Computers News

Web surfing through the Internet's main gateway now looks slightly different on personal computers, thanks to a few cosmetic changes to Google's search engine this week.

I can definitely appreciate that people are hesitant to dump their old computers, many of which must have been substantial personal investments at the time of purchase.

Smith County capital murder defendant, James Calvert, says the free computer he is getting in jail is not good enough.

The National Journal reports: This just in from the Edward Snowden vault of government secrets: The National Security Agency is breaking into "potentially millions of computers worldwide" and infecting them with malware "implants" as part of an effort that is increasingly relying on automated systems and not human oversight, according to a by First ... (more)

The issue of library users accessing innappropriate websites has been highlighted to The Standard - with concerns children using the facility could be exposed to it.

Wave wants its quantum computer to surpass the performance of traditional computers in the coming years, and has a processor roadmap that could make that happen.

The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly been working for the past several years on expanding its ability to infect computers with surveillance malware and creating a command-and-control infrastructure capable of managing millions of compromised systems at a time.

Television show creators are peering into the geeky and moneyed world of computer programmers with a new comedy from HBO and a drama from AMC, both debuting this spring.

The Board of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company has elected Jeffrey J. Clarke as Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors.

Officials say a dog may have saved its owner's life by waking him up during an early morning fire in East Providence, R.I. Officials say a dog may have saved its owner's life by waking him up during an early morning fire in East Providence, R.I. Firefighters tell WPRI-TV that the 50-year-old man may not have survived if his dog, Liberty, hadn't ... (more)

BELIEVE it or not, it was a hard sell in the early 1980s to convince people to buy a computer for the home.

Chinese PC maker Lenovo is trying to reassure workers that their salaries won't change even after it completes its acquisition of International Business Machines ' Last week, some workers at IBM's Chinese computer server factory went on strike because they were worried that Lenovo, their new employer, would cut costs by slashing their wages.

A Highland man who tried to flee to Mexico after being convicted on federal child pornography charges was sentenced Tuesday to 17 A1 2 years in prison, Michael Mazel, 38, was tracked by U.S.marshals to Casa Grande, AZ, in January after he cut off his electronic ankle monitor and fled on Jan.19, three days before his sentencing date in U.S. District ... (more)

The south central Texas city's completely digital library, known as the BiblioTech, lets Bexar County readers check out up to five books at a time on their devices from home or wherever they are.

More and more taxpayers are entering the digital age in filing their returns. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that more than 80% of tax returns are now filed electronically using home computers and tax preparation software.

More than 5,000 computers are refurbished and distributed annually to public schools and another 1,000 to First Nations' schools, private schools, libraries, Literacy Nova Scotia and other non-profit organizations.

Edward Snowden says the National Security Agency is "setting fire to the future of the Internet" with the clandestine tech snooping program he exposed last year - and the tech community needs to help "fix" it.

Through March 7, the IRS had received more than 1.4 million electronic returns from Tennesseans.

Intel can release cables based on silicon photonics to succeed Thunderbolt, but faster throughput is not needed, the company says Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a need for faster connectors.

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes and hardware that uses colored lights and engineered bacteria to bring both mathematical predictability and cut-and-paste simplicity to the world of genetic circuit design.