Information Technology
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Apple HomePod disappoints with slow sales after tardy debut
Apr 14, 2018 1:05 am - When Apple's HomePod smart speaker went on sale in January, it entered a market pioneered and dominated by Amazon's Echo lineup of Alexa-powered devices. Apple has been ...
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Analysis: Facebook's default privacy settings are worse than Zuckerberg says
Apr 14, 2018 1:04 am - While Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was boasting to Congress this week about how much Facebook is doing to protect privacy for its billions of us...
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Privacy debate catching on in rural town where Facebook stores its data
Apr 14, 2018 1:03 am - FOREST CITY, N.C. - It was slow at the thrift shop, and manager Stephanie Henderson, 38, was looking at her laptop, trying to discover all that Facebook had collected on...
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Dropbox shows it's still possible to defy the odds
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - In the age of the tech giants, start-ups face daunting odds. Through aggressive acquisitions, blatant mimicking of smaller rivals, and the built-in advantages of their u...
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A year ago, you probably thought Mark Zuckerberg was running for president
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - The big meme about Mark Zuckerberg in 2017 was that he was running for president. It wasn't true, Zuckerberg said twice, but the meme didn't die. When he visited cattle ...
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Analysis: Legislators are missing the point on Facebook
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - I'm getting increasingly baffled and disappointed by the scandal-cum-congressional-ragefest surrounding Facebook. Instead of piling on Mark Zuckerberg or worrying about ...
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Analysis: 7 take-aways from Zuckerberg's marathon congressional testimony
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified about data privacy Tuesday in a marathon hearing before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Here are seven t...
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Commentary: Don't be so shocked at spies tracking your phone
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - The press has been in a lather of late over reports that the Department of Homeland Security had discovered evidence that cellphone tracking tools were being used by "un...
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This 3-year-old has 'a sparkle' in her heart: The world's smallest mechanical heart valve
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Mark Zuckerberg, Congress and the Facebook conspiracy theory you might believe
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - On Tuesday, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg took hours of questions from senators about his platform, in a hearing that was mostly about the Cambridge Analytica revelations, ...