Information Technology
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Meet Tay, the creepy-realistic robot who talks just like a teen
Mar 26, 2016 1:00 am - Tay.ai, the coolest chatbot since SmarterChild, is "so fricken excited" to talk to you. That's because she's engineered to talk like a teenager - and does a pretty convi...
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LLR invests in Benefitexpress, new CEO tappedMar 22, 2016 8:00 am - Schaumburg-based Benefitexpress, which provides cloud-based software for employee benefits and health exchanges, is expected to announce today that it will get a "sizabl...
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Easier material access, help for businesses in Naperville library's futureMar 22, 2016 5:00 am - Naperville library officials imagine a future when materials are easier to access and the library is a leader with innovative ideas. They imagine serving diverse populat...
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How the FBI might hack iPhone - without AppleMar 22, 2016 1:00 am - NEW YORK - For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Ber...
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App reviews: Spiral Splatter, Mimicker Alarm
Mar 20, 2016 7:38 am - Put your hand-eye coordination to the test with Spiral Splatter as you drag a ball through increasingly complicated mazes. In addition to twists and turns, players will ...
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The secret, pre-Internet history of 'viral' memes
Mar 20, 2016 7:37 am - When you hear the word "viral," your thoughts probably go to the Internet or some contagious disease. But Claudio Saunt has some surprising news for you: Viral memes - l...
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The most (and least) remarkable thing about the SXSW online harassment summit
Mar 20, 2016 6:55 am - AUSTIN, Texas - Nobody made a scene. And nobody wanted to talk about Gamergate. For all the concerns that it would be disrupted by violent hecklers, the summit at the So...
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Automakers go back to school to learn to build self-driving cars
Mar 20, 2016 5:12 am - Automakers didn't build the self-driving car: Google did. That's a big problem for them. Hoping to catch up, Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen are betting on academics. Along...
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The real reason all the big social networks have introduced filtered feeds
Mar 19, 2016 7:42 am - First it was Facebook, with the filtered News Feed that shows you as few as one in three of the posts that your friends make. Then it was Pinterest, which -- a year ago ...
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Google 'paintbrush' raises some of art's oldest questions
Mar 19, 2016 7:32 am - A recent San Francisco art show hosted by Google included the typical trappings - a big crowd, striking pieces of art and high prices. But there was one noteworthy disti...