Unveiled at its developer conference last year, Google's Project Abacus to "get rid of passwords" is expected to begin seeing real-world tests starting in June. Next month, several large financial institutions are set to begin testing a Trust API (application program interface) that uses machine intelligence for user authentication, Dan Kaufman, director of Google's Advanced Technology and Proj...
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Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company. The transaction creates the industry-leader in the extreme...
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