From PC World: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying SGI in a $275 million deal that it hopes will give it a major boost in big-data analytics and high-performance computing.

It's the latest surprise development at HPE, which has continued to make big changes since it was formed in the break-up of...

From CNET: Samsung's mobile chief is singing the praises of the iris-scanning technology built into the upcoming Galaxy Note 7.

"Iris-scanning is the safest security technology at the current level," Koh Dong-jin said, according to a story in the Korea Herald on Thursday. That's because within 18...

From InfoWorld: It's raining patches. This week we've seen a barrage of updates to Windows 10 (pick your flavor), nine security bulletins, 28 security patches for Office, and a killer patch for Windows Journal on Win10. Combined that with last week's 40-odd Office non-security patches, which won't...

From CNET: Apple is a mysterious beast at the best of times, but one way to figure out what it might be working on next is to trawl through its patent applications.

An application published on Thursday showed that the company wants to lock down ownership of a new wearable health device that could...

From PC World: HP wants to add augmented reality to its Elite x3 smartphone, and it's looking at Microsoft's HoloLens as one way to do it.

The Elite x3, which runs Windows 10 Mobile, was scheduled to ship last month starting at US$699.99 but has been delayed. HP believes the smartphone has the...

From CNET: The Korean electronics giant on Wednesday said the V20 -- its next-generation flagship phone -- will feature a 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC (digital to analog converter) in what LG called an industry first. LG said the DAC produces a crisp and clear sound reproduction that reduces ambient noise...

From InfoWorld: A security firm is offering up to $500,000 for information on zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS, surpassing Apple's bug bounty just days after it was announced.

On Tuesday, Texas-based Exodus Intelligence said it will give between $5,000 and $500,000 for zero-day vulnerabilities...

From CNET: Sony has officially invited journalists to a press conference in New York City on September 7, where an upgraded PlayStation 4 is almost certain to be the big reveal.

The emailed invitations come one day after reports hit the web that the gaming giant was locking in to the first...

From PC World: There aren't many shockers when it comes to storage capacity, but try this one on for size: Seagate has announced a 60TB SSD that may ship as early as next year.

Seagate showed the drive at the Flash Memory Summit in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. It called it a "technology...

From CNET: Google plans to begin pushing Adobe Flash Player closer to its inexorable grave at the end of the year with a new version of its Chrome web browser.

Chrome 55, which the web giant plans to release in December, will replace Flash with HTML5, Google said on Monday. Noting that the browser...