Information Technology
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Humanoid robot easily crosses a balance beam in video
May 11, 2019 6:00 am - At first glance, a humanoid robot walking between two platforms across several cinder blocks may look like a simple feat. How many times, after all, have you crossed a s...
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Former Elk Grove Village farm takes shape as high tech hubMay 11, 2019 1:00 am - On land once envisioned for the gridiron of the Chicago Bears, likenesses of elk roam today instead. Those 29 bronze figures represent the massive $1 billion Elk Grove T...
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Zebra Technologies marks 50 yearsMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - LINCOLNSHIRE - Zebra Technologies Corp. is celebrating its 50th anniversary as an innovator in business technology solutions. Since the inception of its first printing p...
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Foster named to head task force exploring artificial intelligenceMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Bill Foster will serve as chairman of a newly created task force that will probe how artificial intelligence is affecting how consumers interact with and use f...
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AKHAN appoints ex-CIA chief to boardMay 08, 2019 1:00 am - GURNEE - AKHAN Semiconductor has appointed Don Hepburn to its board of directors as the Global Security and Intelligence Advisor. A decorated intelligence veteran and n...
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How Amazon's facial-recognition technology is supercharging local police
May 04, 2019 6:23 am - HILLSBORO, Ore. - When workers at an Ace Hardware here reported that a woman had walked out of the store with an $11.99 tank of welding gas that she hadn't paid for in h...
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Ikea asks startups to design life beyond flat-pack furniture
May 04, 2019 6:19 am - Sankarshan Murthy sinks into a sofa at Ikea's conference center in the sleepy town of Almhult in southern Sweden. The former Tesla and Apple engineer is jet-lagged after...
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Google will soon allow users to auto-delete location history and search data
May 04, 2019 6:18 am - Google users will soon have the option to automatically delete their location and web browsing histories, a privacy-enhancing feature to remove data about the places the...
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How German journalists are using Snapchat to teach teens about the Holocaust
May 04, 2019 6:17 am - Decades later, Maja Krapina is still haunted by the death of her 9-month-old sister. "We hid from the Nazis, but my sister was crying extremely loud," she recalled in Ru...
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'Math doesn't lie': Elon Musk can't dodge Tesla cash woes any longer
May 04, 2019 6:10 am - Elon Musk said he was through asking Wall Street for money. In spite of what the Tesla Inc. analysts said, Musk has in the past year insisted Model 3 production was fina...