Information Technology
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This seafood restaurant's latest catch: Robots that greet customers and deliver food
Jul 06, 2019 6:08 am - More than three decades ago, when John Soysal first started waiting tables as a young man, the restaurant industry was a very different place. Online reviews didn't exis...
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Troll patrol: How Amazon's Twitch is protecting its LGBT community
Jul 06, 2019 6:07 am - On May 25, Twitch, the livestreaming service owned by Amazon.com, came under attack. A band of anonymous trolls began flooding the service with pornography, copyrighted ...
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The power of Google and Amazon looms over tech IPOs
Jul 06, 2019 6:00 am - After a years-long drought, a wave of technology startups - Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and more - are going public, evidence that the sector is thriving. But there's a shadow...
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Commentary: Big Tech has dug a moat that rivals and regulators can't cross
Jul 06, 2019 6:00 am - As U.S. anti-monopoly authorities weigh possible investigations into America's technology superpowers, there is one advantage the government can't touch: the size, scale...
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CMIT Solutions of Naperville & Orland ParkJul 05, 2019 1:00 am - ORLAND PARK - Information technology firm CMIT Solutions recently opened a new office in Orland Park, serving the region from Orland Park to Naperville. CMIT Solutions ...
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Facebook wants to limit the reach of bogus medical 'cures' by treating them like spam
Jul 03, 2019 6:00 am - In private Facebook groups devoted to natural treatments for cancer and other ailments, hundreds of thousands of members tell each other that baking soda, apple cider vi...
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Vernon Hills sets rules for new wireless antennas and equipment in public right of wayJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - Vernon Hills is laying the groundwork for the installation of 5G wireless service with approvals this week of master license agreements with Verizon and AT&T, but don't ...
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Facebook to ban census interference to allay worries
Jul 01, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook will ban content that misrepresents the 2020 U.S. census to suppress participation by minority communities, the latest step by the social media company to quell...
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German aerospace manufacturing firm is first tenant in Elk Grove tech parkJul 01, 2019 1:00 am - Germany-based Broetje-Automation will be the first tenant in the sprawling $1 billion Elk Grove Technology Park after inking a lease with its developer, village official...
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Help Desk: How to fight the spies in your Chrome browser
Jun 29, 2019 6:25 am - Is your web browser spying on you? My recent column about the stark privacy differences between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox generated a lot of conversation - and q...