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Despite all the promise of algorithms, the technology is the smallest part of a social network.
'Free as in mattress' is a useful metaphor for both creating and consuming open source.
Microsoft's latest devices let you change out their storage. How easy is it?
Cameras that promise to take all your photos might be a useful tool, or they could alter our memories in ways we don't yet realise.
Netgear's Insight is a plug-and-play network management environment.
If AI-generated writing becomes indistinguishable from human writing, we'll still need to check it carefully enough to see the mistakes.
Our local phone network infrastructure is aging badly. It's time to add some wireless backup.
Designing for the usual cloud workloads isn't the same as designing for high performance computing: Azure is trying to achieve both.
Making solar panels more efficiently and using much less water is part of greening the cloud.
Internet Explorer has long been the way to view Outlook email in a browser. But now it's going away, so what should you do?
The breadth and longevity of Windows - and of PCs in general - deserves more recognition.
Industry clouds like healthcare and retail are there for Microsoft partners to build services on top of.
Apple's HomeKit may be more privacy focused than Amazon or Google's alternatives, but how can you get it to support more devices?
Mainly that the new Surface Pro has security features on by default even though it isn't a Secured-core PC
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Saying goodbye to Internet Explorer might be more complicated than you realise
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