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Areport released Tuesday on the DROWN vulnerability raises concerns about possible attacks that could expose encrypted communications DROWN, which stands for "Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption," is a serious vulnerability that affects HTTPS and other services using SSL version 2, according to the team of security researchers who ...

FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the government has the legal right to gain limited access to the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters and other suspected terrorists Congress and the judicial system can create a mechanism to protect the safety of the American people while p...

Salesforce is opening a can of snakes with its new Health Cloud, which became generally available this week Having worked in the healthcare software industry for many years in the last century, I have mixed feelings about the announcement. While I'm breathing a sigh of relief that an innovative company is taking on healthcare software at last, part...

One of Google's self-driving cars kissed a bus on Valentine's day, marking the first accident in which the one of the company's autonomous vehicles was at least partly at fault Possibly too smart for its own good, the self-driving car was attempting to reenter its previous lane when it contacted a municipal bus....

TheEuropean Commission on Monday released a draft of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which would replace the controversial Safe Harbor provisions that regulated U.S. access to the data of European residents The legal texts aim to finalize the reform of EU data protection rules, which apply to all companies doing business in the region, EC off...

TheRaspberry Pi Foundation on Monday announced the availability of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for US$35, the same price as the previous model It is thesecond major upgrade to the board in just over a year....

A federal magistrate judge on Monday ruled that Apple did not have to unlock an encrypted iPhone used in a federal drug case The ruling gave the company a key victory against the Department of Justice in the midst of a legal struggle over an FBI request that the encrypted phone of one of the suspected shooters in the San Bernardino, California, mas...

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that veers slightly left from the Mobile World Congress deluge to bring you the most intriguing of the latest gadget announcements ...

Apple has changed the date for the launch event for its 4-inch iPhone and new iPad Air from March 15 to March 21, according to news reports If the rumor is correct, Apple will be holding the event the day before it appears in a federal court in California to contest a controversial court order. Apple has filed a motion to vacate the order requiring...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its HoloLens Development Edition was available for preorder, with units set to ship to developers beginning March 30 The company early last year introduced the holographic computer technology as a feature for Windows 10. It later announced apartnership with Volvo that would allow the application to be applied to t...

The Obama administration plans to increase the amount of private communications the National Security Agency can share with other government agencies without first adding privacy protections, according to a report published last week in The New York Times The plan would ease restrictions on the amount of intercepted email and telephone intelligence...

Microsoft last week announced measures to improve security management and transparency for Azure cloud services and Office 365 The features, which come from technology Microsoft acquired last year when it purchased Adallom, will bolster security in cloud apps such as Office 365, Box, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Ariba....

Apple last week filed a motion to vacate a federal order requiring the company to create a tool or code to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters The order would set a dangerous precedent and release a powerful means to breach security on potentially millions of phones around the world, Apple argued....

Anyone who went to business school recognizes the basic tenet that you use marketing to build demand in order to sell products. Through the 1990s, there was impressive marketing surrounding laptops -- Intel's iconic Bunny People come to mind. Apple aggressively marketed this class, as did Microsoft, and it seemed every other brand on TV was trying to convince us we needed a new PC. ...

Facebook on Thursday yanked the drapery off its Canvas, inviting marketers to splash it with their best promotions. The new platform will provide brands with a new medium for storytelling, and it will return ad pages up to 10 times faster than mobile Web pages do, the company proclaimed....

RebeccaBlackOS is a Debian Testing-based live distribution that offers a developmental view ofWayland-based Linux desktop sessions....

Three years of thought went into the think-between-steps shooter gameSuperhot, which was released Thursday Born of a week-long first-person-shooter game jam, Superhot's concept caught the attention of the Kickstarter crowd, raising US$250,000....

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday voted unanimously to make computer science a graduation requirement for all high school students beginning with next year's freshmen Chicago Public Schools has become a national leader in computer science education since Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the Computer Science for All initiative for grades K-12 i...

Salesforce shares held strong on Friday, following Thursday's spike on the company's release of a fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report that beat Wall Street estimates and raised revenue guidance for fiscal year 2017 The stock finished up 11 percent Thursday, at $69.42, and held the gains on Friday, closing at $69.11....

Wearable device makers shipped more than 27 million units globally in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of nearly 127 percent over the year-ago quarter,IDC reported Tuesday Vendors shipped a total of 78.1 million units in 2015, up 171.6 percent over 2014, according to the "Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker" report....