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Researchers build a microprocessor from flexible materials

It's a one-bit microprocessor with four instructions, but it could open the way to more flexible electronics

Microsoft fine-tunes WebAssembly for Edge browser

By tweaking when the Chakra JavaScript engine parses WebAssembly functions, the Edge browser provides faster web app performance

Docker’s Moby cast in same mold as Fedora’s Red Hat

Both Fedora and Moby provide proving grounds or staging areas for future innovations contributed from the community

Apple’s Mac Pro gets crushed on features by new HP Zbook laptops

The Zbook mobile workstations outclass the aging Mac Pro on many features

FCC ends price caps on many business data lines

The move to deregulate business data services could lead to price hikes for small businesses, critics say

Trump’s H-1B executive order is PR, not policy

President Trump scores a photo op, but the real fight over H-1B visa reform has yet to begin

Selling Disruption: How VARs Can Change the Datacenter

Flaws let attackers hijack multiple Linksys router models

Attackers could exploit the vulnerabilities to crash routers, extract sensitive information from them or take them over

Fog is coming, and that’s good news for the cloud

Fog allows data to be processed, analyzed, stored, and acted upon more quickly through the use of more local devices. This leaves the cloud free to do what it does best.

Python power comes to SQL Server 2017

The next version of Microsoft's flagship database will run Python scripts, with full access to Python third-party libraries, as native T-SQL stored procedures