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COULD A COMPUTER DREAMED HER UP? Daenerys Targaryen , from George RR Martin's hit book series and TV show Game of Thrones.

Some Miami County business, including its courts, can continue while the county government's computer servers remain down, but personal calendars remain unavailable, traffic tickets are piling up and even child support payments aren't being sent out, Prosecutor Bruce Embrey told The Peru Tribune for a story Thursday.

A federal judge in the U.S. territory of Guam has denied a motion to release a Russian man accused of hacking computers inside hundreds of U.S. businesses.

Former Auburn City Council member Joshua Shea is set to make his initial court appearance on child pornography charges in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

If you're going to drop hundreds of dollars on back-to-school supplies, you might as well do it now.

Most states offer tax-free holidays on school supplies , and some even give tax breaks on big-ticket purchases like computers, software and clothing.

Sony Corp. reported a surprise eightfold jump in quarterly profit Thursday as sales got a perk from a cheap yen and its bottom line was helped by gains from selling buildings and its stake in a video-game maker.

USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.

Samsung Electronics Co. reported lower-than-expected profit for the second quarter on Thursday and said it was uncertain if handset business profit would improve during the current period.

It's been a rough start for Intel's MinnowBoard Max open-source computer, which has been delayed and is now pricier.

Law school graduates sweated their way through the second and final day of their bar exams Wednesday, some relieved to see paper and pencil after running into a technical glitch that kept test takers in several states from uploading the first day's answers from their computers.

Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions.

With the disappearance of the desktop computer and the downfall of the deskphone, could we be seeing the demise of the office desk? "We still need a place on which to set all that digital stuff," says Henry Petroski, a civil engineering professor at Duke University and author of numerous design books, including The House with Sixteen Handmade ... (more)

Officials say state and local sales taxes in most Georgia counties will be waived between Aug. 1 and 2. Officials say the tax exemption applies to computers, software and more worth less than $1,000, clothes and shoes worth less than $100 per item, and school supplies worth less than $20 per item.

The office Lothario is the most popular person in the company until his favors go too far -- all the way to the president We in IT like to think we're superheroes , using our tech powers for good rather than evil to safeguard company security, increase worker productivity, and generally keep operations humming along.

Whether you're shopping for back to school or just need a solid laptop for every day essentials, I have you covered.

Symantec's Endpoint Protection product has three zero-day flaws that could allow a logged-in user to move to a higher access level on a computer, according to a penetration testing and training company.

China's startups received a record amount of venture capital funding in the second quarter, driven by a flow of public offerings both at home and abroad and a pressing need for venture capital firms to deploy capital, Sonja Cheung reports for VentureWire .

During this year's World Wide Developer's Conference -- where software is introduced and released in beta form to developers and enthusiasts -- Apple execs revealed that they would ship a public beta of the latest Mac operating system, OS X 10.10, popularly known as Yosemite.

BlackBerry said Tuesday that it will acquire Secusmart, a German mobile security company.