Information Technology
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Apple picks Barrington High School for research projectDec 27, 2017 4:30 am - Barrington High School is among a select few schools in the country that will be part of an Apple Inc. technology research project next year. Under the project announced...
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Why suburban parents are pledging to 'Wait Until 8th' on smartphonesDec 26, 2017 4:00 am - Steve Douglass' 8- and 10-year-old boys wanted smartphones for Christmas, but they didn't get them. It's not because Douglass can't afford them. It's because the Lake B...
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Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick with Alexa voice remote among top Amazon productsDec 26, 2017 12:00 am - Amazon announced its biggest holiday season with customers all around the world shopping at record levels. Prime membership continued to grow this holiday — in fact, in...
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Apple's iPhone, iPad, Mac could soon run same apps
Dec 23, 2017 6:21 am - Apple's iPhone and iPad introduced a novel way of interacting with computers: via easy-to-use applications, accessible in the highly curated App Store. The same approach...
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'Pokemon Go' unleashes its critters in Apple's AR playground
Dec 23, 2017 12:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - "Pokemon Go" is moving into a different dimension on the iPhone, thanks to software that allows the game to play new tricks with its menagerie of di...
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Analysis: Slow iPhone? You don't need a new phone, just a new battery
Dec 23, 2017 12:21 am - Apple is taking heat for a discovery about old iPhones: As their batteries age, Apple's software slows them down. The phenomenon, discovered by Reddit members and acknow...
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The future of electric cars: Many models, few buyers
Dec 23, 2017 12:21 am - Automakers with ambitious plans to roll out more than a hundred new battery-powered models in the next five years appear to be forgetting one little thing: Drivers aren'...
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The push to crack down on cable TV password sharing
Dec 23, 2017 12:19 am - On Twitter, they are openly bartered, donated, even celebrated. "Anyone have a Spectrum user ID & password I can trade for?" one Twitter user wrote last month. Another t...
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Lawsuit: Companies use Facebook ads to exclude older Americans from jobs
Dec 23, 2017 12:19 am - Three workers and a large union sued T-Mobile, Amazon, Facebook, and other corporations on Wednesday, accusing them of using Facebook's ad targeting tools to exclude old...
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Could Europe's Uber ruling affect the future of the gig economy?
Dec 23, 2017 12:19 am - Uber isn't merely a digital middleman linking passengers and drivers, but rather an actual transportation service, the European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday, in a pi...