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More than 40 members of Forfar Probus Club attended the last meeting to hear a fascinating talk about an engineering pioneer.

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The scheme aims to help primary school teachers implement the new computing curriculum which comes into force in September.

AN ACADEMIC has said schools should "give up" trying to attract more girls into traditionally male subjects such as physics, computing and engineering.

Image Caption: Encryption might not be enough for all that data stored in the cloud.

There is no doubt that Big Data is here and getting bigger every day. Building a Big Data infrastructure today is no easy task.

Image Caption: In the researchers' experiments, the robot helicopter was equipped with a continuous-light source, a photographic flash, and a laser rangefinder.

According to security firm TrapX, the attack begins at a Chinese company that provides hardware and software for handheld scanners used by shipping and logistics firms worldwide to inventory the items they're handling.

The changes in Google's algorithms in recent years have gradually phased out user-generated content sites or "content farms," as they are often disparagingly referred to by critics.

IBM is unveiling a massive $3 billion research and development round on Wednesday, investing in weird, science fiction-like technologies--and, in the process, essentially staking Big Blue's long-term survival on big data and cognitive computing.

For reasons I can't fully understand, the Internet loves its cats. Keyboard Cat and Grumpy Cat are household names, I Can Haz Cheezeburger is a digital empire, and my real-life cats are on a social networking site called Catster .

Big data - the kind that statisticians and computer scientists scour for insights on human beings and our societies - is cooked up using a recipe that's been used a thousand times.

All too many discussions about DevOps conclude that the solution is an all-purpose player: developer and operations guru, complete with pager for round-the-clock duty.

A Portlethen computing student has picked up an industry-sponsored award for his outstanding academic performance throughout first year at Robert Gordon University .

Technology is an established part of the lives of students. But university lecturers are becoming increasingly frustrated at how they must compete with tablets and laptops for students' attention in the lecture hall.

The 3,000-word email posted on the company's news site for all the world to see sums up an array of goals for the company, among them dividing work and private data on devices, speed developing new products, creating new devices and device categories, and support for competitors' applications and operating systems.

EnVerv announced today samples availability of its EV8600 dual-modem PLC+RF System on Chip targeted at a multitude of Advanced Metering Infrastructure , industrial automation and home automation applications.

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Shyan Kashani, a graduate of the University of California, is now using a new online service called Collegefeed to look for potential jobs.

The Bitcoin mining craze is driving the creation of a new breed of computing facilities featuring high-density hardware, low-reliability electrical infrastructure and off-the-shelf enclosures.