Information Technology
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How does a tech billionaire say sorry for his unauthorized wedding? With an app, of course.
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Sean Parker was in a bind. It was late May 2013, and a scandal was beginning to brew over his wedding, an opulent affair that was to be held on California's coast. State...
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How to plan your smart home - and weigh privacy risks
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - You might have heard of lights that turn off with an app or voice command. Or window shades that magically rise every morning. Technology companies are p...
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Problems with facial recognition easy to see, hard to manage
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - An unusual consensus emerged recently between artificial intelligence researchers, activists, lawmakers and many of the largest technology companies: Facial recognition ...
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Amazon may be working on 'database of suspicious persons' using facial recognition
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - A patent application filed by Amazon offers a vision of how doorbell cameras could be equipped with new technology that would allow the devices to gather data and identi...
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'What is bitcoin?' According to Google, people still don't know
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Bitcoin's mesmerizing rise and fall in the past year has left investors and regulators asking what just happened? Many are also asking an even more fundamental question:...
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Esports players say 'dream job' is more than fun and games
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen, 21, remembers fantasizing about how awesome his life would be if he could become a professional video game player. “That's going to be a dream j...
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How tech workers are fueling a new employee activism movement
Dec 15, 2018 12:00 am - It was a busy fall for Google workers speaking out against their employer. On Nov. 27, a group of full-time employees and contractors were campaigning to extend new poli...
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Supreme Court to rule if someone can sue if biometrics are captured without permissionDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Whether there's a class-action lawsuit against a theme park for collecting fingerprints of minors without parental consent may depend on how the Illinois S...
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Facebook: New bug allowed apps to access private photos of millions of users
Dec 14, 2018 12:00 am - Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that pe...
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Will Bahamas Bowl help Elk Grove? Some like sponsorship, some still skepticalDec 13, 2018 4:28 am - When Elk Grove Village resident Ron Braun first heard his town would be the title sponsor for the college football Bahamas Bowl, he had two thoughts: "What bowl is that?...