Information Technology
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Facebook hackers likely hit most users
Apr 05, 2018 1:00 am - Facebook said Wednesday that "malicious actors" took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect inform...
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Better Business Bureau: How to keep your smartphone, data safeApr 04, 2018 1:00 am - In the past week alone, four major brands have reported data breaches jeopardizing private information for millions of consumers. Only days ago, Under Armour Inc. annou...
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Facebook, longtime friend of data brokers, becomes their stiffest competition
Mar 31, 2018 1:11 am - Facebook said late Wednesday it would stop data brokers from helping advertisers target people with ads, severing one of the key methods marketers used to link users' Fa...
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This retailer built a $33M business on Amazon and pickleball
Mar 31, 2018 1:10 am - Little Alexandria, Virginia-based Amify is the 21st-century version of the thousands of enterprises that thrived around the railroads 150 years ago. Meatpackers, farmers...
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Commentary: Why Apple and Microsoft are healthier than Facebook
Mar 31, 2018 1:09 am - It's easy to understand Apple CEO Tim Cook's somewhat self-righteous comments on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal: His company has never emphasized customer data...
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Analysis: How Zuckerberg's Facebook is like Gutenberg's printing press
Mar 31, 2018 1:08 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. - When historian Niall Ferguson moved from Harvard to Stanford two years ago, he was struck by Silicon Valley's indifference to history. The hubris he ...
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Could Spielberg's 'Ready Player One' lend marketing boost to VR?
Mar 31, 2018 1:08 am - Steven Spielberg's hotly anticipated "Ready Player One" hit theaters March 29. The film features characters who escape a dystopian future Ohio by plugging into an altern...
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Cinematic VR could be a game changer - if anyone will pay for it
Mar 31, 2018 1:07 am - LOS ANGELES - The Westfield Century City mall runs a dozen of the latest blockbusters at its modern movie theater here, but recently some of the most cutting-edge entert...
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Enough bitcoin. Let's talk about virtual cats
Mar 31, 2018 1:00 am - We spend way too much time talking about digital currencies and not nearly enough time on digital cats. I've spent a few days this week dropping in and out of the Game D...
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Commentary: Is it time to put self-driving cars in the slow lane?
Mar 31, 2018 1:00 am - A self-driving Uber car fatally crashed into a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, tragically illustrating the fears that some of us have long held about the dangers of these ...