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Smart gun firm wants you to help fund its prototype

Safe Gun Technology turns to crowdsourcing for $50K, wants to retrofit fingerprint technology on an assault-style weapon

Asteroid mining co. launches $1M Kickstarter drive for public space telescope

Planetary Resources now has 30 days to raise $1 million for space telescope

Funding for open source projects is more achievable than it seems

While crowd-funding seems like a tall task, a look at the math and history behind donations for other open source projects makes it seem much more likely.

Lync-Skype integration live now worldwide

Users will be able to communicate via audio calls and IM text chats

How Top CIOs Tackle Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Security

Amazon Web Services integrates with Google, Facebook for easier logins

Developers can integrate web-based sign-in platforms without having to write any server-side code

Hackers exploit Ruby on Rails vulnerability to compromise servers, create botnet

The targeted vulnerability was patched in January, but many servers haven't been updated yet

Smacking SharePoint into shape

Shops often need to add functionality to the core software.

Australia mulls requiring OpenDocument Format compatibility

Australia would follow a number of European countries in mandating support for open standards

Facebook crafts new policies to better combat hate speech

One change requires users to stand by potentially harmful content they post