Information Technology
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Apple wants to patent the bag you carry out of the store
Sep 24, 2016 7:15 am - Apple is known for challenging the conventions of personal technology with its computers, smartphones and tablets. But the company's latest innovation may not be the wat...
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Self-driving cars may force error-prone human motorists off the road
Sep 24, 2016 7:15 am - New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driv...
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Twitter to take photos, GIFs, videos out of character-limit count
Sep 24, 2016 7:15 am - Twitter announced recently that media extras such as photos, GIFs, and videos along with quoted tweets and user polls will no longer "use up" the 140-character limit per...
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Google shows up late in crowded digital-assistant field
Sep 24, 2016 7:13 am - Google unleashed its digital assistant for the first time, arriving late to the intensifying race among the largest technology companies to create a more personal and lu...
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Some users report hearing a hissing noise coming from iPhone 7
Sep 24, 2016 7:12 am - Several iPhone 7 users have reported via Twitter that they are hearing a hissing noise coming from the device while it's being used. Stephen Hackett, a writer for the bl...
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AT&T wants to make every telephone pole a wireless hotspot
Sep 24, 2016 7:11 am - AT&T says it plans to start testing a technology next year that could ultimately blanket the country in ultrafast wireless internet - without the need for expensive cell...
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Women in Hollywood get less screen time than men. New technology could help fix that.
Sep 24, 2016 7:10 am - Engineers have created software that parses through every scene, line and frame in a movie to determine exactly how much screen and speech time female characters are giv...
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An 'interview' with Google's new digital assistant
Sep 24, 2016 7:10 am - Alphabet's Google unit introduced a new digital assistant Wednesday. Bloomberg News put the system through its paces by asking questions, some of which were suggested by...
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BlackBerry selling a new device - but it's not a phone
Sep 24, 2016 7:10 am - BlackBerry Ltd. found a customer for its fleet-tracking device, taking a first step into the crowded market for monitoring cargo trucks and trains. The Waterloo, Ontario...
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App reviews: Prisma, Prune
Sep 23, 2016 7:19 am - Prisma Your snapshots are obviously works of art all on their own - but do you ever want to give them a little boost? Prisma takes the concept of a filter and amps ...