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• 3 new programming languages: What their creators say

  Developers of emerging programming languages shed light on the urge to create new tools

• Google Apps training courses help IT pros build skills

  IT professionals, educators and users can all benefit from this set of online Google Apps training courses and certification programs.

• Google education guru: Classroom laptop bans make no sense

  Google Chief Education Evangelist calls on higher ed to rethink how they help students learn in a fast-changing technological and economic world

• Top 6 SEO ranking factors of 2016

  Google regularly makes major updates to it algorithms, and its SEO ranking factors have changed dramatically during the past years. A group of SEO experts and search pros share insights on how SEO rank has evolved and offer advice on how to keep up.

• Black Hat: 9 free security tools for defense & attacking

  When Black Hat convenes next week in Las Vegas, it will be a rich environment for gathering tools that can be used to tighten security but also - in the wrong hands - to carry out exploits.

• Land O’Lakes spreads to the cloud with Microsoft (and Google)

  Land O’Lakes CIO says no single cloud provider can meet all of the company’s requirements. Google and Microsoft are both in the mix, but the agricultural cooperative still isn’t ready for a full migration.

• Taking a closer look at bots from Apple, Facebook and Google

  'Bots' are hot today, and popular tech companies including Apple, Facebook and Google all take dramatically different approaches to bot technology. Here's what bots from these consumer giants could mean to enterprises.

• 8 things you need to know about Google AMP

  The next big thing in SEO is AMP, or Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages. Search pros break down AMP and share insights on what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.

• America’s data centers are getting a lot more efficient

  U.S. data centers have used about the same amount of energy annually over the past five years or so, despite substantial growth in the sector, according to a new report published by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• All-female team to lead Association for Computing Machinery

  Against a backdrop of an IT industry pushing hard to more fairly represent women in leadership positions, the Association for Computing Machinery has announced that an all-female board has been elected to head up the society.

• Can Google's virtual assistant find a home in enterprise?

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai credits Amazon with paving an early path for consumer virtual assistants, but the company's first response to Amazon Echo, Google Home, could eventually play an important role in the business world.

• Skeptics question Android on Chromebooks

  Android apps will run unaltered, but developers may also choose to optimize their wares to, for example, offer multiple window sizes.

• Google to shutter SSLv3, RC4 from SMTP servers, Gmail

  Google Apps customers who still rely on SSLv3 or RC4 need to update to TLS or face the prospect of no longer being able to send out mail

• 6 Google Analytics tips to boost your online sales

  Google Analytics can tell you virtually anything you want to know about your site visitors, organic SEO efforts and pay-per-click ad campaigns. A set of digital marketing and online metrics experts shares advice on how to use GA data to increase sales and boost revenue.

• Top drone startups find venture capital flying their way

  With unmanned aerial vehicles (i.e., drones) here to stay, entrepreneurs are pouncing on the opportunity to safeguard people from having these flying machines drop in unexpectedly and venture capitalists are buying in.