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PayPal to offer hands-free payment through smartphone app

PayPal's Beacon technology will be rolled out early next year

IT Pros and BYOD Users See Support Much Differently

Printing 3D models in color with paper

Mcor's Iris 3D printer produces highly detailed models in full color using office paper

Unix: Avoiding repetitious work with sed

The only thing wrong with sed is that most of us barely grasp how powerful it is. We use it in pipes to change "this" to "that", but we rarely consider it for the big editing jobs where it could save us considerable time and effort -- especially whe

Seagate to produce 5TB hard drive next year, 20TB by 2020

Like SSDs, hard drives are up against a density wall

In reversal, Microsoft gives snarling developers Win 8.1 RTM to chew on

MSDN and TechNet subscribers were enraged when Microsoft denied them access to the latest Win 8.1 pre-release build

Eight is enough! IT’s biggest frenemies

Microsoft sticks to guns, will unveil refreshed Surface on Sept. 23

On-sale date likely remains Oct. 18, when Windows 8.1 update reaches retail

Harvard, MIT join on artificial intelligence research

Universities awarded $25 million NSF grant to create next-generation AI technologies

Icahn withdrawal clears Dell buyout path

Icahn's withdrawal from an effort to buy out Dell paves the way for CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy the company