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Even those who have no interest in obtaining an Alexa-linked device know how Amazon’s smart speaker works.

Analysis: The future will be recorded on your smart speaker (and maybe that's OK)

Amazon's patent application for an always-on feature for Alexa, its popular voice-activated personal assistant, has raised a lot of concern. But the anxiety is much ado about nothing.
What if scammers could learn your password not from a massive cyber attack or taking control of your device, but from listening in as you type?

Hackers could glean your password by listening to how you type on your phone

Malicious actors can decode what a person is typing by using a spying app that can access the smartphone's microphone, according to a new study.
Joe Pascoe, principal engineer at the Mountain Pass Mine, holds some of the powdery concentrate in Mountain Pass, Calif.

Can China choke off U.S. access to 'rare earths' needed for high-tech products?

Mountain Pass -- the only U.S. mine that harvests rare-earth elements, the raw ingredients used to produce high-tech products such as smartphones, wind turbines and electric vehicles -- represents the United States' best hope of weathering any Chinese materials blockade.
Uber is testing restaurant food deliveries by drone. The company’s Uber Eats unit began the tests in San Diego with McDonald’s and plans to expand to other restaurants later this year.

Uber plans to start delivering McDonald's hamburgers by drone this summer

How will Uber's drone delivery service work? After a restaurant loads a meal into a drone and the robot takes to the air, the company's technology will notify a nearby Uber Eats driver at a designated drop-off location. The driver will pick up and deliver the meal to the customer.
“Stranger Things 3: The Game,” a video game based on the popular teen series, will come out on July 4, the same day the third season of the show debuts.
Netflix takes step toward multimedia empire with video games based on its shows
Stranger Things 3: The Game, a title based on the popular teen series, will come out on July 4, the same day the third season of the show debuts. Netflix has also licensed "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" -- a prequel series to the 1980s Jim Henson film -- for a game that will debut later this year.
FILE — In this March 14, 2019, file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk pauses while speaking before unveiling the Model Y at the company’s design studio in Hawthorne, Calif.
Tesla wants everyone to drive an electric car. Now it risks becoming a niche brand.
Tesla is facing a raft of financial and safety issues just as a flood of competitors are hitting the market with their own electric vehicle offerings, posing perhaps the first serious threat to the company's dominance of the nascent electric vehicle industry.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Las Vegas.
Amazon's one-day delivery depends on the work of thousands of robots
Though largely unknown to the outside world, the robots have already logged more than 1.5 million miles of driving, according to an Amazon blog post describing work inside the warehouse.
Illinois Secretary of State Police are investigating the former Nissan of St. Charles automobile dealership and two others affiliated with the owner. Police have received hundreds of complaints from customers that the dealer failed to give them vehicle titles and failed to pay off outstanding loans on trade-in vehicles.
'This is a mess': Hundreds of complaints against St. Charles-area car dealerships
Illinois Secretary of State Police are dealing with more than 500 cases tied to the Nissan of St. Charles dealership and the Pre-Owned of St. Charles dealerships in St. Charles and West Chicago.
The Marq on Main apartment and retail complex is located on the former village hall site at the corner of Main Street and Burlington Avenue in downtown Lisle. Village officials waited 15 years for the property to be developed.
Opening of Marq on Main development celebrated in Lisle
Fifteen years after Lisle demolished its old village hall at the corner of Main Street and Burlington Avenue, the ceremonial ribbon was cut Thursday for the new apartment and retail complex that now stands on the site.
A proposal to replace the former Hoffman Lanes bowling alley building at 80 W. Higgins Road in Hoffman Estates with a Hertz Car Sales facility that would include a 4,200-square-foot building and 272 parking spaces received negative to merely neutral opinions from the village board during a courtesy review.
Hoffman Estates ambivalent about Hertz Sales dealership
The next steps in a proposed relocation of the Hertz Car Sales operation in Schaumburg to neighboring Hoffman Estates are unclear after Hoffman Estates village board members voiced negative to merely neutral opinions of its being built on the former Hoffman Lanes bowling alley site.
While undergoing renovations, the Holiday Inn at 3405 Algonquin Road in Rolling Meadows has faced 43 city building code violations totaling fines of more than $20,000, records show.
Closed Rolling Meadows hotel fined thousands for code violations after workers were staying there
The owner of a closed Rolling Meadows hotel faces thousands of dollars in fines for dozens of city code violations that have included rooms and offices being used without occupancy permits, a sprinkler system that was disabled and a leaking roof not repaired.
Parveen Goyal
Business Ledger | Goyal joins Lavelle Law as counsel
Schaumburg-based Lavelle Law announced that Parveen K. Goyal will join the firm as Of Counsel.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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