Information Technology
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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...
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Saboteur or whistleblower? Battle between Elon Musk and former Tesla employee turns ugly
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - Hours after Tesla had sued its former employee on charges he had stolen company secrets, and days after chief Elon Musk had called him a saboteur, the Silicon Valley aut...
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IBM's AI robot takes on debate champions
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - Artificial intelligence has proved itself adept at some of humanity's favorite games, from chess to the much more complex board game Go. Now, a machine developed by IBM ...
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Apple iPhones will automatically share location data when you dial 911
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - Your iPhone will soon be able to share your location data automatically if you ever have to call 911, Apple announced Monday. The feature is designed to give first respo...
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How rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction
Jun 23, 2018 1:00 am - To understand why it's so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner's pigeons. In the 1950s, Skinner b...