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FRANKFURT, GERMANY—The cars we drive are increasingly defined as much by the software they run as their engines or chassis. It started slowly. Discrete electronic control units started to appear under the hood, controlling fuel management or anti-lock brakes. New functions required new code, run on new

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday told party workers at a meeting of senior party leaders that they have to interact with people and issues from the ground and not just social media. “We must have a concrete agitational agenda on issues of pressing concern to

As hardware makers continue to work on ways of making wide-scale quantum computing a reality, a startup out of Australia that is building software to help reduce noise and errors on quantum computing machines has raised a round of funding to fuel its U.S. expansion. Q-CTRL is designing

It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks with a good story, even if those businesses lose money. But as Warren Buffett has mused, ‘If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and

If you’re a freelance writer, you already know that you need the best tools and software to help you succeed in your craft. We’re talking about tools that can help streamline day to day work, as well as save time and money. That way, you can do

US Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the employment of web developers will grow by 15 percent by 2026. The percentage is much higher than the average of other occupations. Revolutionized digital technology and marketing are the important reasons that have led to an increase in

Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world’s first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists.

Foxit Software, the company behind PDF reader Foxit Reader and PDF editor PhantomPDF, is forcing users to reset their password after it suffered a data breach. The software developer has not revealed a great deal about the nature of the security incident, and has been somewhat vague about when it took

To better manage your employees you need to have good human resources (HR) software. The best out there will cover all aspects for you, from tracking applicants to following through the hiring process, as well as being able to organize and schedule training, payrolls, taxes, and benefits.

Under increased pressure from outside critics and hostile adversaries, The New York Times is getting more serious about the damage social media can have on the paper. In an internal email to staff this week, reviewed by The Daily Beast, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said that the paper would not be