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• Why you want Google's Allo

  24-09-2016 13:00
  
  Should you get Google's Allo? The answer is: Yes!
  As a messaging app, Google's new Allo isn't great. Specifically, it's functionally indistinguishable from any number of apps that have been around for years.
  But there's one reason why you should want to use Allo every day: artificial intelligence.
  There are dozens of messaging apps, and each has its own unique list of features. For example, iPhone users may feel compelled to choose between Apple's iMessage, which recently gained the ability to
  
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• Companies say IoT matters but don't agree how to secure it

  24-09-2016 02:34
  
  A majority of enterprises say the internet of things is strategic to their business, but most still take a piecemeal approach to IoT security.
  Those results from a global IDC survey conducted in July and August reveal both the promise and the growing pains of IoT, a set of technologies that may help many industries but can’t simply be plugged in. The 27-country survey had more than 4,500 respondents, all from organizations with 100 or more employees.
  For 56 percent of enterprises, IoT is
  
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• A robot fish is helping the Navy improve underwater movement

  24-09-2016 00:39
  
  Oscar Curet is an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University. For the past couple of years, he's studied the movement of the Knifefish, an animal native to the Amazon River, that uses a long ribbon fin to propel itself through the water and navigate its complex environment. 
  "As a engineer, we try to solve problems, and nature has solved some of the problems that we are facing, and one of them is mobility," Curet said.
  Curet, along with other researchers from Florida Atlantic Unive
  
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• Cisco, IBM may be interested in buying Imperva

  24-09-2016 00:08
  
  Security vendor Imperva is shopping itself around and may be attractive to the likes of Cisco and IBM, according to Bloomberg.
  The Motley Fool reports that Imperva’s stock rose 20% today after Bloomberg’s report, which the Fool notes could actually drive buyers away because it would mean a more costly deal.
  Bloomberg named a number of other possible buyers including Forecpoint (owned by Raytheon and Vista Equity Partners), Akamai and Fortinet.To read this article in full or to leave
  
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• State of the CIO 2017

  24-09-2016 00:03
  
  For those of you familiar with our flagship State of the CIO report, this is the time of year when we field the survey that we use to collect the data from which we glean the insights for our annual look at the status of IT leaders in the business world.
  We do a lot of research here at CIO, but perhaps none of our projects is as widely anticipated as State of the CIO. The results of this survey give us, our readers and the vendor community a gauge of what has changed over the past 12 months and
  
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