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Microsoft lays off employees for software

Microsoft is laying off thousands of employees in a shake-up aimed at selling more subscriptions to software applications that can be used on internet-connected devices. Most of the people losing their jobs work in sales and are located outside the US. The Washington-based company confirmed it began

Ukrainian police seize software company’s servers

Col. Serhiy Demydiuk, the head of Ukraine’s national CyberPolice unit talks during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, July 3, 2017.  (AP) KIEV, Ukraine –  Ukraine’s national cybercrime unit seized servers belonging to a small company at the center of

Traders in Delhi experience GST software, billing headache

Representative image. NEW DELHI: Traders across the city experienced the birth pangs of GST on Saturday. They were confused about the billing system and the software to be used. Some couldn’t install it and others complained that they had not been able to figure it out. And,

Tax software blamed for cyber-attack spread

A global cyber-attack that affected companies around the world may have started via corrupted updates on a piece of accountancy software. Fingers are increasingly pointing to a piece of Ukrainian tax-filing software, MEDoc, as the source of the infection, although the company denies it. Malware generally infiltrates

Britain’s Big New Warship Still Runs Windows XP

HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy’s newest vessel and the largest one ever built in the United Kingdom, is an impressive ship. Nine hundred and nineteen feet long with a crew of 1,600, the ship can carry up to 40 aircraft. Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship,

Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Publishes Software Release Candidate

The developers behind the open-source Hyperledger Fabric blockchain project have issued the software’s official release candidate. Announced yesterday via the project’s public mailing list, the release effectively moves the software, one of several separate enterprise distributed ledger code bases being incubated under the Hyperledger umbrella, one step closer

IOS 11 BETA: SHOULD YOU DOWNLOAD APPLE’S NEW SOFTWARE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD?

Most of the new features are on the iPad, and it can be the perfect device for testing out the update / REUTERS/Stephen Lam Apple has released its iOS 11 beta to the public. That means everyone can get hold of the new software, months before it’s

Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software

Early in 2015, artificial-intelligence researchers at Google created an obscure piece of software called ­TensorFlow. Two years later the tool, which is used in building machine-­learning software, underpins many future ambitions of Google and its parent company, Alphabet. TensorFlow makes it much easier for the company’s engineers

Indian-origin UK graduate wins £2 million software deal

Jawanda did his BSc in information technology management for business at Birmingham City University.(File photo) Hardeep ‘Harry’ Jawanda, a former England hockey player, has secured a £2 million deal with a global education technology firm that will see his software spread across the UK and Australasia. Jawanda,

Tesla Loses Autopilot Software Chief After Less Than Six Months

Tesla Motor Inc. associates work on the Model S electric car at the company’s factory in Fremont, California. Tesla Inc.’s team developing self-driving car capabilities lost a top engineer hired less than six months ago from Apple Inc., adding to a spate of executive shakeups at tech