Information Technology
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Analysis: Era of iPhone 'super cycles' is gone, even for 5g
Sep 07, 2019 6:18 am - "Super cycle" predictions are back. Kind of. In 2016 and 2017, some technologists and stock analysts said Apple Inc.'s 10th anniversary iPhone line would produce somethi...
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An AI first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft
Sep 07, 2019 6:15 am - Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive's speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account,...
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TomTom maps out revamp with bet on self-driving cars
Sep 07, 2019 6:10 am - Once a household name for its satellite navigation for cars, TomTom NV has taken a back seat in recent years as smartphones, loaded with apps like Google maps, surged in...
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Young adults use their phones 6 hours a day but barely touch their news apps, study shows
Sep 07, 2019 6:09 am - If the little square boxes on our phone screens are candy, then news apps, to young users, are the equivalent of chewy, high-fiber granola bars. They're on the screen, s...
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Viral Chinese app replaces your face with Leonardo DiCaprio's in 'deepfake' videos
Sep 07, 2019 6:00 am - An app that allows users to virtually graft their faces onto actors in scenes from movies and television shows became the most popular iPhone download in China last week...
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Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Fold should hit U.S. this month
Sep 06, 2019 6:00 am - Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Fold goes on sale Sept. 6 in its home market of South Korea, following a monthslong delay caused by the discovery of a severe defect in ...
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T-Mobile antennas approved for Arlington Heights water towerSep 06, 2019 1:00 am - Arlington Heights will allow T-Mobile to install antennas on a village water tower, some three years after officials initially floated the idea as a way to gain extra re...
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New Google policy bars ads for unproven stem cell therapies
Sep 06, 2019 1:00 am - Responding to ubiquitous online marketing by stem cell clinics selling unapproved treatments for everything from achy joints to Alzheimer's, Google announced Friday it w...
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Google memo to workers: Only talk about work at work - and definitely no politics
Sep 01, 2019 6:00 am - Google has a message to its workers: heads down and do your job. Google issued new guidelines in a memo for how its roughly 100,000 employees ought to conduct themselves...
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'Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.'
Aug 31, 2019 6:25 am - When Andrew Kaplan reminisces, his engrossing tales leave the impression that he's managed to pack multiple lives into a single existence: globe-trotting war corresponde...