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HP (HPQ, Tech30) announced Monday that it plans to put its PC and printer operations under one roof under the name HP Inc., and its business that provides software and services to corporate customers under another under the name HP Enterprise. The company said the split will give both companies the
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As the more paranoid among us freak out and reach for the hazmat suits, America is fighting the Ebola threat the only way it knows how: hundreds of thousands of dollars of robots, natch. A 'germ-zapping' robot developed in San Antonio is reportedly deployed in Dallas, where doctors are treating the
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At one time, Epecuén was a booming resort city: a grand town on a beautiful lake, attracting vacationers from all over Argentina in the 1920s with its revitalizing salt waters. There were hotels, nightclubs, and restaurants. Today, it's a thicket of bleached white ruins, latticed with rusted steel a
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The revelation follows news back in August that hackers had infiltrated seven of the country's largest banks, using sophisticated malware to burrow into their computer systems and manipulate records. At JPMorgan (JPM), the hackers got contact information for 76 million households and 7 million small
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Let’s break it down. The left side of the Windows 10 Start menu is, except for some new coloring and formatting, is mostly identical to Windows 7. There are a few improvements, however: The power button has moved to the top, and the right-hand menus like Documents, Computer, and Control Panel have m
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The term “robotic exoskeleton” conjures up images of a heavy contraption with a metal frame and powerful motors that endow the wearer with super-human strength. While that’s certainly one way to think of robotic exoskeletons — like some members of Daewoo’s workforce slip into on a daily basis — scie
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Just two days after jettisoning its last x86-oriented division to Lenovo, IBM has unveiled the first servers based on the new Power8 CPU architecture. Somewhat unusually, IBM’s press release for the new servers directly attacks both Intel’s “closed and proprietary” way of doing business and its prod
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Guest post by Tina Hesman Saey The discovery of brain cells that provide a sort of “inner GPS” has been awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.Half of the prize goes to John O’Keefe of University College London. In 1971, he found that “place cell” neurons in the brain’s memory center bec
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Ever visit a website that's in a foreign language while using Safari on your iOS device? If so, you've already experienced the disappointment of realizing that Safari lacks the ability to translate the page for you. Prior to iOS 8, I kept Google's Chrome app installed on my iPhone with its sole purp
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Microsoft has launched new plans for subscription-based service Office 365 that the company says are designed to better meet the needs of business users. Available as of Thursday, the three new plans are called Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium. As d
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Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed? In another new effort to speed up the adoption of the Internet of Things, chip designer ARM Holdings announced Wednesday it has created a free operating system called Mbed, which it is launching with about two dozen
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There are quite a few theories floating around out there as to why Microsoft decided to name the latest version of its flagship operating system Windows 10, skipping over Windows 9. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the name and showed off a brief demo of the OS at a press event in San Francisco. The
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