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Apple may be considering partnering with its China-based supplier Foxconn to purchase a major stake in Toshiba's semiconductor unit.

Microsoft this week began blocking Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs equipped with the very newest processors from receiving security updates, making good on a policy it announced but did not implement last year.

We're in the booming era of the internet of things -- things are changing, and changing fast. IoT is touching almost everything in both the commercial and consumer worlds.

Quantum computing may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but within the next 10 years, it could be a reality. 

Last month, we had the largest ever release of patches and updates from Microsoft.

I’ve been using a MacBook Pro with Touchbar for a few months, and I’ve become quite familiar with its new user interface features – to the extent that I feel Laptop magazine was incredibly unfair in its recent criticism of the computer.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley is having growing pains.

Stanford and Palo Alto, where Bill Hewlett and David Packard formed Hewlett Packard, were long considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. But as chip and other hardware firms grew up further south, San Jose declared itself the "Capital of Silicon Valley." The area is littered with tech giants, from Apple and HP to Intel, Cisco and eBay.

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XYZprinting has led the way in low-cost 3D printers by offering a variety of models that undercut higher-priced machines with similar capabilities. There are machines that print using using liquid resin (stereolithography) and professional-grade machines for rapid prototyping.

Flashback to the earliest days of desktop computing, when the high school where this pilot fish is a student gets its first-ever computer: a Sol-20.

Need a great business plan? Create a product that everyone wants, then stop selling that product. 

As expected, Microsoft named May 9 as the date it will issue the final updates for the debut edition of Windows 10 that launched in 2015.