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Kutztown High School students will be issued new Apple laptops and the district's computer labs will be updated under an agreement recently approved by the school board.

Norbert Wiener, who once taught philosophy at Harvard, was one of the first visionaries to ponder and warn of the impact of 'thinking' machines on future societies.

Several up-and-coming companies -- including Udemy, Udacity, Khan Academy, 2U and Coursera -- are offering ways for people to educate themselves online, with many courses geared toward practical knowledge and skills for a fast-changing and often forbidding economic landscape.

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man they say stole six desktop computers from the Walmart in Evans.

An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros .

Peter Mason, Nigel Evison, Dave Cotterell, Matt Wingfield, Sally Steel, Karim Derrick, Dawn Salt, Jeremy Homan-Green, Jo Butler, Andy Cotterell and Anne Dryden with a board advertising one of their product lines A Sherston business is celebrating 30 years of providing schools and nurseries across the globe with innovative educational technology ... (more)

The move into smartphones, tablets, TVs and home entertainment systems is already paying off, as Lenovo reported a 90 per cent jump in quarterly profit.

Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems.

The 24/7 PC Guard 365 Plan features 100 percent remote PC support for one full year for up to three personal computers.

Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year.

Need more proof that the world is changing? Last week, the president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Michael Powell, told the Senate that "the largest subscription video provider in the country today is Netflix." If you haven't paid attention to the entertainment landscape for the last few years, Netflix is an online ... (more)

Like most people, I carry a digital camera with me everywhere I go. But of course, it's not a stand-alone camera; it's built into my smartphone.

More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed.

ENP Newswire - 24 May 2013 Release date- 23052013 - Fremont, CA. - SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UV 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones.

Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts predict that this year's season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.

Online retail titan Amazon announced Thursday it is expanding sales of its Kindle tablet computers to "over 170 countries and territories around the world," and its Appstore in nearly 200 countries.

Human interaction with computers could improve with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, which will be better at recognizing gestures, motion and voice.