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Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M

Execs under CEO Tim Cook receive uniform stock grants, part of Apple's 'internal equity' compensation philosophy

Google teams with Oxford on artificial intelligence

AI technology could be a boost to Google search, robotics, Maps, and Google+

Microsoft Q1 sales jump, but Nokia drags down earnings

The company exceeded Wall Street expectations for both sales and earnings in the first quarter of fiscal 2015

Nginx has big plans for JavaScript

The company plans to let you use JavaScript as an application language in its eponymous Web server

Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign

FBI Director Comey says smartphone encryption puts law enforcement in peril. Too bad he doesn't seem to understand technology

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BB-6 Fibre Channel Standard Improves Data Center Storage Networks

FC-BB-6 based converged storage area networks will result in more efficient network designs for converged Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks thereby resulting in higher performance and lower cost networks.

HP gives Moonshot server its first Xeon chip

The Moonshot ProLiant m710 uses a novel design to reduce energy and space requirements

Windows 10 build 9860 gets two rapid-fire patches, KB 3008956 and KB 3010668

Microsoft is advising users to install the updates to fix problems with missing text and a power/sleep issue

Apple to stop SSL 3.0 support for push notifications next week

Apple is one of many companies moving to shut down the vulnerable encryption protocol for good