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Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as the computer's master boot record (MBR), leaving devices unable to load the OS.

On the surface, a merger between Tesla Motors and SolarCity looks like a winner: They have a similar customer base, use each other's manufacturing facilities and technologies -- and of course, there's the family ties.

Finding insight in oceans of data is one of enterprises' most pressing challenges, and increasingly artificial intelligence is being brought in to help. Now, a new tool for Apache Spark aims to put machine learning within closer reach.

Intel wants to take on Google's Tensor Processing Unit and Nvidia's GPUs in machine learning computing with improvements to its Xeon Phi mega-chips.

An estimated 33 million users deserted Microsoft's browsers last month, pushing the Redmond, Wash. company's browser strategy ever closer to the edge of irrelevancy, according to analytics data published today.

Facebook is taking a major step in helping users around the world connect with more people by helping them share their posts and comments in multiple languages.

Ideally, the ultimate output of big-data analysis can provide a company with a valuable competitive advantage. But those results aren’t getting much additional security, according to an IDG Enterprise study of big-data initiatives.

In its quest to provide solace to yet more struggling music industry executives, Apple, says the WSJ, is in talks to buy Tidal.

BMW wants to make a completely autonomous car called iNEXT, suited for both city streets and highways, by 2021.

Spain has joined the scrum of tax authorities examining Google's accounts to see if the company has paid all that it should.

Samsung and AT&T this month released the latest "ruggedized" Galaxy smartphone, the Galaxy S7 (GS7) Active. The new phone is nearly identical to the "regular" GS7, with a few key differences. It's designed to stand up to more abuse than its sleeker, more delicate GS7 and GS7 edge counterparts. It has a bigger battery and an additional customizable side button, along with some other design departures. The Active version also costs $100 more than the base GS7.

Agile software development methodologies are hardly new. But figuring out a way to adequately contract for them in IT outsourcing deal is.

What has Ulta Beauty figured out that still eludes so many brick-and-mortar retailers? That in-store is about the experience and that brick-and-mortars need to deliver services and goods in a way that e-tailers cannot. By their very nature, e-tailers have the advantage on price, convenience and inventory range — and same-day delivery is starting to give some an edge on speed. Physical stores must deliver unique and compelling experiences or they simply can't win customers over in the long term.

No need to fight

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It's a familiar scenario: your security team wants—needs—to lock down part of your enterprise's network. And yet the network team resists you at every turn. Don't they understand that security is paramount? Do they want to get hacked?

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It's finally happened! Shout it from the rooftops, tweet it from your nexus phone -- Google has announced that the official name of the Android N operating system is Android Nougat.

Summertime, and the reading is easy

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There’s something about summer -- with its longer days, warmer weather and (hopefully) lighter workloads -- that tempts people to slow down, stretch out and enjoy a good book. For IT types, that often means catching up on some of the best business and technology books out there.

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It's the midst of the Great Recession, and this big bank starts telling the companies that provide it with IT contractors that it's cutting rates, according to a pilot fish who's caught in the middle.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been awarded $3 billion in a lawsuit it brought against Oracle five years ago over a now largely forgotten Intel processor.

Federal regulators are investigating Tesla's autopilot feature after a fatal crash involving a tractor trailer and one of its Model S cars.

The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s networks is trying to beat back accusations that he’s linked with the Russian government.