Information Technology
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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...
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EKG heart monitor coming to Apple Watch?
Dec 23, 2017 12:00 am - Apple is developing an advanced heart-monitoring feature for future versions of its smartwatch, part of a broader push by the company to turn what was once a luxury fash...
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Why Facebook wants users to stop asking for likes
Dec 23, 2017 12:00 am - There are more than 70 million small business pages on Facebook as well as billions of users. For many freelancers, publishers, bloggers, celebrities, small business own...
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Apple revises policy that could have killed apps from small businesses
Dec 23, 2017 12:00 am - Apple has revised an App Store guideline that was designed to curb spam apps, but instead threatened to wipe out thousands of apps for local restaurants, churches and ot...
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Is plan to scan the face of every American traveling overseas illegal?
Dec 23, 2017 12:00 am - A Department of Homeland Security program that would collect facial scans of every American citizen traveling overseas may skirt the law, come at enormous cost, exhibit ...
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TA Associates to invest in FlexeraDec 20, 2017 12:00 am - ITASCA - Software company Flexera has entered into a new investment partnership with TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm. TA is acquiring equity from exi...