthcare is among the most acceptable elements of the digital transformation of everything that is taking place right before our eyes, and the latest news from IBM is that iPads and iPhones will become essential tools for eye surgeons, I spoke with the company to find out more.

A vulnerability in an Android component shipped with phones that use Qualcomm chips puts users' text messages and call history at risk of theft.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into seven smartphone companies on charges of patent infringement, which could lead to a ban on the sale of certain phones imported and sold by these vendors in the country.

The accounting software industry is, contrary to what you might think, a pretty interesting place. Characterized by three large vendors that hold the lion's share of the market in their respective geographies, until recently it has been a fairly sedentary place with Intuit (U.S.), Sage (U.K.) and MYOB (Australasia) happy to organically grow their businesses. That all changed around 10 years ago when Xero, a New Zealand-based startup, came on the scene and started taking well-aimed kicks at the three sleeping bears. Читать дальше...

Kohl's and Apple's retail loyalty deal, announced on Wednesday (May 4), is a key step forward in mobile payment. Even though loyalty and CRM are essential kinds of apps to integrate into mobile payments, that's not why it's such an important step. The cool part here is Kohl's integration, which makes it just about effortless for the shopper. Or does it?

Google and Honeywell have signed a patent cross-license agreement that resolves a long-standing patent dispute over thermostats made by Nest Labs, the home automation startup the Internet giant acquired.

App developers now have an easier way to sell their wares to businesses running Windows 10.

Happy Mother's Day, Tech Moms!

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To help celebrate Mother’s Day, we asked some successful and hard-charging entrepreneurs, who also happen to be moms, to share their insights into managing the many rigors of creating a startup company, all while juggling the daily challenges of parenting. They share how their work lives and home lives sometimes have balance – and sometimes not – and why a strong support network is sacred, and perfection is overrated.

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New-fangled ride-share app Lyft and old-timey carmaker GM have something huge in the works, we're told. The pair are set to test a load of autonomous electric taxicabs, and do it by May 2017.

Traveling with technology

While business trips are a necessary evil for many, having the right tech tools to go with your laptop or tablet can make even the most grueling trip a little more bearable. Thanks to the cloud, the software problem has mostly been solved. But that’s put more demands than ever on your hardware. The following collection of tech tools should help take the trepidation out of your travel plans.

It's a Sunday afternoon in the 1990s, and this contract support pilot fish is enjoying the day at a theme park with his family when his pager goes off.

It’s undeniable that businesses are dealing with a massive explosion in data. IDC projects that the total amount of data on our planet will grow from 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 to 44 zettabytes by 2020, an increase of an order of magnitude in just seven years. Business has an unprecedented opportunity to harness this information to create profitable opportunities, but the unrelenting pressure of storing and managing all of this data is overwhelming IT departments around the globe.

Apple has stepped up its efforts to target enterprise customers through a new partnership with SAP.

Samsung's Artik 10 developer board will compete with the Raspberry Pi 3, but not on price.

The White House is doing a lot more thinking about the arrival of automated decision-making -- super-intelligent or otherwise.  

The next time you want to complain about slow Wi-Fi, think about saving your vitriol for wires instead.