Information Technology
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Uber winning the efficiency war with traditional taxis, study says
Mar 19, 2016 6:45 am - In economics, capacity utilization is jargon for how much of your available resources are being used at any given time. For taxi drivers, that means how often you have a...
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Siri doesn't have answers to serious mental health concerns
Mar 19, 2016 6:45 am - While more and more people use their smartphone to ask health-related questions, a new study found that conversational agents like Siri come up short when it comes to re...
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Startups vying for hype at SXSW
Mar 19, 2016 5:12 am - Every March, 80,000 startup hustlers, PR pushers, Twitter personalities, wantrepreneurs, midlevel marketing executives, corporate titans grasping at relevance, professio...
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Review: What you need to know about Samsung's newest phones
Mar 19, 2016 5:12 am - Klutzes of the world should rejoice as Samsung officially starts sales of its new water-resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. The phones, which the com...
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What AlphaGo's sly move says about machine creativity
Mar 19, 2016 5:12 am - AlphaGo, the computer system Google engineers trained to master the ancient game of Go, needed only one move to make it abundantly clear it has left humans in its dust. ...
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Instagram is going to look a little more like Facebook
Mar 19, 2016 1:00 am - Instagram announced that it plans to change the way users' timelines look by ordering posts using an algorithm rather than simply displaying the photos in reverse chrono...
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I rode in Google's self-driving car. This is what impressed me the most.
Mar 17, 2016 1:00 am - Google's self-driving car knows how to run yellow lights. But unlike regular humans, it doesn't have to guess whether it'll beat the countdown. Instead, it turns what fo...
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Unitel to provide research systems for oil companyMar 16, 2016 1:00 am - MOUNT PROSPECT - Unitel Technologies has been awarded a contract to supply two Octave catalyst research systems for an oil company in Southeast Asia. The contract follow...
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CDW launches IT orchestration marketing campaignMar 15, 2016 1:00 am - VERNON HILLS - CDW recently launched its new "Orchestration by CDW" brand campaign, redefining IT Orchestration as the art of bringing together the right people, solutio...
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Scientists made cutting edge 'smart skin' with Post-its, foil and tape
Mar 13, 2016 7:38 am - Human skin may be the ultimate multi-tasker: It can sense pressure, feel temperature and detect humidity and motion - all at the same time. It's no wonder, then, that it...