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When Apple and Samsung fight, everyone wins

Both Samsung and Apple are victors, maintaining a strong focus now on quality while keeping an eye on what may be next

5 more ways your ISP is screwing you

Not a cord cutter yet? Then you can probably relate to at least a few of these rip-offs

Facebook taps deep learning for customized feeds

The social network does machine learning one better, applying advanced computer learning techniques to cater to users' interests

Move fast without breaking things: how hybrid infrastructure curbs risk

3 new programming languages: What their creators say

Developers shed light on the urge to create new tools--in this case the emerging languages Coconut, Crystal, and Oden

Facebook rocks an open source storage engine for MySQL

Facebook's speedy and compact RocksDB key-value store for MySQL is now open source, but watch out for its limited feature set

The 8 fallacies of distributed computing are becoming irrelevant

Thanks to modern computing, the 8 fallacies of distributed computing are being rendered obsolete

3 new programming languages: What their creators say

Developers of emerging programming languages shed light on the urge to create new tools

How to turn on HTTPS company-wide in one swoop

The GSA's effort to get all federal websites and services to use HTTPS reveals some points to keep in mind for your own switchover

Lenovo will ditch hard keyboards in planned Chromebook and 2-in-1s

Lenovo will release a Chromebook and a line of 2-in-1 Yoga Books with a touch panel instead of a hard keyboard