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Lenovo introduces new budget laptops

Lenovo is bringing three budget laptops to market in June, including one that can be equipped with Intel’s RealSense 3D camera. The Lenovo Z51 is a 15-inch Windows 8.1 notebook that’s meant to be both a workstation and a home entertainment center, the company said Wednesday. The PC also has …

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Oculus acquires image recognition startup Surreal Vision

Virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR has acquired Surreal Vision, a company developing image recognition technology that can recreate scenes from real life inside simulated 3D environments. The technology could help Oculus to create more varied and realistic virtual environments as the Facebook-owned company prepares to launch its flagship consumer …

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Thieves stole data on 100,000 taxpayers through IRS app

Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” application, a major data breach at the U.S.’s national tax agency. The thieves first stole information including Social Security details, dates of birth and street addresses from an outside, non-IRS source, the government agency said …

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Thieves stole data on 100,000 taxpayers via IRS app

Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” application, a major data breach at the U.S.’s national tax agency. The thieves first stole information including Social Security details, dates of birth and street addresses from an outside, non-IRS source, the government agency said …

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Power problems disrupt Africa’s telecom sector

Rampant power outages are hitting Africa’s telecom sector hard, and are likely to cause aftershocks in related industries. Southern African Development Community (SADC) and West African countries including Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Malawi face an increasing number of power shortages, affecting the ability of businesses to run base stations, …

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Private, insulting tweet gets Italian senator sued

A right-wing senator stands to make legal history in Italy when he becomes the first person to be prosecuted for insulting another person on Twitter. Maurizio Gasparri, a senator with Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative Forza Italia party, is well known for his polemical verve and has earned the title of “cyber-bully” …

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World’s geekiest license plates

Geeky plates The geeky license plates continue to pop up as those who are not afraid to proclaim their nerdiness on their car. Here are the latest and greatest. Send any entries you might have to rfrancis@nww.com. RELATED: The world’s geekiest license plates To read this article in full or …

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HP buying SDN company for NFV

HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ConteXtream develops an SDN controller for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), software-based services that replace hardware-dependent Layer 4-7 functions, like load balancing and firewalls. ConteXtream’s products …

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IT workers win key ruling against visa-using firm

A discrimination lawsuit alleging that Infosys favored “South Asian” workers over all others will not be dismissed, a federal judge has ruled. Infosys had asked for a dismissal of the case brought by four of its IT workers. U.S. District Court Judge Pamela Pepper granted some of what Infosys was …

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Microsoft green-lights Cortana on rivals iOS and Android

Microsoft today made official what had been rumored two months ago: It will release Android and iOS mobile apps that feature Cortana, the Redmond, Wash. company’s intelligent assistant. “It all starts with the big picture,” Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, argued in a Tuesday interview. “Microsoft …

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Purported Skylake release schedule leaked

A Chinese web site has posted what it claims is the launch schedule for Intel’s upcoming new generation of CPUs, the 14-nanometer Skylake processor. If this list is accurate, it will be a much more steady rollout than the chaotic Broadwell release, which came later than planned and forced Intel …

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Italian court bans UberPop, threatens fine

A judge in Milan banned UberPop in Italy on Tuesday, ruling that the car-hailing service constitutes unfair competition for taxi drivers. Judge Claudio Marangoni said a complaint lodged by taxi drivers’ associations and trade unions was well-founded and the UberPop smartphone app linking private drivers with passengers is provoking a …

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Apple Pay’s weakest link

You’re only as secure as your weakest link. That bit of wisdom has hit home for Apple Pay of late. Fraudsters have wasted no time finding and exploiting the mobile payment system’s weak link to their advantage. The weak link is not in the transaction side of things. That part, …

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