Information Technology
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AT&T adds five suburbs to high-speed fiber internet networkMar 28, 2017 1:00 am - AT&T customers in Arlington Heights, Libertyville, North Aurora, Wilmette and Westchester now have the company's higher-speed Wi-Fi and internet services with a just...
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Lewis University dedicates lab to Glenview coupleMar 27, 2017 1:00 am - ROMEOVILLE - Lewis University recently dedicated a computational science lab in honor of longtime professor Paul Kaiser and his wife, Kathleen. The lab is housed in the ...
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Is Hasbro's Pie Face the future of fun in the social media era?
Mar 26, 2017 1:00 am - When K.C. Miller got her seven grandchildren together for the holidays, things got a little messy in the kitchen. They weren't cooking some elaborate recipe: They were p...
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One problem with Samsung's Bixby? It's hard to say
Mar 25, 2017 7:18 am - If Samsung has its way, we'll all be bellowing voice commands to "Bixby," the company's new voice assistant. Yet Bixby could be hard for some users to call upon because ...
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App reviews: Sling Kong, Shout
Mar 25, 2017 7:17 am - Sling Kong The game Sling Kong encourages its players to get into some monkey business. The aim of the game is to launch your adorable animal avatar (who is, by def...
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Which country requests most content removals from Twitter? Turkey
Mar 25, 2017 7:16 am - Turkey accounted for more than half of all content removal requests sent to Twitter during the second half of 2016, a ranking it has topped for three years. Turkish cour...
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How Oppo, Vivo phones toppled Apple in China
Mar 25, 2017 7:15 am - Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn't have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now. Duan is the reclusive billion...
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Amazon's latest tactic in $800B grocery game: brick-and-mortar stores
Mar 25, 2017 7:14 am - "Very wasteful" isn't a phrase usually associated with Amazon.com Inc., which is so cost-conscious it once removed the light bulbs from its cafeteria's vending machines....
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Siri, Alexa, Cortana. Want them all on your iPhone?
Mar 25, 2017 7:12 am - The war of the personal digital assistants got hotter this week. Amazon announced that it's putting its Alexa voice assistant officially on the iPhone. Alexa is availabl...
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Three things Samsung says Bixby will do that Siri can't
Mar 25, 2017 7:11 am - Samsung on Monday officially revealed Bixby, its new voice assistant and Siri rival. Bixby will debut on the Samsung Galaxy S8, which the firm is revealing later this mo...