Information Technology
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Google retools search engineOct 05, 2013 8:04 am - MENLO PARK, Calif. — Google has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questi...
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Father of Prius sees long road to ditching gasOct 05, 2013 7:56 am - Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada rode his pioneering work on the Prius hybrid to the top of the world’s biggest car company. But that doesn’t mean he is a zealot when ...
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Japan, U.S. to adopt cyber-defense guidelinesOct 05, 2013 7:56 am - TOKYO — The Japanese and U.S. governments will incorporate a policy on how to respond to cyberattacks in the Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines, a move aimed at c...
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Review: New Amazon Kindles add help with a human faceOct 05, 2013 7:46 am - Here’s the most important feature of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX color tablets: Operators are standing by. Actually, they’re technical-support people, summonable from t...
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Facebook beefing up Graph Search featureOct 05, 2013 7:14 am - When Facebook announced in January that it was coming out with a search function, people flipped out about the privacy implications. As it turned out, though, Facebook’s...
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Wearable technology raise alarms for privacy advocatesOct 05, 2013 7:04 am - WASHINGTON — Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smart watch is set to hit U.S. stores this week, part of a new wave of wearable technology that some fear could open a largely unregul...
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Review: Gear watch has potential, but falls shortOct 05, 2013 7:00 am - NEW YORK — It didn't take long to see how a computerized wristwatch might help manage my digital life — or to see how Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch falls short. F...
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Trade-in options abound for smartphonesOct 05, 2013 6:42 am - NEW YORK — Feeling stuck with your old smartphone? Do you covet new releases like the iPhone 5S that boast niftier features like fingerprint sensors? There’s good news. ...
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Tesla CEO says fire caused by impaled batteryOct 04, 2013 4:17 pm - SEATTLE — The CEO of electric car company Tesla says a battery in a Model S that caught fire this week was apparently impaled by a metal object. Elon Musk gave more deta...
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Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatiseOct 04, 2013 10:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet. The roughly 800...