Information Technology
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Why Google's new AI assistant tells you it's a robot - even if it sounds human
Jun 30, 2018 1:00 am - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Silicon Valley's quest for artificial intelligence has led it to build self-driving cars, drones, and robots that can do back flips. But often th...
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Privacy as a product: The argument for trading your personal data for a cheaper car
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Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die
Jun 30, 2018 1:00 am - A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital's computers ...
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VidCon co-founder Hank Green still believes the internet can make the world better
Jun 30, 2018 1:00 am - ANAHEIM, Calif. - Hank Green does a lot, which you probably already know if you're reading this article. Here's a very incomplete summary: He just wrote a novel, and he ...
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Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders
Jun 30, 2018 1:00 am - Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms - and sought to rile voters - with accusations that the country's tech giants...
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Do you really know what your kid's doing on that device?
Jun 26, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Ayrial Miller is clearly annoyed. Her mother is sitting with her on the couch in their Chicago apartment, scrolling through the teen's contacts on social ...
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Review: Amazon's Fire TV Cube wants to replace your remote (but Alexa gets a little tongue tied)
Jun 23, 2018 1:15 am - In the beginning, there was a dial. Then man invented the television remote so he wouldn't have to get off the sofa. Then remote controls multiplied ... so man could nev...
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What does it mean to be a NASA astronaut in the age of Elon Musk and Richard Branson?
Jun 23, 2018 1:09 am - HOUSTON - The journey to outer space for American astronauts for the past seven years has begun at a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan, deep in Central Asia. There, t...
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How should the feds regulate tech? The FTC wants to know
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's privacy, competition and consumer protection cops plan to embark on a cross-country listening tour to gauge how academics and ave...
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Women in tech score symbolic wins, but cash is still hard to get
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - For the past 21 years, serial startup founder Stefania Mallett has been seeking venture capital, usually from white male investors. Late last week, she finalized her big...