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Young kids react hilariously to an old Apple II

Young kids today are planted in front of an old Apple II and have no idea what to do

How to fix Firefox on Windows hanging on exit and not restarting

Has Facebook found the silver bullet?

D-Link announces a new router and access point with Facebook login built-in ... sheer genius!

Microsoft reportedly working on a smartwatch of its own

Microsoft is reportedly working on a smartwatch that will be able to measure a user's heart rate

KnowBe4 extends free phishing simulation for NW readers

Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad

Few are talking about In-Q-Tel investment in ThreatGRID

Why do satellites tumble to death?

KnowBe4 offering a free phishing attack simulation

You can test how susceptible your staff are to phishing

Is Amazon scheming up a cloud-based Bitcoin-funded exchange?

Microsoft’s translation app for Skype is seriously impressive

Someday, Skype will enable you to have conversations with people who don't speak your language.

How MIT and Caltech’s coding breakthrough could accelerate mobile network speeds

Stateless data transmission using Random Linear Network Coding promises higher speeds with an elegant mathematical approach to data error correction and redundancy.

Microsoft baffled by fact one of its products keeps getting better

Nadella: ‘It’s brain-like in the sense of its capability to learn.’

Why Apple’s $3 billion Beats deal still doesn’t make any sense

Apple offers three reasons to justify its big-bucks buyout of headphone maker/music streamer Beats. But they don't add up.

Sci-Fi that meets geek criteria … “Mis-Drop”

Apple buys Beats Electronics for $3 billion; Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine to join the company

Hacking Windows XP to get security patches is a really bad idea

Microsoft and security vendors are both warning users not to do it.

Google taps machine learning technology to zap data center electricity costs

Google says it can accurately predict power usage efficiency to 99.6%

Apple’s rumored iWatch to feature a round face

A new analyst report released this week sheds a tad more light on the design of Apple's long-rumored iWatch.

Enterprise Mobility and the Cloud highlight Microsoft TechEd Conference

Microsoft TechEd 2014 will be looked back on as an important point in time for Microsoft

Chambers is giddy about IoT, and other takeaways from Cisco Live 2014

Lifesize Launches New SaaS Video HD Video Conferencing Service

Lifesize Cloud Supports Connectivity for Multiple Devices, Including the Meeting Room

Reviews: D-Link’s Wi-Fi Smart Plug; LaCie’s Fuel wireless storage

Power on/off any device over the cloud and stream multimedia wirelessly to smartphones and tablets

Federal court pulls plug on porn copyright shakedown scam

Judge: ‘lawsuit a quintessential example of Prenda Law’s modus operandi’

HP clarifies views on OpenDaylight, open source

Contrary to comments made seven months ago, company "putting money where mouth is"

CiscoLive 2014: Best Cisco Live Ever!

DARPA: Big data needs Big search, Big analytics

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programs to look at changing search, analytics technology

Money talks, innovation walks: Patent trolls win big in Congress

Software Containers: Used More Frequently than Most Realize

Containers are being used more often to secure applications and create cloud services

A trip down Unix memory lane

Long before the Internet, the web, flat screen monitors, Google, Facebook, languages like Python and Ruby, interactive games, and wireless just about anything, some of us were fascinated by what we could do with large, clunky systems that today look