Information Technology
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NeverWet? More like OftenkindawetJul 27, 2013 7:19 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — In 2011, LancasterOnline, a news website covering Lancaster, Pa., published a story about a seemingly magical invention by a local company. The produ...
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Why Instagram is even more depressing than FacebookJul 27, 2013 7:17 am - It’s a truism that Facebook is the many-headed frenemy, the great underminer. We know this because science tells us so. The Human-Computer Institute at Carnegie Mellon h...
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Bill Raduchel on getting into Harvard and the future of newspapersJul 27, 2013 7:16 am - Ted Leonsis calls Bill Raduchel “a technology guru, a thought leader and an evangelist for all things digital.” Raduchel, 67, is little known to the general public, but ...
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DuckDuckGo founder on trying to fly with Google, MicrosoftJul 27, 2013 7:05 am - AltaVista, one of the leading search engines of the 1990s, has died. It was 18 years old. It had languished for years before its owner, Yahoo, finally pulled the plug. S...
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Tech Tips: New phone upgrade plans akin to rentingJul 27, 2013 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Over the past few weeks, three major U.S. wireless providers unveiled plans to combat phone envy: Let's say you just bought a phone, and then one with better ...
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Leap Motion controls PCs with wave of a handJul 27, 2013 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine being able to control your computer and manipulate on-screen objects not with a mouse, keyboard or even your voice, but with a wave of your hand....
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Hacker who made ATMs spit out cash diesJul 26, 2013 3:24 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent hacker who discovered a way to have ATM machines spit out cash and was set to deliver a talk about hacking pacemakers and other wireless impl...
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It takes a ‘war room’ to launch Netflix’s seriesJul 26, 2013 6:36 am - LOS GATOS, Calif. — Netflix’s Internet video subscription service works around the clock, but it’s unusual for more than two dozen of the company’s engineers and top man...
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Google discloses it paid $966 million for WazeJul 26, 2013 6:35 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google says that it paid $966 million to buy online mapping service Waze, six weeks after closing the deal. The Internet search leader spelled out the pu...
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Zynga drops after abandoning u.S. Online-betting planJul 26, 2013 6:33 am - Zynga Inc., maker of the social- networking game “FarmVille,” plunged as much as 16 percent in extended trading after abandoning plans to enter the online- gambling busi...