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Jack Wallen walks you through the process of connecting the DBeaver GUI tool to a remote MySQL server.

Satellite hardware and network builder Gilat of Israel, seeking to interest cellular operators in expanding their reach by satellite, is pressing forward with a strategy of building the entire network for them in exchang...

With the release of LibreOffice 6 comes a much more user-friendly means of digitally signing a document. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Intel has finally added an entry-level 8th Generation processor to its line-up, opening the door to more affordable new laptops and 2-in-1s with the latest silicon. The chip-maker’s 8th Gen Core i5 and Core i7 processo...

Fujifilm has dropped a hefty gauntlet on rivals with the X-H1, its new flagship APS-C mirrorless that excels at both photography and video. It sports a 24.3-megapixel X-Trans CMOS III sensor housed in a body with feature...

The Facebook CEO could sell as much as $13 billion worth over the next 13 months. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started to accelerate his funding of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic investment vehicle...

Legendary investors sells off IBM        

In the past few weeks, the entire information security industry has grown very anxious about Meltdown and Spectre, two classes of exploits that can be used to manipulate vulnerabilities in the way many varieties of moder...

Remember that whole Apple vs. FBI fight from early 2016? The government wanted to force Apple to develop what's essentially a backdoor into iOS that only Apple and/or government officials would control to get into the iP...

Crypto traders might not like it, but there are plenty of reasons to regulate Bitcoin and all its brethren. The nature of digital money gives governments around the world plenty of headaches, and many of them have starte...

Twitter's decision to simply delete the tweets of accounts it says are part of a Russian-linked propaganda bot army has proven to be really short-sighted because, well, it turns out that those tweets are really similar t...

iPad owners can now browse the Sandisk iXpand USB Drive from within the iOS 11 Files app. Here's how. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

A new state of matter makes the sci-fi sword seem possible. It could also give us computers nearly as fast as the speed of light.

New research illuminates aspects of how an early embryo, the product of fertilization of a female egg cell by a male sperm cell, can give rise to all the many cell types of the adult animal.

The homework wars seem to be a hallmark of weekday evenings with school-age kids, and parents are always the ones defeated. As my daughter heads to kindergarten this year, I am dreading this fight. Because there will be ...

Slack had added Edith Cooper, who most recently served as the global head of human capital management at Goldman Sachs, to its board of directors. As Slack prepares “for accelerated growth at scale,” Slack CEO Stewar...

Telegram users are being fooled into running malicious Javascript disguised as image files thanks to a unicode text reversal trick.

Fluctuations in female sex hormones could play a role in the development of allergies and asthma, a major review of evidence suggests.

How Starfighters went from an aviation demo group to a permanent installation at NASA, and why they're betting big on civilian spaceflight.

A handful of users have now complained about Facebook apparently exploiting their two-factor authentication phone numbers to send spam notifications, but it gets worse than that.

The human body can become damaged in a seemingly endless number of ways, but doctors have long known that brain trauma is particularly dire. It is not only devastating, but also hard to detect. Diagnosing an individual w...

Kepler is the gift that keeps on giving. After suffering a major malfunction five years ago, the rejiggered space-based telescope continues to churn away, scanning the heavens for signs of distant worlds. An internationa...