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Internet of pants? This ultrathin thread could make your clothes part of the IoT

One embroidered antenna transmitted test signals with near-perfect efficiency

More than 43,000 sign petition against U.S. encryption-breaking bill

Senators shouldn't try to 'make encryption illegal,' the petition says

Cyberattack could knock out huge swath of US electric grid, lawmakers say

Government officials think the US is unprepared for an attack that could affect power for weeks

Brave Software’s browser is illegal, newspapers claim

Brave wants to replace websites’ ads with its own more privacy-friendly ads.

Women in Computing group taps Princeton routing, SDN researcher as Athena Lecturer

Princeton engineering prof, computer science chair Jennifer Rexford honored

Sharp’s robot smartphone coming in May for $1,800

It's the world's first robot smartphone

Chrome abandons XP, Vista and older versions of OS X

With release of Chrome 50, Google follows through on last year's promise to drop support of older OSes

DigitalOcean on a stratospheric growth path, scoops up cash

Little-known, but rapidly growing cloud platform DigitalOcean succeeds by making it as simple as possible.

Facebook’s React Native could succeed where other cross-platform frameworks have failed

Familiar JavaScript, 85 percent code reuse and an interface that users will accept make React Native a strong cross-platform alternative.

EU plan to collect, not share, air traveler data is ‘absurd’

By 2018, anyone flying to or from the EU will have their details logged for five years

Mozilla explores radically different browser as Firefox leaks share

It's unclear whether a successor to, or replacement for, Firefox would use Mozilla's Gecko browser engine or switch to Chromium, Chrome's foundation

Barcelona faces the challenge to make its smart city truly smart

'What's in it for me?' is what citizens want elected leaders to answer

Optional Windows update aims to protect Microsoft wireless mice against hijacking

The patch filters wireless mouse input to make sure no rogue keystrokes are passed to computers

5G wireless slowly, carefully taking shape

Experts share visions of 5G wireless at CableLabs InformED Wireless event in NYC

Microsoft is boosting security through hardware in Windows 10 PCs, phones

Starting July 28, the company will require new Windows 10 PCs, tablets, and smartphones to ship with TPM 2.0, a hardware-based security layer

Something strange just happened with North Korea’s Internet

A series of apparently deliberate outages cut the country from the Internet

This big-data startup combines AI with human savvy to help make sense of your data

Machine learning has a 'dirty secret,' one analyst says: It's not good at everything

Cable industry players eye wireless expansion, say analysts

FBI reportedly bought exploit from hackers to access San Bernardino iPhone

The agency is still working through questions about sharing the vulnerability with Apple

IRS: Tax deadline looms, scammers get more frantic

Frauds perpetuate as IRS warned again to get its own security it better order

Grim PC business shows no sign of recovery

IDC and Gartner pin hopes on enterprise refresh to Windows 10 as consumer market collapse continues

Zuckerberg wants the Facebook Messenger platform to replace iOS and Android platforms

Enterprises lag far behind internet companies in mobile customer engagement. Facebook’s Messenger platform could change that.

House panel moves to require warrants for stored data

Email Privacy Act would reform 30-year-old law

Tokyo hotel apologizes in advance of minute-long Internet disruption

And that's just one reason why this hotel overlooking Imperial Palace gets such good online reviews

U.S. government data security is an embarrassment

Hackers are getting into the U.S. computing infrastructure. It’s time to create the Federal Data Commission.

Microsoft, Samba Badlock flaw not critical, but serious enough

Badlock's details do not impress the security community, but users should still deploy the patches in a timely manner

EU privacy regulators: Commission ‘could do better’ on Privacy Shield

Whether the Commission will try remains to be seen

Microsoft will add QR codes to Windows 10 crashes

What’s next, sending a fax with the error report?

Verizon to replace copper with fiber optic Internet in Boston

Carrier will seek cable TV franchise and conduct a smart city traffic trial

U.S. gets 236,000 H-1B petitions, a new record

On-going demand for visas won’t change the well-worn debate

Will companies trust their communications to A.I. chatbots?

Businesses will need to weigh risks, set up best practices for new communication tool

Power Shell is a powerful malware tool

CarbonBlack: Use of the scripting language in malware is on the rise

Techstars IoT Accelator in NYC open for applications

SAP, Verizon and others to mentor startups targeting the Internet of Things

On many IoT projects, IT shops get left behind

Operations people are taking the lead more often

Trade commission will review contentious Cisco-Arista patent dispute

International Trade Commission grants full review of patents in Cisco-Arista patent clash

Weaveworks moves beyond Docker with plug-in for Kubernetes

Are we seeing the first early signs of a shift away from Docker as the cool kid for infrastructure?

Intel to ship thumb-sized Compute Sticks with Skylake chips in late April

Online stores list the new Compute Sticks with Core M3 and M5 chips becoming available around May 6 or 7

Zuckerberg teases Aries and Terragraph projects to expand data networks

The two technologies will be announced on Wednesday at the F8 conference in San Francisco.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg takes shot at Donald Trump

Criticizes 'fearful voices that call for building walls' during F8 keynote

FBI offers $25k reward for Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup painting heist

Campbell’s Soup I collection is valued at approximately $500,000.

Intel on the cheap: Chip maker ships $15 IoT developer board

The Quark Microcontroller Developer Kit D2000 can be used to develop gadgets, wearables, and IoT products

10 Internet of Things companies to watch

Enterprise and consumer IoT companies attracting big investment dollars

How Verizon finds IoT innovation outside its four walls

Verizon Ventures digs into enterprise Internet of Things to fill gaps, build for the future

IRS security is failing taxpayers, senator says

The agency has suffered recent breaches, but Congress shares the blame, Wyden says

Sisense wants to make every user a data scientist

First we had data warehouses, then in-memory, now is in-chip analytics the next big thing?

Startup analyzes behavior to stop malware threats

Open Threat Management platform prioritizes threats, cuts the number of alerts to be analyzed.

The HTC 10 campaigns for the title best smartphone of 2016

Each year HTC competes to build the best smartphone. Often it comes down to which has the best the camera.

Google cloud to OpenStack users: Come on in!

Google sees OpenStack as strategic partner in the cloud. AWS and Azure don't

Seceon’s analytic approach brings security into the digital era

Envisioning a 65-story data center

Architects break free of box-like data center designs to create a tower-shaped, sustainable structure