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It’s all go in solid state world. Pure Storage ups the ante

Solid state has come of age as an enterprise storage approach. And Pure Storage is pushing itself as the #1 independent flash vendor.

Tech expectations for 2036: pizza delivery drones and avatar dating

Another prediction: More robots than humans in 20 years

U.S. to have 200-petaflop supercomputer by early 2018

Dept. of Energy responds to China’s latest, a 124.5-petaflop supercomputer

Apple fixes serious flaw in AirPort wireless routers

The flaw could allow hackers to execute malicious code on affected devices

Tech CEOs rake in the big bucks

Among 61 tech companies, Oracle awarded the biggest CEO pay package last year – twice.

Chinese hacking slows down after public scrutiny and US pressure

Security firm FireEye said it has seen a decline in overall intrusion activity

A blockchain ‘smart contract’ could cost investors millions

By not studying the code implementing a smart contract, investors have exposed themselves to a multimillion-dollar loss

Ticketmaster free tickets website off to rough start

Lawsuit settlement has Ticketmaster customers rushing to check out free vouchers

Under the hood of Cisco’s Tetration Analytics platform

Apache Spark, Kafka, Druid and more are under the covers

Microsoft has had enough of OEM bloatware

Windows 10 will soon have a tool to remove the junk your OEM installed

Docker just made it easier to natively orchestrate containers

Container orchestration is in vogue

The FCC is about to take a big step to superfast 5G networks

The commission will vote on a 5G spectrum proposal in July

IBM leverages machine learning for hyper-local weather

New precision forecasts will help businesses in industries ranging from aviation and agriculture to energy generation and retail better respond to their environment.

DARPA wants to design an army of ultimate automated data scientists

The goal of D3M is to develop algorithms and software to help overcome the data-science expertise gap

Does your smartphone embarrass you?

Software flaws and faulty interactions often cause users ‘computer-assisted embarrassment.’ Developers can prevent that by using contextual usability methods.

How big data is changing the game for backup and recovery

In today's distributed databases, getting a reliable snapshot of all those petabytes isn't easy

Montreal wins Intelligent Community of the Year

Rio de Janeiro’s Knowledge Squares program gains Visionary of Year Award

Apple may finally get clearance for stores in India

India has liberalized rules for foreign companies to set up retail stores

Platform9 is the latest to ease the container deployment woes

It's DockerCon week, which means EVERYONE is positioning for peak Docker cred

Tech pros share advice for new computer science graduates

Intel Management Engine’s security through obscurity should scare the **** out of you

Intel's latest x86 chips contain a top secret control subsystem that you can't audit, control, or disable ... what could possibly go wrong?

The fight over a new Wi-Fi channel is coming to a head

Globalstar says it can open up another Wi-Fi channel, but with some conditions

5 things you should know about password managers

Tools such as Last Pass and Dashlane can save you a lot of headaches

Apple explains why iMessage isn’t coming to Android

Apple’s iPhone 6 faces potential sales ban in China

A local company warned Apple in 2014 that it might sue it over a patent

Is the ‘secret’ chip in Intel CPUs really that dangerous?

There are a lot of ifs in this developer's argument

HPE looks to move data between computers at the speed of light

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shows an optical module that can transfer data at 1.2 terabits per second

Why Google picked its Zurich lab to expand AI and machine learning research

Selecting its Zurich, Switzerland, lab to grow its research wasn’t an opportunistic hiring decision. It was strategic.

Belgian hospitals turn to robots to receive patients

Two Belgian hospitals will each employ a robot receptionist to direct patients to their appointments

Microsoft buys Wand to improve chat capabilities

The startup will be put to work on implementing Microsoft's 'conversations as a platform' push

China claims exascale by 2020, three years before U.S.

Speed is one thing, energy efficiency another

Surveillance reform measure blocked in the wake of Orlando killings

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down the proposed amendment

Samsung’s Joyent buy is a swipe at AWS and Microsoft Azure

Cloud services are a big piece of IoT, and Samsung is buying its own engine to run them

Fed watchdog raises questions about FBI facial recognition accuracy, privacy

GAO says the FBI has access to nearly 411 million photos

ContainerX steps into the limelight with a new container platform for enterprises

It's aimed at IT admins who 'don't want a do-it-yourself project,' the company says

Verizon blames ‘routing’ error for Baltimore 911 outage

HPE shows off a computer intended to emulate the human brain

Researchers are working on a new type of chip that may act as an intelligent co-processor

Microsoft starts clock ticking on Office 2016’s first upgrade

Enterprise Office 365 customers have until October to move off original builds of apps like Word and Excel

Asus challenges the iPad Mini with the less-pricey ZenPad Z8

Asus' ZenPad Z8 tablet is priced at $249.99 and available exclusively through Verizon Wireless

Samsung enters the cloud market

Mega M&A week continues as mobile kingpin scoops up Joyent

Cisco Tetration: The timing is right for Cisco to jump into analytics

With Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform, businesses get complete visibility across the data center, allowing them to be agile and move at digital speed

Senate panel votes to weaken net neutrality rules

The legislation would exempt small ISPs from transparency requirements

Facebook, Google, Twitter sued by father of Paris terror victim

Reynaldo Gonzalez charges the companies with letting their forums be used as tools of the Islamic State group

Hack the hackers: Eavesdrop for intel on emerging threats

Listening to online chatter in hacker forums can give you a jump on juicy vulnerabilities your vendor hasn't fixed

Microsoft’s Project Bletchley will let companies add middleware to blockchains

New "Cryptlets" make it possible to pull cloud information into secure blockchains

Hacker claims credit for DNC breach, posts files online

Security company CrowdStrike still thinks top Russian government hacking groups were involved

Companies pay out billions to fake-CEO email scams

In the U.S., victims have lost $960 million to the schemes over the past three years

Tech culture still pushing out women, study finds

Social dynamics and “culture fit” are a big reason that female engineers leave

Why Apple’s Photos announcement should offend you

Apple’s research secrecy hurts industry and academic research, and it could hurt Apple

Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications

Cisco’s Tetration Analytics full rack appliance tackles critical data center operations such as policy compliance, application forensics.