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The future will be here before you know it. In director Wally Pfister's epic thriller "Transcendence" starring Johnny Depp and available now on Blu-ray, the fight for that future is a matter of life or death for Dr. Will Caster .

We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC and real systems using this technology have begun to appear.

Octoblu on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode to announce its vision to provide an Internet of Things platform for real-time connections and communication management across applications, people and physical devices.

The cloud computing have a number of advantages. Benefits such as time saving, cost saving, energy saving or storage on demand are written on the brochure or mentioned in the advertisement of the service provider.

The cradle of techno-innovation, the Bay Area has fallen as flat as the rest of the country in one critical area: nurturing the next generation of cyber whizzes.

The cradle of techno-innovation, the Bay Area has fallen as flat as the rest of the country in one critical area: nurturing the next generation of cyber whizzes.

A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool, TOR, will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month.

Moving virtual servers around a hybrid cloud environment isn't hard, but managing the data is.

The National University of Singapore's School of Computing - which offers the largest number of degree courses in computer science, information systems and business analytics - has seen a rise in the quantity and quality of applications.

Among them: dried noodles that come wrapped around a pair of chopsticks; a tubular meal that can be pulled with two fingers from a car cup holder base; and a fork that squeezes out sauce.

Before Ralf Groene helped devise the look and feel of Microsoft's Surface tablet, he designed food - or "food concepts," he says, for people on the go.

Cybercriminals are spreading a new file-encrypting ransomware program that's more powerful and resilient than Cryptolocker, a threat recently shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice.

But Folwick and Sepulveda couldn't be happier. The two Akins High School students are a part of the STEMbridge program, which allows students to learn coding and develop useful computer science skills in a comprehensive four-week course.

Tech pioneers in the US are advocating a new data-based approach to governance - 'algorithmic regulation'.

Plans to favor some Internet packets over others threaten consumers' hard-won right to use encryption, a digital privacy advocate says.

SPYRUS today announced a new highly ruggedized water-resistant version of their Portable Workplace, Secure Portable Workplace, WorkSafe and WorkSafe Pro portable SSD live drives Microsoft certified for Windows To Go 8.1 designed for environmentally challenging portable computing environments such as military, law enforcement, construction, or ... (more)

In addition to six greenfield economic cities, efforts are being made to uplift cities such as Makkah toward Smart City status.

A "valley of death" is well-known to entrepreneurs - the lull between government funding for research and industry support for prototypes and products.

A long article at The Observer examines the regulatory possibilities of "smart" phones, cars and even carpet, and asks what's to become of governance if data and algorithms are setting the limits of human life.

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, which could be useful for expert and amateur bird-watchers alike.