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Mozilla is nearing a production release of a multi-process Firefox, the "largest change we've ever made to Firefox," a company product manager said this week.

Facebook is testing a new feature that appears to take a page from social networking competitor Snapchat, enabling users to be a bit more stealthy.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as the old saying goes, and that's just as true in cybersecurity as it is in health. So believes Cylance, a startup that uses AI to detect and prevent cyberattacks.

The Samsung Level U Pro Wireless Headphones combine Ultra High Quality Audio (UHQA) technology with noise-isolating ear gels to deliver clear, vivid sound. It's designed to comfortably sit around the neck, and is splash and sweat resistant. The headphones can take calls as well. Calls and music are controlled intuitively through smart magnets in the earbuds. The Level U Pro averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 220 customers (read reviews). It's typical list price of $99.99 has been reduced... Читать дальше...

While mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay are growing, they haven't lived up to the hype that surrounded their arrival in 2014.

Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) shut down a Columbus, Ohio, pilot of its CurrentC mobile payment service this week.

With more than 150 million active users each month, uTorrent, which was developed by BitTorrent Inc, is the most popular BitTorrent client around. Although the client wasn’t hacked, the uTorrent forum database was. uTorrent has yet to tweet or blog about the breach, but it did announce “an important security advisory” which warns all forum users to change their passwords immediately.

One of the surprise products of last week's Computex IT show in Taiwan was the Zenbo robot from Asus.

Though it's showing itself to be a good operating system (in line with Windows XP and Windows 7), sometimes a Windows 10 system will start misbehaving to the point where repair is needed. This often takes the form of worsening performance or stability and can originate from damage to or loss or corruption of Windows system files typically found in the C:\Windows folder hierarchy. When that happens, users would be well advised to break out the following routine to help them set things back to rights. Читать дальше...

Intel is providing fewer excuses to miss meetings by bringing support for its Unite technology to iPads, and later, to Chromebooks.

Here's a Facebook hack straight from the pages of the novel 1984: A way to rewrite the record of the past.

Apple yesterday confirmed that it will live-stream the opening keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week.

Come budget time, being the security manager for a financial services company is a great thing. Like any security manager, I have to prepare materials to justify spending company money. But in the financial services sector, upper management tends to be well aware that we have a lot to lose if we’re breached, and customers and auditors continually scrutinize our security practices. Since losing a major deal or failing an audit because of inadequate security is not an option, winning approval for... Читать дальше...

While we wait for Apple to bake GIF creation tools inside Photos, Google’s grabbing attention with the iOS 9 Motion Stills app, which turns Live Photos captured on an iPhone into GIFs or .MOV clips, but there other ways you can make this happen.

BlackBerry has moved ahead with acquisitions and new products as it aims to secure any communications endpoint, including smartphones and cars.

Get ready to start fielding voice calls in Slack. The company announced Tuesday that all users of its popular chat app will be able to ring their teammates with a couple of clicks. 

Tablets were the big thing a few years ago, purportedly soon to displace PCs. It didn't happen, and tablet sales have been dropping for several years. Except for one kind of tablet: the kind with a detachable keyboard, epitomized by Microsoft's Surface Pro. They're the rising star, both for IT organizations and for computer makers. 

We all need a little help sometimes. After all, what are cloud-based, artificially intelligent software agents for?

Yahoo is selling more than 3,000 patents and pending applications that the pioneering Internet company believes could be the most foundational patents related to Web search and advertising.

Apple Siri “helped save” a toddler in Australia, who’d stopped breathing. Her mom yelled at her iPhone to call an ambulance.

It's 1999, and this engineer pilot fish has been dispatched to investigate a flood -- in the upper floors of a building in New York City.

One-fourth of new users of smartwatches and other wearables say their devices failed to meet their expectations, according to a survey by communications technology company Ericsson.

CompTIA, an industry group, said about 96,000 IT jobs were lost last month across all industries, not just the technology sector. That figure includes the impact of the approximately 37,000 telecommunications jobs sidelined by the Verizon strike, which was settled this month. But it was a rough month, by some estimates.

If there's an overriding trend in the world of enterprise software lately, it's democratization, as tools previously reserved for experts are put in the hands of average users. On Tuesday, Salesforce.com climbed on board with new software, training and support services that aim to help more users -- not just professional developers -- build applications for the Salesforce platform.

A national LTE network for U.S. public-safety agencies would also give consumers better mobile service if a startup gets to build a futuristic network-sharing system.