Information Technology
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Instacart gets Red Bull and Doritos to pay your delivery fees
Mar 19, 2016 7:09 am - Online shoppers hate paying delivery fees. So Instacart Inc. is getting Pepsi to foot the bill. The grocery delivery startup is working with General Mills, Nestlé, Pepsi...
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Judge: Chipotle's social media policy violates US labor laws
Mar 19, 2016 6:45 am - HAVERTOWN, Pa. - An administrative judge found Chipotle's social media policy violated federal labor laws while ruling in favor of a Philadelphia-area employee who was f...
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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...