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Internet of things and Azure headline Microsoft Build

The Build developer conference will spotlight Microsoft's vision and architecture for connected devices and Azure

Expect more Cyanogen phones from Chinese vendors

DataTorrent grabs $15M in funding to help make sense of big data — fast

Google aims to transform European newsrooms

Best Buy to accept Apple Pay, wants to give customers options

NASA exploring half-million dollar fast computing challenge

NASA looking for speed through algorithmic enhancements, not hardware

Massachusetts drafts regulations for car-hailing services like Uber, Lyft

HP buys Aruba and next thing you know Dell is reselling Aerohive WiFi gear

Though Aruba-Dell reconfirmed their commitment to one another in March following HP's Aruba buyout

Traction Watch: Meet The Spring 2015 DEMO Traction Champions

Dell ready to help enterprises move Jive content into Yammer

Should AWS spin out from Amazon?

Now that we know how much AWS makes, is it time for a spin-out?

HP switches fortify campus SDNs

HP rolls out 5400R switch modules, enhanced SDN apps

Can gamification solve enterprises’ engagement problem?

Lightbulbs get smarter with included Wi-Fi and speakers

LED lightbulbs with Wi-Fi extenders and speakers could speed Wi-Fi implementations.

LG out to prove the G3 wasn’t a fluke with new flagship smartphone

Second HTTPS snooping flaw breaks security for thousands of iOS apps

The week cloud computing took over the world

Earnings reports from Amazon and Microsoft conclusively confirm what we should have already known: cloud computing is on a rampage.

Microsoft hints at impending write-off of Nokia acquisition that could total billions

Filing with SEC signals massive charge against earnings coming this quarter as phone sales falter

Police breaks up cybergang that stole over $15 million from banks

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, April 27

Alibaba looks to rural China to popularize its mobile OS

A year later, Microsoft’s Nokia deal isn’t a clear winner

Nepal communications hit by power outage, last-mile issues

Everest avalanche kills privacy-focused Google engineer Dan Fredinburg

Fredinburg had worked on Google's Project Loon, self-driving cars, Everest mapping

Hilarious random startup website generator is pretty damn realistic

Scientists want to blast space debris with a space station-mounted laser

Group plans to deploy a small proof-of-concept experiment on the International Space Station

Why Red Hat is tackling BPM

Red Hat has embedded a business resource planner to help developers build applications to solve complex optimization and scheduling problems.

Teardown of Apple Watch shows sensor could measure blood oxygen levels

Patents show Google Fi was envisioned before the iPhone was released

Patent filings from 2007 reveal that Google anticipated the need for cheap, fast mobile networks before the iPhone and first Android phones were announced.

Here’s what reply to Google Fi invite request looks like

Consumer groups dance on the grave of Comcast-TW deal

With ransomware on the rise, cryptographers take it personally

Does this Marilyn Monroe impersonator violate RSA’s ban on booth babes?

F5’s new CEO Manny Rivelo has big shoes to fill

Living up to John McAdam's legacy as F5 Networks' CEO won't be easy, but Manny Rivelo just might be the man to do it.

Median age at Google is 29, says age discrimination lawsuit

Lawsuit recounts experience of a programmer who tried to get a job at Google

Project Fi’s winners and losers

Winners: frequent international travelers; losers: small wireless companies

Infosys invests in cloud, health monitoring market

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, April 24

Zensors app lets you crowdsource live camera monitoring

Acer Aspire Switch 10 saved by the dock

5 Things we learned about Amazon’s cloud from its first earnings report

AWS collected $1.56 billion in revenue with a $265 million profit this quarter

Microsoft results get a lift from Office 365 and Azure

Amazon says its cloud is ‘a $5 billion business’

Google Fi: From disruptive to meh

DOD wants to rebuild trust with the technology industry

Enterprise software vendors ready Apple Watch apps

RSA: Fight attackers by making software revisions so quickly, exploits could be evaded

Dan Geer: Randomizing code at runtime could leave attackers with no time to find vulnerabilities

FTC complains retail tracking firm didn’t notify customers

RSA 2015: New ways IT security is staying ahead of the threat curve

At RSA, vendors are promoting new methods for preventing data breaches.

House passes second cyberthreat information-sharing bill