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Biometric technologies may soon replace cumbersome passwords, but the U.S. National Institute of Technology is looking out to a time when you won't even have to press your finger onto a grimy fingerprint reader to gain entry to a computer.

Mac users of Office who have felt left out in the cold by Microsoft (because the last version, Office 2011 for Mac, was released in October 2010) now have reason to be pleased: The final version of Office 2016 for Mac brings the suite out of the dark ages and into the modern world.

Blackberry has moved further into the mobile device management space by purchasing Good Technology for US$425 million [m].

Auction house Bonhams will put a pristine Apple-1 personal computer on the block later this month, and has pegged the gavel price at between $300,000 and $500,000.

MDX-i, a subsidiary of MainOne, West Africa’s largest data center, is leaning on  Microsoft's Azure to launch a service to help meet the computing infrastructure needs of companies deploying private, public or hybrid clouds from its Tier III Data Center in Lagos.

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Two French ISPs have asked France's highest court to make public a secret government decree defining how French security services can monitor the Internet.

For the past several weeks an intelligence-gathering campaign has been using fake LinkedIn recruiter profiles to map out the professional networks of IT security experts, researchers from F-Secure have discovered.

Invites through the years

About twice a year, the Apple masses eagerly await invitations to special Apple events, where the company introduces new hardware and software.

A former Tesla engineer could spend six years in prison for allegedly accessing his former boss's email account and pilfering employee evaluations, which he shared with other workers.

Magnetic signals can be used to communicate within the human body, a team of scientists recently said.

A 3D printer that layers cookie dough instead of plastic will go on sale in Asia next year and later in the U.S. and Europe pending regulatory approval.

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Microsoft this past spring announced Project Oxford, a set of SDKs and APIs that allow developers to build “intelligent” applications without having to learn machine learning. Using Oxford’s face, speech, and vision APIs, developers can create applications that recognize facial features, analyze images, or perform speech-to-text or text-to-speech translations.

Microsoft is planning to bring its internal tool for running hackathons to the public next year, starting by allowing a few select colleges to test drive it at their own events.

The Ashley Madison breach has been a Christmas-in-August present for spammers and scammers of all kinds, and your company could be the next target.

Apple can’t revolutionize everything every single year, and with next week’s big event covering such maintenance releases as the iPhone 6s, iOS 9, and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, you might conclude there won’t be much to blow you away. Well, maybe so—and maybe not.

Instacart was founded in July 2012 with a new solution to an old problem—how to get groceries delivered fast. But instead of investing millions in infrastructure—forging relationships with distributors, building warehouses, amassing a fleet of trucks and drivers—the startup instead worked with existing resources, partnering with grocery stores and contracting with individual “personal shoppers” to pick up and deliver orders. And when it came to the technology backbone to support the YCombinator-incubated business... Читать дальше...

Enter the dark

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Back in the 1970s, "darknet" wasn't an ominous term: it simply referred to networks that were isolated from the mainstream of ARPANET for security purposes. But as ARPANET became the Internet and then swallowed up nearly all the other computer networks out there, the word came to identify areas that were connected to the Internet but not quite of it, difficult to find if you didn't have a map. Naturally, unsettling content and activity flourished in the shadows. Читать дальше...

Mozilla hopes to have its version of Firefox for iOS devices out by year's end as part of its push to grow its share of mobile traffic.

This October, Michael Fassbender will join Ashton Kutcher among the actors to have played Steve Jobs. Aaron Sorkin's movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography is one of many dramatizations of the life of Apple's co-founder, who died in 2011.

The H-1B visa program sparks debate on many fronts, but age may be at the heart of the discord: The foreign workers who use the visa to come to the U.S. are overwhelmingly young.

A dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government over turning over emails stored in a data center in Ireland comes up for oral arguments in an appeals court in New York on Wednesday.

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption.

Amazon will acquire Elemental Technologies in a bid to enrich the video capabilities of its AWS cloud service, the company announced Thursday.