Information Technology
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CDK Global elects new board memberJun 20, 2016 1:00 am - HOFFMAN ESTATES - CDK Global has elected Robert "Rob" M. Tarkoff to the company's board of directors. Tarkoff has been president and chief executive officer of Lithium T...
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Germ sleuths go high-tech in battle against drug resistance
Jun 19, 2016 7:16 am - After salmonella poisoned people in Minnesota in 2014, state germ sleuths already had a suspicion of what the culprit might be: raw, stuffed chicken that had caused clos...
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This $1,000 go-kart has better safety tech than most cars
Jun 19, 2016 7:16 am - Since there have been teen drivers, there have been bad teen drivers. I counted myself among them, once "running over" a boulder while on a driving lesson with my mother...
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A look at the winners and losers of E3Jun 18, 2016 7:22 am - LOS ANGELES - With some publishers splitting from the show floor and more gamers sliding on virtual reality headsets than ever before, this year's Electronic Entertainme...
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Startup will help landlords, employers mine intimate data from your Facebook page
Jun 18, 2016 7:18 am - There's a scene in the dystopian scifi novel "Ready Player One" in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered o...
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App review: SeatGeek is just the ticket
Jun 18, 2016 7:17 am - SeatGeek is an event ticket marketplace and aggregator that collects and sells tickets from third-party vendors, such as Fanxchange, UberSeat and AJ Tickets, kind of lik...
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6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, study says
Jun 18, 2016 7:17 am - On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of "lorem ipsum" text under a frightening headline: "Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the hea...
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App reviews: Sprightly, Today
Jun 18, 2016 7:17 am - Sprightly Microsoft's Sprightly is a simple app for those who want to make something more than a cut-and-paste job for fliers and cards. The app gives you a handful...
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What the world needs now is a dinosaur emoji
Jun 18, 2016 7:14 am - The Unicode Consortium will soon release 72 new emoji into the world. None of them is a dinosaur. Dominik Schwarz, a self-described "internet rando" with a deep and abid...
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The self-retweet has officially arrived
Jun 18, 2016 7:13 am - This is how to retweet yourself on Twitter: Go to one of your own tweets, click the little loopy "retweet" button, choose whether to quote yourself or simply retweet you...