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Microsoft has deployed another Windows 10 upgrade weapon from an arsenal once thought empty.

In case you missed it, on May 4 Microsoft made it loud and clear it has resuscitated SharePoint On-Premises and there will be future versions, even beyond SharePoint Server 2016. However, by making you aware of the scenarios most appropriate for On-Premises and the scenarios where you can benefit from SharePoint Online, Microsoft is going to remain adamant about allowing you to create the perfect SharePoint hybrid deployment.

In what is being called a "surprise discovery," researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found they may be able to boost energy conversion rates in one type of solar module by as much as 40%.

Sorry, kids, but you won’t have Snapchat all to yourselves anymore.

It seems the adults are crashing the party.

While Facebook and Twitter have been the bastions for people who are well passed their teen years and early 20s, Snapchat and Instagram have been home to younger users.

Those younger users wanted social networks where they wouldn't find their parents, aunts, uncles and even grandparents.

Now that social oasis for the younger generation may be vanishing.

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The just-released draft of the Democratic party platform calls for increasing investments in science and technology research. It supports net neutrality and expansion of high-speed broadband networks. But its biggest push is in the areas of clean energy and infrastructure investment.

I fly a ridiculous amount -- last year I got close to half a million miles -- and therefore have a huge amount of time to ponder the experience that passengers receive when flying.

Microsoft is giving small businesses a new way to hold meetings online with the launch of a free Skype Meetings product that's aimed at providing professional communication tools for free.

Windows 10 growth slowed slightly last month but remained robust enough to push the nearly-one-year-old OS over the 21% share bar, according to new data from metrics vendor Net Applications.

The United Nations Humans Rights Council regards internet access as a basic human right, having passed a non-binding resolution (pdf) condemning countries which intentionally take away citizen’s internet access.

Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" in her use of a private email server while she was U.S. secretary of state, but the FBI doesn't recommend bringing charges against her for mishandling classified information.

Microsoft apologists insist that the company wasn’t really trying to push Windows 10 on users when it recently did stealth OS updates on their PCs. There’s only one problem with this: Users disagreed. Now, as the clock runs out on Microsoft’s offer of free Windows 10 “upgrades,” it appears the company is readying another approach to get you to move from older versions of Windows: subscriptions.

A critical vulnerability that was recently found in the low-level firmware of Lenovo ThinkPad systems also reportedly exists in products from other vendors, including HP and Gigabyte Technology.

Google's DeepMind AI business unit is hoping to teach computers to diagnose eye disease, using patient data from a U.K. hospital.

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The European Union is putting up €450 million ($500 million) to fund research into cybersecurity and wants industry to contribute three times that.

Apple’s latest mobile OS, iOS 10, is packed with new additions and new ways to get things done, but what follows are eleven tips you’ll almost certainly use once the public beta ships later this summer or when the final OS reaches out in Fall.

There were two troubling reports from the automotive field last week. Both are sobering and serve as good reminders, and they by no means cancel each other out.

A new alert appears in older version of Windows, filling the entire screen. It warns users they have until the end of this month to upgrade...or else.

In our testing of 10 endpoint security products, we found that no one product does everything. You will have to make compromises, depending on what other security tools you already have installed and the skill levels of your staff. While there is no single product that can suit all situations, endpoint configurations and IT requirements, there are a few key things to consider in your purchase:

At a recent industry conference, Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey was talking about the challenges of retail competition when he made an intriguing point. Amazon.com is positioned, he said, to subsidize its partner pricing indefinitely, thereby harming competitors by forcing them to sell at lower-than-sustainable prices.

Since the initial release of Windows 10 last July, Microsoft has been working to improve the look and feel of its flagship desktop operating system and has solicited user input and feedback through the Windows Feedback app, which has been integrated into all Windows 10 versions. And the company shows every sign of reading, considering and often acting upon user requests for interface changes and improvements. Thus, you'll see lots helpful, if small, changes to the Windows 10 UI, as the company... Читать дальше...

Sometimes, you gotta wonder about timing.

Less than a week after Tesla announced a fatal car crash involving its Model S while in Autopilot mode, news of software update 8.0 coming to the cars is making headlines. Evidently, the two things are unrelated, but the timing is still raising some eyebrows.

In IT Blogwatch, we tease out the details.

Wondering what update 8.0 actually is? We get the pertinent information from AutoBlog:

Google has sold its stake in satellite Internet access provider O3b Networks to co-investor SES.

Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in Android devices with Qualcomm chipsets in order to extract the encrypted keys that protect users' data and run brute-force attacks against them.

The OnePlus 3 smartphone raises two difficult questions: Just what is a flagship product? And why should you care?