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Hackers can hijack your iPhone or smart speaker with a simple laser pointer — even from outside your home

Taylor Telford The Washington Post
Nov 09, 2019 5:00 am - Laser pointers are great for taunting cats and inflicting irritation. But they're also quite effective at hacking Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, researchers say — even...
Self-driving Uber in 2018 crash wasn't designed to see jaywalkers

Ryan Beene and Alan Levin (Bloomberg)
Nov 09, 2019 5:00 am - Uber Technologies Inc.'s self-driving test car that struck and killed a pedestrian last year wasn't programmed to recognize and react to jaywalkers, according to documen...
Mitutoyo inks sponsorship with Titans of CNC

Nov 07, 2019 12:00 am - AURORA - Mitutoyo America Corp. has agreed to a sponsorship agreement with Titans of CNC, a free project-based education platform that helps guide students and teachers ...
Zebra acquires Cortexica Vision Systems

Nov 05, 2019 12:00 am - LINCOLNSHIRE - Zebra Technologies Corp. announced it has acquired Cortexica Vision Systems Ltd., a London-based business-to-business computer vision-based artificial int...
Alight Solution completes NGA acquisition

Nov 04, 2019 12:00 am - LINCOLNSHIRE - Benefits, payroll and cloud solutions provider Alight Solutions said it has completed its acquisition of NGA Human Resources. Terms of the acquisition wer...
From toast of town to toxic: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg on outs with Democrats

By MARCY GORDON
Nov 04, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Mark Zuckerberg's social network in Washington is shrinking. Bipartisan hostility against Facebook has been building for months, fueled by a series of priva...
Discover begins contactless card rollout

Nov 04, 2019 12:00 am - RIVERWOODS - Discover announced it will begin issuing contactless-enabled credit cards over the next several months. With contactless technology, Discover cardmembers ca...
Analysis: The hidden problem with HBO Max's service plan

Steven Zeitchik The Washington Post
Nov 02, 2019 6:13 am - For consumers it felt like a sweet stream: pay the same $15 you're already paying for HBO, get all the additional content of HBO Max. As the AT&T-owned WarnerMedia unvei...
Survey: The average time young people spend watching videos — mostly on YouTube — has doubled since 2015

Rachel Siegel The Washington Post
Nov 02, 2019 6:00 am - More than twice as many young people watch videos every day as did four years ago, and the average time spent watching videos — mostly on YouTube — has roughly doubled, ...
What is fingerprinting? The online tracking you can't avoid

Geoffrey A. Fowler The Washington Post
Nov 02, 2019 6:00 am - Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the internet could snoop on us — no. We've sunk even lower. There's a tactic spreading across the web named ...

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