Information Technology
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Lime wants to spread 1,500 shared cars around Seattle
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - San Francisco-based startup Lime has spent the last year scattering an assortment of brightly colored scooters and bikes around American cities, arguing such services wi...
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Competition to AmazonGo is coming from an unlikely source: Israel
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Amazon.com set off a global race to automate grocery shopping. The latest entrant comes from a nation not known for state-of-the-art retail experiences: Israel. Shufersa...
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She's one of millions disillusioned with social media. She also helped create it.
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - On the evening of Sept. 26, Bailey Richardson logged in to Instagram for the last time. "The time has come for me to delete my Instagram," she wrote to her 20,000 follow...
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Police think Alexa may have witnessed a double slaying. They want Amazon to turn her over.
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Alexa might have been listening, as she almost always is, when Christine Sullivan was stabbed to death in the kitchen of the Farmington, New Hampshire, home where Sulliv...
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Some fear Amazon's arrival could deepen inequality in Washington, D.C., region
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - A Crystal City, Virginia, condo that had sat on the market suddenly shot up in price by $20,000. Realtors are fielding cold calls from out-of-state investors eager to sn...
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He's supposed to shape Japan's cybersecurity. He just admitted he doesn't use computers.
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Japan is in the midst of revising its cybersecurity laws ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. However, a Cabinet minister who is supposed to be shaping these laws made...
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Your smartphone photos are totally fake - and you love it
Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - The little camera on this phone has a superpower: It can see things our eyes cannot. At night for the past few weeks, I've been tromping around dark places taking photos...
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Cabot Microelectronics acquires KMG ChemicalsNov 15, 2018 12:00 am - AURORA - Cabot Microelectronics Corp. has completed its acquisition of KMG Chemicals, Inc. KMG will now become a wholly owned subsidiary of Cabot Microelectronics. Cabo...
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Tenneco to acquire Swedish tech companyNov 15, 2018 12:00 am - LAKE FOREST- Tenneco Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Öhlins Racing A.B., a Swedish technology company that develops premium suspension systems and components for...
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PCTEL names new chief financial officerNov 12, 2018 12:00 am - BLOOMINGDALE - PCTEL Inc. has appointed Kevin McGowan as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Dec. 1. McGowan will oversee all financial functions for t...