Information Technology
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How Lake County is using software to lower fuel costs and emissionsAug 09, 2019 1:00 am - Lake County is using software in vehicles to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions. To date, "idle technology" has been installed on 72 vehicles and the county plans to...
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Republican groups vow to stop buying Twitter ads until McConnell campaign account is unfrozen
Aug 08, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A move by Twitter to freeze the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has prompted a backlash by President Donald Trump's campaign an...
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Tesla scrutinized by U.S. agency over Model 3 safety claims
Aug 07, 2019 1:00 am - The National Highway Traffic Administration sent Tesla's Elon Musk a cease-and-desist letter last year regarding Model 3 safety claims and subpoenaed the carmaker for in...
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IDEX Corp. joins S&P 500Aug 05, 2019 1:00 am - LAKE FOREST - S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced that IDEX Corp. is now a part of the S&P 500 index. IDEX will also be added to the S & P 500 GICS Industrial Machinery ...
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An Equifax hack settlement offers a $125 payout. The truth is more complicated.
Aug 04, 2019 6:14 am - The bad news: Nearly half of all Americans were affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach, in which hackers stole personal data for more than 147 million people: credit c...
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Young Instagram users give up privacy in search of metrics
Aug 03, 2019 6:20 am - Millions of young people are turning their personal Instagram accounts into "business" profiles to learn more about how their posts are performing. The trend has an unin...
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A lawmaker wants to end 'social media addiction' by killing features that enable mindless scrolling
Aug 03, 2019 6:17 am - WASHINGTON - The youngest senator in Congress, and one of its toughest crusaders against Big Tech, proposed a bill Tuesday meant to curb social media addiction by regula...
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Sony's wearable air conditioner lets you control your body temperature
Aug 03, 2019 6:15 am - A quick browse through Amazon reveals that designers have been hard at work attempting to conquer new territory in the world of fashion: air-conditioned clothing. There ...
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'Emotion detection' AI is a $20B industry. But can it do what it claims?
Aug 03, 2019 6:12 am - In just a handful of years, the business of emotion detection - using artificial intelligence to identify how people are feeling - has moved beyond the stuff of science ...
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Capital One hack comes at a tough time for Amazon Web Services
Aug 03, 2019 6:07 am - The data breach that appears to have exposed more than 100 million applications for Capital One credit cards couldn't have come at a worse time for Amazon Web Services, ...