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The Solus Project is a rebranded and rereleased Linux distro trying to regain its former popularity.In a field of Linux distributions cluttered with look-alike offerings, Solus brings something simple and something new. This third time could be the charm. Solus has impressive potential for being uncomplicated and different....

We all use them. They're the default system for listing and tracking things. And no one (except, maybe for that one weird guy in finance) really likes them. I'm talking about spreadsheets. Whether it's Excel or Google Sheets or some other lesser-known variation on the theme, a lot of spreadsheets are created every year....

PayPal on Monday returned to the Nasdaq as an independent company, no longer tethered to eBay PayPal debuted at a market value 1.4 times its former parent -- US$46.6 billion -- while eBay's capitalization shrunk to $34 billion....

Capcom on Sunday introduced the first of four new characters for its upcoming Street Fighter V, as it continued a reveal that promises a more connected, less confusing experience for players of the next installment in the decades-old series Whether in a dark alley or a sunny park, any encounter with Necalli would trigger the run-and-hide side of th...

Up to 30 percent of their firms' security incidents this year should have been detected by perimeter security measures -- but weren't -- said 55 percent of respondents to a SANS Institute survey The truth is that today's attackers have become skilled at bypassing conventional defenses, which no longer can be counted on to protect enterprise network...

About 40 million swingers and sexual sophisticates have been whimpering in fear since hearing Sunday's news that hackers broke into the servers of Avid Life Media, the parent company of online cheating site Ashley Madison. The hackers stole large caches of personal data, Krebs on Security reported....

Ford Motor Company has developed a new lighting system that can illuminate hazards on the road -- even those that are not in the direct line of travel of the vehicle -- better than conventional headlights. Ford on Friday unveiled the Camera-Based Advanced Front Lighting System, which can widen the beam from headlines at junctions and roundabouts, ...

Six years and more than a dozen spinoffs after Angry Birds first took flight, the game finally will receive a proper sequel on July 30, Rovio announced last week The details are scant, but Angry Birds 2 apparently will be "bigger, badder and birdier," going by a tweet from Rovio....

Hardly a day goes by without a headline about a cyberintrusion. No entity is immune -- international retailers, airlines, hotels, mom and pop stores, cloud providers -- even the U.S. government. However, it seems that few businesses contemplate how important it is for their attorney to know and understand cybersecurity, as well as know what to do when a cyberintrusion occurs. ...

An old fable keeps running over and over in my mind about the scam artist who convinced an emperor that he had created clothing only smart people could see. Everyone says they see the clothing because they don't want to look stupid. Granted, I'm thinking that walking around in clothing stupid people can't see doesn't sound that enticing, but tha...

Greetings, and welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, where we award trophies for the best and worst of this week's gadget hunt In our crosshairs this week are a smartphone from an audio equipment maker, an enormous USB power brick, a smartphone case for moviemakers, and a gun detection system....

Suse Linux this week announced a partnership to extend support for 64-bit ARM server processors. The goal is to give Suse Linux Enterprise 12 users greater flexibility and cost efficiencies with respect to their infrastructures This expansion makes available to seven partners a version of Suse Linux Enterprise 12 that lets them develop, test and de...

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire FieldOne, developer of a cloud-based field service management solution. FieldOne's technology will add a new dimension to Microsoft Dynamics CRM FieldOne provides field service management tools for work order management, automated scheduling, asset management, contract mana...

Email has made communicating with elected officials easy, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week launched a new tool that is going to make it easier yet The tool, which resides at Democracy.io, allows you to send an electronic missive to your U.S. representative and senators with a minimum of clicks. Typically, you'd have to go to your le...

Photos transmitted from 4 billion miles away by NASA's New Horizons Pluto space probe have sparked fresh interest in space exploration New Horizons traveled more than 3 billion miles over a nine-and-a-half year stretch to reach the Pluto system.

Swipes, taps, cursor movements and other ways of interacting with electronic devices can be used to protect online merchants from Net fraudsters Many people are familiar with biometric authenticators like irises, fingerprints and voices, but it turns out that how we behave with our machines can be a means of authenticating our identities, too....

Comcast -- and in fact, the entire cable television industry -- is going through a time of incredible change. Cable companies used to grow year after year because there was no competition. However, today they are losing market share, so to help plug the hole, Comcast just introduced Stream. Will it work? Stream is a new subscription streaming servi...

United States law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in 19 countries on Wednesday announced they had dismantled the Darkode hackers' forum Charges, arrests and searches were launched against 70 Darkode members and associates around the world, and 12 people associated with the forum were indicted in the U.S....

Having meaningful work is one of the biggest challenges for many people at the bottom of the employment ladder. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell documented the multigenerational effect of meaningful work. The children of people who had meaningful work turned out to be more successful and advanced further in their careers than ch...

Google on Wednesday announced that it is giving tablet and smartphone users more purchase options in an effort to respond to shoppers' "micro moments." Mobile devices influenced about 28 percent of in-store sales in the U.S. last year, noted Jonathan Alferness, vice president of product management for Google Shopping.