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Microsoft readies Vista for retirement

Microsoft to retire Windows Vista on April 11, ending support for troubled OS

Facebook shareholders would have uphill climb ousting Zuckerberg from board

Group files a proposal calling for board chairman to be an independent member

Samsung Galaxy S8: What we know so far

The Galaxy S8 is expected to be released this spring, but leaked information suggests we will see an new design from Samsung.

Oracle settling with ex-worker over alleged fiddling of cloud accounts

The employee said she was terminated from her job for refusing to comply

Zingbox launches IoT protection for business

Cloud service spots it when devices start doing things they shouldn’t

Low-power IoT networks go global with a satellite backbone

Inmarsat and partners are combining LoRaWAN networks on the ground with a satellite mesh in the sky

What’s next for open-source Spark?

A crowd of more than 1,500 gathered Wednesday in Boston to hear about the future for the open-source big data engine

US idea to collect travelers’ passwords alarms privacy experts

The Department of Homeland Security is considering asking foreign travelers to give their social-media passwords

Rackspace is cutting 6% of its workforce

Cuts come about 3 months after the managed hosting and cloud provider went private

In the Labs: Connected vehicles in Ohio, artificial intelligence with UMass, Nortthwestern

Smarter cars and data scientists should result

After Ryzen, AMD has no immediate plan to purge its other PC chips

AMD is repackaging its existing chips, from FX to Sempron, for mid-to low-end PCs

Gartner: Algorithm-based technology patents are raging

Gartner says by 2020 there could be nearly half a million patent applications mentioning "algorithm"

Microsoft launches new Azure intellectual property protections

Customers get improved indemnity for open source use and possible patent transfer

Intel repeats Obama-era pledge to invest billions in a new factory

In a meeting with Trump, Intel's CEO again says the company will invest billions to make Fab 42 and create jobs

What the FCC chair’s actions tell us about net neutrality

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai moved quickly to rollback as much of the former chairman’s work

Here’s how Evernote moved 3 petabytes of data to Google’s cloud

70 days, 5 billion notes, 12 billion files, and a whole lot of engineering work

NASA has a shadow IT problem

NASA OIG found 28 unauthorized cloud services operating in the space agency

Hard-to-detect fileless attacks target banks, other organizations

The attacks used Windows utilities and open-source tools instead of easily detectable malware programs

HPE’s Mesosphere reseller agreement heats up container management market

Mesosphere, Kubernetes and Docker Swarm are all gaining tractions as more enterprises use containers

Geekiest alarm clock ever?

Kansas City rolls out online map using traffic, parking data from sensors

In demo, Alexa tells which buses in town are running late

Microsoft plugs continuous delivery into Visual Studio, Azure

The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio extension sets up an automated build, test, and release pipeline

Google Cloud Search helps enterprise users find data quickly

Google's new service will show G Suite users information they need when they need it

Samsung Galaxy S7 hardware will come to the DragonBoard 820c computer

The DragonBoard 820c computer, which has the Snapdragon 820 chip, could be available soon

BlackBerry offers secure mobile communications platform for developers

New line of business offers text, voice, video and file-sharing developer kit

Trump reviews right of H-1B spouses to work

The Obama administration rule was popular with H-1B workers, but faced a legal challenge from group representing IT workers

Mac malware, possibly made in Iran, targets US defense industry

The malware has also been found targeting a human rights activist

Toyota funds AI research to build autonomous cars

Toyota will provide $50 million to open research centers at two universities

Democratic senators push to save net neutrality rules under Trump

Senators and digital rights groups promise to fight any attempt to roll back the regulations

Irish court hears case challenging transatlantic data transfers

After Safe Harbor, Ireland's privacy watchdog wants the Court of Justice of the EU to outlaw another data transfer mechanism

Microsoft’s custom voice recognition service hits public beta

The service lets developers tailor cloud voice recognition for specific scenarios

Twitter fights back, again, against online trolls

Company adds features to try to nix abusive users and stop harassment

IBM and Ericsson tout 5G array advance for IoT, virtual reality

IBM and Ericsson said the end result of a two-year collaboration is a silicon-based 5G millimeterWave (mmWave) phased array circuit

Polish banks on alert after mystery malware found on computers

The source of infection might have been a Polish government agency's website

Early version of Windows 10 Cloud leaked

Despite its early stage, testers say Windows Cloud 10 lives up to rumors

Emoji and hashtag creators scoff at 17th Century pretenders

Tech stance against immigration ban aims to protect employees

Nearly 100 tech companies oppose President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration

Trump’s ban becomes an H-1B fight

It's not the number of H-1B visa holders from banned countries that is driving this challenge

5G starts with chips like IBM and Ericsson’s silicon antenna

The thin, integrated 28GHz module should bring commercial networks closer to reality

Criminals release fewer new types of malware last year, double down on ransomware

Cybercriminals are raking in the money from their ransomware attacks

Cisco faces a tougher collaboration rival in updated Prysm

The Prysm Visual Workplace can now run on many third-party displays

Dozens of iOS apps fail to secure users’ data, researcher says

The developers have misconfigured the apps to accept invalid TLS certificates, says the maker of a tool to detect app vulnerabilities

Juniper founder, CTO Sindhu cuts role to focus on startup

Juniper’s Pradeep Sindhu says he will reduce his role at the company to focus on developing technology for a startup Fungible.

US House approves new privacy protections for email and the cloud

The Email Privacy Act would amend a 31-year-old data privacy law

Samsung scraps a Raspberry Pi 3 competitor, shrinks Artik line

Samsung has discontinued Artik 10 developer boards and asks buyers to move over to Artik 7 boards

You’ll see right through this iPhone 8 concept design

Release of iPhone 8 with transparent screen is highly unlikely

You can now make smart gadgets and IoT devices that use Bluetooth 5

Bluetooth 5 is coming to mobile devices very soon, but it has already reached developer boards designed to make gadgets and IoT devices

Hacker takes out dark web hosting service using well-known exploit

Freedom Hosting II allegedly was hosting child pornography sites, according to hacker

What’s keeping enterprises from using G Suite?

Despite Google's big business push, its productivity suite has an uphill battle against Office

One-third of iPhones are the Plus model

The big iPhone has its appeal and is taking a chunk out of the tablet market