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Picking a product of the year is anything but trivial because the products I cover every week range from headphones to laptops to books, cars and more. So, I thought I'd try something different this year and pick six products that each deserve the title and then name a winner that stands out from the rest. This allows me to simplify the task and g...

As if e-commerce companies didn't have enough problems with transacting securely and defending against things like fraud, another avalanche of security problems -- like cryptojacking, the act of illegally mining cryptocurrency on your end servers -- has begun. We've also seen a rise in digital credit card skimming attacks against popular e-commerc...

The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider secur...

American companies spend an enormous amount of money on training. Spending reached more than US$90 billion in 2017, an increase of over 32 percent from 2016, according to Training magazine's annual survey about the kinds of investments companies with 100 or more employees make on training activities, including everything from the salaries of internal training staffers to expenses for travel, facilities and equipment...

In technology parlance, the emotional result of a person's interaction with a website or digital app is called "user experience" or "UX" -- and the success of a business depends on it. Users who have easy, positive experiences with websites and apps likely will be drawn back to the business. On the contrary, websites and apps with poor navigation and slow loading times likely will turn off consumers...

'DNA Printing' in the Cloud, Part 1 In DNA printing, genetic code becomes computer code. This transformation occurs when the chemical bases adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine present in a chemical mix or gene sequence are translated by computer through gel electrophoresis technology into their representative letters: A/T, T/A, C/G, G/C.

Many shoppers would be just fine if they could never set foot in a retail store again. After all, everything is available online: books, groceries, pizza, household necessities, even big-ticket items like mattresses and cars. However, according to the United Nations, 15 percent of people worldwide have a disability that affects their daily lives, and many retailers are unaware that their websites are not always accessible to them...

Generation Z is getting a lot of attention these days, as the cohort is expected to outpace millennials, and comprise 32 percent of the world's 7.7 billion population, according to Bloomberg. This powerful group of consumers was born into a digital world. A much-reported claim is that Generation Z has an attention span of 8 seconds. It may seem ...

The cable TV industry has been changing over the last decade and lately has been penetrating the wireless space. Brands like Xfinity Mobile, Spectrum Mobile and Altice Mobile have emerged. Cable One, a smaller cable television company, has announced its new brand, Sparklight. Could this be its first step toward offering a wireless service? When Ca...

Sometimes working with Linux distros is much like rustling through an old jewelry drawer. Every now and then, you find a diamond hidden among the rhinestones. That is the case with Q4OS.

Women are abused on Twitter every 30 seconds, and minority women are harassed more often, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday Volunteers for Troll Patrol, a crowdsourcing project set up by Amnesty International to process large-scale data about online abuse, sorted through 288,000 tweets sent to 778 woman politicians and j...

Oracle narrowly missed its number last quarter, so it was good to see the company come roaring back with 19 percent non-GAAP EPS growth (i.e., it made a lot of money). More importantly, many analysts have conceded that the company has reached a point in its infrastructure deployment where it can mount a serious challenge to other providers and supply the needed cloud services for its ERP and cloud database businesses.

Short-video social networking platform Firework this week released a collection of shows consisting of 12 episodes that will run just 15 seconds each. The first of these series, "Fireside Chat featuring Molly Tarlov," debuted Tuesday. Three more followed on Wednesday, and another is scheduled for release on Dec. 28 Users can download the episodes v...

AT&T plans to activate its 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities, the company announced Tuesday Under the plan, a select group of users will receive a 5G hot spot that connects to AT&T's 5G+ network, with service starting this Friday.

AT&T plans to activate its 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities, the company announced Tuesday Under the plan, a select group of users will receive a 5G hot spot that connects to AT&T's 5G+ network, with service starting this Friday.

AT&T plans to activate its 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities, the company announced Tuesday Under the plan, a select group of users will receive a 5G hot spot that connects to AT&T's 5G+ network, with service starting this Friday.

The shape of the Genome poemis scattered stars; a twinkling netof orchestrated switchesMolecules drafted through millennia,coagulating endless dreams of water;Chemistry's infinite creative palettesampling light and elementsdandelion suns, beheaded as aristocrats,lion-shorn -- still imagine symbiotic airlifting their lost materials,on round, star-hair wings...

Chinese sellers have been using a number of underhanded techniques to boost their global rankings and profits on Amazon, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Grabbing the high ground on a search results page is critical for any seller trying to rise above the din created by the more than 500 million products offered on Amazon, which is why som...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that leads relatively unskilled individuals to believe their ability is be much higher than is accurate. The individuals might be highly skilled and successful in other areas, but they behave like novices in new areas outside of their skill zones. The bias was observed experimentally for the first time in 1999, by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University.

The reasons behind Apple's fight against Qualcomm seem as poorly founded as President Trump's reasons for wanting a wall. Pretty much everyone who understands walls -- including China, which has the biggest -- knows they don't really work. Unless you can afford to man the thing, people will find ways over or under it. With ever-bigger drones in de...