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Article | 6/03/2012 In Pictures: The story of the Picasso and a 1.5 ton robot

Spanish telecom firm, Telefonica, built a robot to digitally image and look for problems with Pablo Picasso's famous 'Guernica' painting.

Article | 29/02/2012 In Pictures: 12 seriously cool “toys” for big boys and girls

Big Boys Toys exhibition tempts your inner child

Article | 23/02/2012 In Pictures: Ultimate Man vs. Computer - Garry Kasparov, Deep Blue and the Internet

Garry Kasparov battled IBM's Deep Blue 16 years ago in February, but that was just the beginning

Article | 16/02/2012 In Pictures: ENIAC, world's first digital computer, turns 66

Massive machine was world's first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer ... here's a pictorial tribute

Article | 5/10/2011 In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles

At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security.

Article | 8/09/2011 IBM, 3M team to glue together high-powered silicon bricks for servers, smartphones

IBM and 3M today said they will jointly develop a new line of adhesives they hope will let them make it possible to build commercial microprocessors c...

Article | 9/08/2011 Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT

How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds ha...

Article | 4/06/2011 Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement

When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. ...

Article | 3/06/2011 IRS: Top 10 things every taxpayer should know about identity theft

As part of a look at the impact of identity theft and the Internal Revenue Service, watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued the IRS' ...

Article | 12/05/2011 Smartphones attract organized, international, profit-driven scammers

The mobile computing technology explosion has brought out seriously organized, international and profit-driven cybercriminals.

Article | 29/04/2011 The Sony Playstation breach notification letter that broke 77 million hearts

The Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 million peo...

Article | 27/04/2011 CIA opens spy chest to reveal WWI-era secret writing techniques

The CIA has declassified the six oldest documents in its secret vault revealing a host of invisible ink recipes and one way to open sealed envelopes w...

Article | 16/04/2011 Epsilon breach grabs US Senate attention

Seems that the recent Epsilon breach has rankled a couple members of the U.S. Senate who are now pushing for further investigation into the irritating...

Article | 14/04/2011 US takes out Coreflood botnet

The US Department of Justice and FBI said today they had filed a civil complaint, executed criminal warrants, and a temporary restraining order as par...

Article | 12/03/2011 IBM at 100: Big Blue brings on Hollywood to tell its birthday story

IBM wants to see itself through the fisheye lens as it turns 100.