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Time to Change a Diaper or Car Tire? Futuristic Fabrics Will Let You Know

A new nonprofit will seek to speed the arrival of next-generation fabrics that can store energy, control their own temperature, change color and behave like computer sensors. MIT professor Yoel Fink, who is leading the effort, envisions the creation of an entire new industry: textiles for the

Microsoft boasts that Edge is the browser to use if you want security

Web browser security is a major concern – with plenty of infections occurring due to careless surfing or vulnerabilities in add-ons – so it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft has been boasting because it believes the new Edge browser is doing particularly well on this front.

Intel’s Broadwell Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips: So what’s in it for you, smartie-pants coders

Intel today officially pulls the wraps off its mildly delayed Xeon E5 v4 server processors. These chips follow up 2014’s Xeon E5 v3 parts, which used a 22nm process size and the Haswellmicro-architecture. Intel shrunk Haswell to 14nm, and after some tinkering, codenamed the resulting design Broadwell.

If You Don’t Know ‘UX’ You’re Overdue to Learn About It

Not too long ago, designing an appealing, functional, easy-to-use website was considered art. Or alchemy. It was a dark art. The availability of do-it-yourself web design tools and fast, inexpensive web design services have made getting a good website less dark and less mysterious. But the evolution

Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account

Facebook is working on a new tool to help stem one source of harassment on its platform. The social network is testing a new feature that will automatically alert you if it detects another user is impersonating your account by using your name and profile photo. When

Instagram changes: What is about to happen to app’s feed, and why everyone wants you to turn on mobile notifications

Instagram’s feed is about to completely change. But there’s no reason to panic, or actually do anything at all. The site has announced that it will introduce an “algorithmic timeline” rather than sorting its posts chronologically. Instagram announced the change weeks ago, but a rumour just caught

The 10 Windows group policy settings you need to get right

One of the most common methods to configure an office full of Microsoft Windows computers is with group policy. For the most part, group policies are settings pushed into a computer’s registry to configure security settings and other operational behaviors. Group policies can be pushed down from