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SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, announced that it plans to invest $38.9 billion to build three new semiconductor fabrication plants by 2024.

Although automakers are spending billions of dollars to put cutting-edge technologies in vehicles, a new report shows many owners don't use them.

It's been a long time coming, gang, but it's finally here. Yes, oh, yes: The smartphone revolution has officially begun.

Only three months or so ago, the cloud world was interested to learn that IBM, already a strong player in the various open-source cloud initiatives in existence, was acquiring the small but influential OpenStack vendor Blue Box. At the time, many commented that it was a good investment — Blue Box has, after all, built itself a good reputation in the OpenStack ecosystem and grown a level of credibility that was probably larger than its business presence would have indicated.

The man who allegedly shot and killed two journalists in Virginia while they were doing an on-air interview, posted video he took of the murders to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Comprehensive security training programs with a continuous training methodology can significantly reduce the financial consequences of phishing in the workplace, according to a research report published Wednesday.

Agora, the Tor network's largest black marketplace, has been temporarily shut down because its administrators worry the website is vulnerable to recent methods of exposing Tor Hidden Services.

Storage vendor Scality is enjoying a seemingly easy ride as it leverages continued and increasing awareness about software-defined storage (SDS). The idea of SDS is pretty simple. Much as server virtualization allows physical hardware to be abstracted away from the actual provision of compute, SDS layers a fabric on top of various storage assets to create a pool of resources that can be programmatically utilized.

A notorious spammer is facing up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to sending millions of unwanted email messages after breaching Facebook's computer network.

IDC has revised its 2015 forecasts for the PC and tablet markets, saying shipments in both will fall more than it had anticipated due in part to economic challenges, a hardware surplus and waning interest among businesses and consumers to upgrade.

When chipmaker Intel acquired API management vendor Mashery a few years ago for around $200 million, it almost made sense if you squinted a bit and stood on your head. The thinking went something along these lines:  Intel's chips needed APIs to enable a whole bunch of higher-level services, and by acquiring a company that was all about enabling API creation and management, it could do that better.

Windows 10 upgrade installations aren't for the helpless. As a longtime Windows reviewer -- and even though I defected to the Mac some time ago -- I don't qualify as helpless. Still, it's surprising that, for a version of Windows on which Microsoft placed so much emphasis on upgrades, Windows 10 has a remarkable set of post-upgrade problems. I can't speak to the number of people dealing with severe issues, but the Internet is filled with posts from users running into slow boot-up times and/or... Читать дальше...

Agora, the largest online black market on the Dark Web, is temporarily shutting down in response to “vulnerabilities in the Tor Hidden Services protocol which could help to deanonymize server locations.”

Google is the latest cloud service provider to rally behind containers, an emerging type of virtualization technology that adherents claim can streamline the process of running workloads in the cloud.

IBM is beefing up its offerings in software-defined storage, which promises to let IT departments better deal with large amounts of storage by uncoupling the management software from its underlying hardware.

There’s a memorable line in the penultimate scene of the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.The evil antagonist has just met his comeuppance after drinking from what he hoped was the immortality-granting Holy Grail. Says the Grail’s ancient guardian: “He chose poorly.” It is up to the hero, Indiana Jones, to choose wisely.

Congratulations  - you’ve been tasked with running your first software development team! Now the real fun begins.

Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation have been duking it out for several years now. VirtualBox occupies the “free and open source” corner of the ring, while VMware Workstation is a proprietary commercial application. For the price, Workstation has generally led in features and performance, while also providing close integrations with the rest of the VMware virtualization line.

University of California, Santa Barbara, is the top computer science school in the U.S., according to a new salary-centric report from compensation specialist PayScale.

Chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has won a court ruling that will prohibit a former employee from leaking trade secrets to rivals, including Samsung.

It would be difficult to come up with a better illustration of the profound effect data can have on people's lives than the Ashley Madison hack, which has not only sparked numerous lawsuits but also been associated with several suicides.

A California bill that restricts flying of drones to above 350 feet (107 meters) over private property is just one of several state bills in the U.S. that aim to regulate various aspects of flying the unmanned aircraft.

Congratulations  - you’ve been tasked with running your first software development team! Now the real fun begins.

NTT Communications will provide its enterprise customers with direct private connectivity to Microsoft’s and Amazon Web Services' public clouds through a new service, Multi-Cloud Connect.

Samsung comes under intense criticism for Galaxy Note 5 design flaw. If you insert the S-Pen upside-down, it gets stuck. Removing it damages the phablet's motherboard -- probably beyond repair.