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Siemens is developing new technology aimed at transforming electric cars into "rolling computers" controlled by a centralized computing architecture.

Just over six months after he was posthumously pardoned by Queen Elizabeth II, Alan Turing , the cryptologist who led Britain's successful efforts to crack the German's Enigma code during World War II, turns up on the Mainstage of the Barrington Stage Company in the person of actor Mark H. Dold , who gives a remarkable and memorable performance as ... (more)

An unusual ransomware Trojan, discovered by cybersecurity experts last month, is the first of its kind to secretly use a Tor anonymizing network to hide its communication with a command-and-control server.

A group of Dell experts, customers and partners, as well as analysts and journalists, debate the issues of security in a rapidly evolving IT world.

We recently managed to reduce network errors in Awesomenauts by 10% by improving our throttling algorithm.

Music enthusiasts have long recognized the dramatic changes the music of The Beatles went through in only a few years' time, but now for the first time researchers have scientifically measured the legendary rock band's progression using an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of analyzing and comparing musical styles.

When Shantel Silva got into Villanova University, she did what incoming freshmen do these days.

In their quest to copy competitors, social sites and apps increasingly drop features that are part of the popularity and identity of their products Now, the service has been re-created as a third-rate Yelp instead of a first-rate Foursquare.

This last Monday, Chicago hackerspace Pumping Station One hosted a "Not Exclusively Raspberry Pi Meeting" in which a representative from the Element 14 company demonstrated the newest model of the Raspberry Pi , a revolutionary computer designed to be cheap, easy to program, and flexible in use.

Making waves: Study USA student Jordan Colgan is picture with Helen McBride from the British Council at the Study USA Orientation event at the University of Ulster, Belfast on June 26. INBM30-14S Jordan, who is currently studying Computer Science at the University of Ulster, will soon be heading to Westminster College, Missouri after being selected ... (more)

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.

HOB , one of the market leaders in secure remote access solutions, announced the launch of the new version of HOB MacGate , a software that provides users with a flexible and highly secure remote access solution to Mac computers.

Every week, billions of cyber-events batter government networks. Millions of these attacks hit at network speed, and thousands succeed, as reported by the Homeland Security Department's US Computer Emergency Readiness Team.

What would make someone leave a CEO position at a rising Redwood City tech company to become chief operating officer of BlackBerry , the once dominant smartphone company that is fighting to regain its footing getting knocked off its pedestal by the explosion of iPhone and Android-powered devices around the world? Marty Beard says that he was ... (more)

Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have devised a way of understanding how gene networks are rewired as normal breast cells turn malignant.

A pilot program aimed at improving energy use and reducing utility costs at Wayne County's historic Guardian Building took another step forward with the successful installation of the Energy Operation Center.

Much artificial intelligence research addresses the problem of making predictions based on large data sets.

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The software maker's quantum computing lab is exploring ways to tame qubits - and perhaps help shape the future of IT - at UC Santa Barbara.

Magisto, the cloud-based mobile video platform, today unveiled a new version of Magisto optimized for Amazon's newly announced Fire phone.