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  Google's Neural Machine Translation engine learns three new languages, with more on the way

  Google is expanding its contextual Neural Machine Translation to Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese, with more languages on the way.

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  Google promotes Keep note app to a G Suite core service, much to our relief

  As a new core component of G Suite, Google integrates Keep into Docs, letting you edit and create notes without launching a separate window.

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  Aurora HDR 2017 first look: Macphun's flashy editor turbocharges your photos

  Batch processing, combined with new tools and presets, promise to make your pictures sizzle.

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  AI looms large in Google's view of the future

  Google's Founders' Letter was an exception this year for the fact that it was penned by Google CEO Sundar Pichai rather than Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

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  Oracle releases 136 security patches for wide range of products

  Oracle's latest quarterly security update contains 136 fixes for flaws in a wide range of products including Oracle Database Server, E-Business Suite, Fusion Middleware, Oracle Sun Products, Java and MySQL.

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  Make Windows Media Player the default audio player in Windows 8

  Like many Windows 8 users, I spend most of my time using Desktop mode, which affords me a more Windows 7-like experience.

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  Google Earth power user tips

  Google Earth users can do more than just fly around a virtual globe. The free mapping application can display real-time weather, help compose photographs and measure distances much more easily than its Maps cousin.

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  Saving Google Maps destinations for easy navigation

  Saving a destination in Google Maps makes it easier to navigate to and also lessens the chance for error when entering or trying to remember an address.

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  How to make iOS autocorrect work for you

  Autocorrect is a boon from the computer gods for anyone engaged in tiny-screen typing, but it's also the bane of every iPhone and iPad user's existence. You can accept the gift and avoid the grief by paying attention to a few details.

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  How to set up speech and emoji on your iPhone

  Your iPhone and iPad can speak aloud any text you can select. In this video, I'll show you how to enable that feature, and how to type emoji symbols in your text, too.

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  ​The evolving category of business management software

  The category of business management software, while evolving, is cluttered. The term ‘business management system’ has been a catch all term to cover a multitude of business technology solutions.

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  GitHub's new features aim for business and open-source users

  GitHub, the popular code repository service, has to serve two masters. It's well-known for hosting popular open-source projects, but it's also working to acquire more large and small business users to privately store and manage their proprietary code...

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  You’ve been hit with ransomware. Now what?

  When their data has been stolen, and is being held hostage, companies are increasingly caving in to cybercriminal demands for payment. Short of paying up, the best defense is a good offense.

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  5 things to expect from Microsoft's big developer conference

  Microsoft executives will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco on Wednesday for the first of two keynote addresses to the company's big Build developer conference. Here are five key things to expect from the next two days of Microsoft anno...

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  Microsoft hides $US43bn Apple-esque business in plain sight

  Microsoft has created a $43 billion business, a potential Apple-and-OEM-esque company-within-a-company, that could be used to take up the slack if some of its computer-making partners falter.

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  IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence

  In the second half of 2013, the advancement of security breaches across all industries continued to rise. Within this report, we’ll explain how more than half a billion records of personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, emails, credit card numbers and passwords were leaked in 2013 - and how these security incidents show no signs of stopping.

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  Vendor Landscape: Backup Software for Heterogeneous Environments

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  Faster Reporting Whist Enhancing Data Centre Visibility

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  Agile Software Development and the Factors that Drive Success