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First Look: Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points show promise

We review five Wave 2 wireless access points, comparing prices and features, looking at usability and doing some performance testing. The products in this review are: Amped Wireless AC1300, ASUS EA-AC87, Cisco Aironet 1852i, Extreme...

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REVIEW: Early Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points show promise

There’s a lot to like about Wave 2 802.11ac products, including theoretically faster speeds than Wave 1 products and cool new features, such as multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO.) In this review, we look at five Wave 2 wireless access points,...

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10 hot chatbot builders

Chatbots are taking over! These platforms are where your ‘bot gets started.

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ezTalks Onion: all-in-one videoconferencing is under-baked

I had a chance to get an early version (really early, as there is still some rough edges to be worked out) of the ezTalks Onion. The device (I don’t know why they call it the Onion – it doesn’t look like one particularly) is an...

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5 rock-solid Linux distros for developers

Developers want power, flexibility, stability, and ease, and these Linux distributions have it all

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Inside 3 top threat hunting tools

Endgame, Sqrrl, Infocyte allow security pros to hunt down and kill advanced persistent threats (APT).

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Review: Threat hunting turns the tables on attackers

For this review, we tested threat hunting systems from Sqrrl, Endgame and Infocyte. Each program was tested in a large demo environment seeded with realistic APT threats which had bypassed perimeter defenses and were hiding somewhere...

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New OS X Tools for Photographers

The OS X apps in this review make creating the perfect photo a whole lot easier

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Review: Google Home invades my home

The voice-controlled AI assistant sometimes listens to what I'm asking.

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MXNet review: Amazon's scalable deep learning

Amazon’s favorite deep learning framework scales across multiple GPUs and hosts, but it's rough around the edges

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The Ring Stick Up Cam. Don't bother.

Ring's new Stick Up Cam isn't worth buying and technical and support problems with the original Ring doorbell have led me to downgrade the doorbell's original rating

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Review: Microsoft Teams tries to do Slack one better

Microsoft Teams, a new group collaboration tool, promises a new level of productivity for Office. But is it good enough to beat competitors like Slack?

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IBM MaaS360 delivers powerful, easy-to-use mobility management

Fiberlink MaaS360 won our Clear Choice test of mobile device management tools in 2011. IBM bought Fiberlink in 2013, so we wanted to see how the product has evolved over the years.

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Nerd Alert! You need a Christmas tree for your car!

The Christmas Car Tree is exactly what you might think: A Christmas Tree for your car,

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Petcube Play: An in-home camera for watching your pets do stuff

Device lets you play with pets while you're not at home. If your pets are into that kind of thing.

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8 free virtual appliances you’ll love

These prebuilt LAMP, MEAN, ELK, WordPress, and other handy stacks amount to gain without pain for developers and admins

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First look: Google jumps into crowded wireless mesh market

Google Wifi offers easy setup, Internet pausing and whole-home coverage.

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4 top disaster recovery packages compared

There’s arguably no more important IT task than making sure business systems and data can be restored after a disaster. So we asked system administrators to identify the best features — and what’s missing — in four leading software...

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