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Portland's move from hand-counting cyclists to tracking traffic in the cloud

Dylan Rivera, PIO for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, explains how Portland, Oregon will soon use GE's cloud platform to collect better data about traffic patterns.

30 minutes ago by Stephanie Condon in Smart Cities

Bezos and partners pick CEO for joint healthcare venture

Surgeon and writer Dr. Atul Gawande will take the helm of the healthcare venture on July 9 in its newly minted Boston headquarters.

1 hour ago by Natalie Gagliordi in Tech Industry

Get a lifetime subscription to Bookafy appointment scheduling for $39

This versatile scheduling service normally costs $84 per YEAR!

1 hour ago by Rick Broida in Productivity

Newt Mobile: The most brilliant wireless company you've never heard of

The salesmanship is breathless. The promises are enormous. What could be better than this?

1 hour ago by Chris Matyszczyk in Tech & Work

Microsoft buys machine-learning startup Bonsai

Microsoft is buying one of the AI companies in which it has invested: Bonsai, a deep reinforcement platform for enterprise/industrial applications.

1 hour ago by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Autodesk, AWS team up to promote new AI-enabled design technology

The two companies are giving new Autodesk Fusion 360 Ultimate subscribers cloud credits to try generative design, which leverages cloud computing and machine learning.

1 hour ago by Stephanie Condon in Innovation

Air-gapping the planet: How to travel safely in digitally scary places

If you're considering traveling to one of the many countries that has a dubious relationship with digital privacy, you'll need to protect yourself. While the standard advice is a VPN, David Gewirtz takes you a few steps deeper into the murky cloak and dagger world of digital tradecraft.

2 hours ago by David Gewirtz in Security

BlackBerry KEY2 first look: Improved physical QWERTY for those who can't give them up

Business users adored their hardware QWERTY BlackBerry keyboards, but most of the world has moved to on-screen keyboards over the last decade. The KEY2 provides the best physical keyboard, but that comes with some compromises.

3 hours ago by Matthew Miller in Mobility

The dumbest passwords people still use

Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger

4 hours ago by Leslie Gornstein in Cloud

Teradata sues SAP, alleges stolen trade secrets and HANA built on its IP

Teradata said SAP built HANA using its intellectual property and now is trying to block out its customers from accessing their ERP data.

5 hours ago by Larry Dignan in Enterprise Software

EPYC: One year on and AMD has transformed the server landscape

AMD did something that was long overdue -- it upended a stagnant and complacent server market, and all in a year.

6 hours ago by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in Processors

Is cloud computing being politicized?

Technology giants are being scrutinized because the US government uses their cloud services.

8 hours ago by ZDNet Editors in Government : US

Take a 3D virtual tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's winter retreat

The immersive experience, which is like a turbo charged Street View, offers a new kind of preservation in virtual reality.

9 hours ago by Greg Nichols in Virtual Reality

11 delivery robots that will soon carry food and packages to your door

Sorry delivery dude, but a recent Amazon patent kicked the race for autonomous last-mile delivery into high gear.

9 hours ago by Greg Nichols in Robotics

Hands-on with the Apeman C860 dash cam: A nice-to-have camera in low-light conditions

9 hours ago by Eileen Brown in Hardware