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Users will have to opt in separately to the feature, called "Nearby Friends," and agree to give Facebook permission to track them at all times, even when not logged into Facebook.

International Business Machines Corp. shares dropped the most in six months after the company said yesterday that first- quarter revenue slid 3.9 percent to $22.5 billion.

I BM Corp reported its lowest quarterly revenue in five years on Wednesday as the company struggles with falling demand for its storage and server products.

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"I think you'll see wide-area, high-bandwidth [smart]watches this year at some point," said Glenn Lurie, president of emerging devices at AT&T, in an interview.

RCMP investigators canvass the neighbourhood around the house of Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, 19, in London, Ont., in London, Ontario on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Aaron Bailey was fed up with paying about $120 a month for satellite TV service when he heard about Aereo, a start-up company that streams live broadcast stations over the Internet for $8 to $12 a month.

Ashley Lee never really had an interest in computers and engineering while he was a student at Hibriten High School and Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, focusing more on sports and martial arts.

As Winston Churchill once said, "to improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded.

In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading.

The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing.

The study demonstrates that a real-time engagement detection technology that processes facial expressions can perform with accuracy comparable to that of human observers.

Carnegie Mellon University today named Google Vice President Andrew W. Moore as the new dean of its School of Computer Science.

Microsoft Corp needs a "data culture" to thrive in the new computing environment, according to chief executive Satya Nadella, in his third public appearance in three weeks putting his imprint on the software company.

Enterprises put a lot of time and effort into protecting their servers but what happens on the user desktop always presents a potential risk and can be hard to control.

'Computer science' seems to be popularly synonymous with 'programming', rather than taking into account the thoughtful process of solving design, scalability, and interface problems.

CIO - It's hard to resist the sparkly nirvana that big data, leveraged appropriately, promises to those who choose to embrace it.

RED HAT SUMMIT 2014 - ConteXtream Inc. , a leading provider of carrier-grade network virtualization solutions, today announced its collaboration with , Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, to integrate OpenStack orchestration with ConteXtream's software-defined networking and network functions virtualization fabric for ... (more)

This screen shot shows a command prompt from Cortana, Windows phone software's virtual assistant.