Information Technology
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What does it take to be Wikipedia's MVP? 2.5M edits
Oct 06, 2018 1:05 am - Steven Pruitt has more than 2.5 million edits to Wikipedia articles to his credit. Yes, 2.5 million. That's a lot of editing to a lot of articles, so you'd understand if...
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Mainstream advertising still showing up on polarizing, misleading sites despite efforts to stop it
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Jihadi rapists. Muslim invaders. Faked mass shootings. Pizzagate. Somebody browsing highly partisan websites in recent weeks could have seen articles about all of these ...
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Dragalia Lost — first Nintendo built-from-scratch mobile game — off to weak start
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Nintendo Co.'s experiment with a built-from-scratch mobile game is off to an underwhelming start. Dragalia Lost, released last week, is the company's first smartphone ti...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Giving up your data for better services is 'a bunch of bunk'
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Apple chief executive Tim Cook urged consumers not to believe the dominant tech industry narrative that the data collected about them will lead to better services. In an...
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Jack Dorsey's Square rolls out lending for customer purchases
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into f...
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That Facebook group you joined years ago? It might now be supporting Brett Kavanaugh - or his accuser.
Oct 05, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - To the naked eye, thousands of users on Facebook are backing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But some of the groups that seem to advocate for his Sen...
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Amazon announces it will boost minimum wage to $15 for all workers after facing criticism
Oct 02, 2018 1:00 am - Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, a move that comes after the tech giant faced harsh criticism for payi...
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Can wireless challenge cable for home internet service?Oct 01, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Cellular companies such as Verizon are looking to challenge traditional cable companies with residential internet service that promises to be ultra-fast, affo...
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Analysis: Forget robots - retailers need people power
Sep 30, 2018 1:15 am - The ongoing fight for talent in the retail industry appears to be kicking into higher gear. Bloomberg's Matthew Boyle wrote Friday that Walmart Inc. has surveyed workers...
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Should you hand over your Fitbit data to your insurance company?
Sep 29, 2018 1:15 am - Life insurance company John Hancock made a splash recently with the news that soon all of its policies would come bundled with the option to let the company track your f...