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Join us as we find out from our “roving reporter” Bill Brenner how things are shaping up at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco…

jo7hs2 quotes a report from Miami Herald: On a day when a blizzard is pasting Maine and Northern California faces a dire flooding threat, several of the National Weather Service’s primary systems for sending out alerts to the public have…

“A Tesla crash that resulted in the deaths of the driver and a passenger in Indianapolis last November is drawing new controversy after the father of one of the victims made comments regarding the role of the Model S in…

In a bid to get more Indians to have a birth certificate or any sort of ID card, India announced Aadhaar project in 2009. At the time, there were more Indians without these ID cards than those with. As a…

Amazon has released new service to make voice and video calls and share screen. Called Chime, the service is aimed at business users. It directly competes with well-known players such as Skype, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, Zoom, and Cisco’s WebEx, among…

The iconic Nokia 3310 feature phone is all set for a return, according to a report. VentureBeat adds: HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market phones under the storied Nokia brand, is planning to announce four…

ZDNet summarizes some of the surprises in this year’s poll on LinuxQuestions, “one of the largest Linux groups with 550,000 member”. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The winner for the most popular desktop distribution? Slackware…! Yes, one of the…