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Online commerce giant eBay on Thursday announced that it will expand its flagship data center in Utah and use renewable energy to power the addition. This expansion will use 30 Bloom Energy fuel cells and will be the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the United States. The fuel cells wil...

This summer, Tesla is rolling out its luxury electric car, the Model S, amid much acclaim. "The design and efficiency of the Model S are unparalleled," said electric vehicle consultant Shannon Arvizu. "It's a stunningly beautiful car that is incredibly affordable to operate and has 'oh-my-god' wow p...

Google and Apple are bent on a mission to provide the world -- or at least users of their respective technologies -- with digital images of every place on this planet. Using their systems is the only way many people can see for themselves what everyday life is like in faraway places. However, as the...

Bombarded by ads for cable and satellite TV packages, or seductive programming bundles offered by Internet service providers and phone companies, it may be easy to forget that it's possible to pick up much of that programming via a sub-hundred dollar indoor antenna reminiscent of the rabbit-ear da...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a plethora of new features for app developers in Windows Phone 8, its next mobile operating system. Windows Phone 8 will share a core with Windows 8, meaning app devs can write one app and have it run across mobile devices as well as desktops supporting Windows 8. Wi...

HP announced on Monday that it will use an Intel Atom chip code-named "Centerton" in the first production server in its Project Moonshot program. This server is code-named "Gemini." Moonshot is aimed at creating servers with low power requirements that will cut data-center energy and space requireme...

Sharp introduced its new 90-inch Aquos LED TV on Tuesday -- what it's calling "the largest TV on the planet." At 4-ft. tall and 6-ft., 8-in. wide, it's sure to dominate the room. Content is displayed at 1080p, the highest resolution available. The TV has a suggested retail price of $10,999.99. It's ...

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Will iPad Scratch the Surface, or Vice Versa?

Despite Android device makers' best efforts, Apple has ruled the tablet market for years with its iPad line. But one of the company's oldest rivals will soon come knocking, and this week it showed off just how it plans to enter the tablet scene. Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will be built w...

Netflix has announced changes to its public API that will prevent developers from accessing information about its customers. As of September 15, users' rental history and information about what they viewed will no longer be included in the API, putting that data out of reach for developers creating ...

Facebook is moving forward with its acquisition of Face.com, reportedly paying between $55 million and $60 million in a mix of cash and stock for the facial recognition technology startup. The Face.com technology could give Facebook users quicker and easier photo-tagging abilities, but it also raise...

Microsoft on Monday announced two Windows tablets in its new Surface line -- one running Windows 8 RT, and one running Windows 8 Professional. The Win 8 RT version will run on an ARM processor, and the Windows 8 Pro version will have a third-generation Intel Core processor. The casing of Microsoft's...

It's a cute little robot learning how to say "green" and "blue." And as part of a major project undertaken by robotics researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, it's also promising to transform perceptions of how robots -- and humans -- learn language. DeeChee, which is built to look, act and ...

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Process Maturity and the Fine Art of Control

If you're in IT and your job involves securing your organizations' infrastructure, you've probably spent a good deal of time thinking through control selection -- in other words, picking the controls that most directly help you accomplish the goal of securing your environment. And you've probably a...

Google announced Monday that it had received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results and YouTube video service during the past six months. Google has characterized this as an "alarming trend." The company also released its twice-yearly Transparency Rep...

IBM's Sequoia supercomputer has headed up the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The list, released on Monday at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, is compiled twice a year. Sequoia has overtaken Fujitsu's K Computer, installed at the RI...


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