Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications system, or, more specifically speaking, a computer system — including all hardware, software, and peripheral equipment — operated by a limited group of IT users.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stopped at nothing in a bid to strategically win over University of Texas law professor Henry Hu to act as the head the first new division created at the agency in almost 40 years. However, the lengths the SEC sought fit to go to are now being questioned. Hu…
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Co-founder of Iodine and author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine” Thomas Goetz takes the TEDMED stage to discuss the revolution of medical data. Your medical chart can be hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if…
Things are looking up for USA factories, and the nation’s manufacturing industry as a whole. Casually exceeding expectations, a larger-than-anticipated number of orders placed for computers and machinery specifically across the USA recently indicates that business may finally be loosening their purse strings post the 2008 financial crisis. Exports to emerging economies like China, investing…
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In this fascinating Ted Talk, Ralph Langner – control system security consultant – provides his audience with glimpse into the exciting world of cyber-forensics. Having received worldwide recognition for cracking the mystery of the 2010 Stuxnet malware worm, Ralph Langner explains how he and his team not only helped to identify this cyber weapon’s final…
It seems not even the president is able to stop savvy techies from accessing the internet these days. According to Jeff Moss, a communications adviser to America’s Department of Homeland Security, politically motivated shutdowns of the internet in countries such as Egypt, Libya and elsewhere are being circumvented by tech-savvy revolutionaries, with the help of…
A summary of a new report on how fighting air pollution can help climate change is soon to be presented to ministers attending the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report is said to feature a powerful argument encouraging certain action on two short-lived climate “forcings”, or, factors that change the…
