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According to new a survey done by market research firm Parks Associates , Apple desktops have become the most sought after desktop computers this holiday season, beating out longtime holiday desktop leader Dell and other competitors such as HP and Acer.

At a meeting with youth on Wednesday to promote his landmark healthcare law, Obama said he is not allowed to have Apple's smart phone, the iPhone, for "security reasons," though he still uses Apple's tablet computer, the iPad.

Big software companies are betting the next big trend in personal computers will be wearable in nature; there are already smart glasses and smart watches.

If your computer is infected with a virus or other forms of malware, disconnecting the machine from the Internet is one of the first steps security experts say you should take.

A security researcher has released software and technical instructions for modifying a drone so that it can identify and hijack other drones.

Layla Poage, 5, rests on a cart while her mother, Heather Poage, looks at computers at Best Buy, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, in Overland Park, Kan.

An outside audit ordered by the Shelby County Schools board shows that $48.4 million in school equipment is missing or unaccounted for in the district.

The National Cheng Kung University Supercomputing Research Center has built the world's first switchless cluster computer.

The government says Indianapolis International Airport will have the first enrollment site for an expedited screening program that allows airline passengers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belts and keep laptop computers in cases at security checkpoints.

The Wichita Eagle reports the council approved the bonds Tuesday. The plane builder says the move should create at least 50 more jobs.

Sony said on Tuesday it has sold more than 2.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles after less than three weeks on the market, as it battles Microsoft and Nintendo for supremacy in the lucrative gaming sector.

A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company.

From background images to the way icons look, users aim to put the personal back in personal computer.

Advances in computer storage have created collections of data so huge that researchers often have trouble uncovering critical patterns in connections among individual items, making it difficult for them to realize fully the power of computing as a research tool.

Intel's open-source Galileo computer aimed at hardware hackers and the do-it-yourself crowd has started shipping to distributors and will be available to the public in two weeks.

In this , Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, the HP Chromebook 11 is displayed at a Google event in New York.

Millions of Americans were expected to shop with a few clicks of their computers or mobile devices Monday to take advantage of special discounts offered on the first working day after the long Thanksgiving weekend.

VKontakte founder Pavel Durov accused the Ukrainian authorities of trying to extort a $100,000 bribe from him for returning the computer servers they had confiscated from his social network this summer.

Cyber Monday has been with us since the advent of the internet. Even though online computers are now as close as our pockets, the shopping day shows no signs of slowing down.

Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean.