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Mark Zuckerberg's Long March to China
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Mark Zuckerberg's Long March to China

For U.S. Internet businesses, China is the land of moral defeat.

Wearable Tattoo Sends Alcohol Levels To Your Cell Phone
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Wearable Tattoo Sends Alcohol Levels To Your Cell Phone

Engineers have developed a wearable, non-invasive monitoring device that measures alcohol levels in perspiration.

Apple Gets Its First Director of AI
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Apple Gets Its First Director of AI

Apple is hiring a rising star in the world of deep learning to serve as its first director of AI research. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor at Carnegie...

Ad Algorithms Might Choose You to Be a Paid Product Promoter
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Ad Algorithms Might Choose You to Be a Paid Product Promoter

That's the sound of Ryan Detert's invite-only mobile app, Influential, trying to get the attention of one of his select group of users.

World's First 'cybathlon' Pits High-Tech Prosthetics Against One Another
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World's First 'cybathlon' Pits High-Tech Prosthetics Against One Another

Bob Radocy finished screwing a light bulb into a lamp perched on the desk ... and the crowd went wild.

Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors
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Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors

The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending...

The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App

Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.

Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry
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Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry

"We are looking at sensory immersion.

Europe's Love/hate Relationship with Silicon Valley, and What that Means For ­.s. Tech Firms
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Europe's Love/hate Relationship with Silicon Valley, and What that Means For ­.s. Tech Firms

The last time Mark Zuckerberg visited Berlin, he appeared to be having a really good time.

Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don't They?
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Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don't They?

The court filings paint a grisly picture: As Ashley Kubiak sped down a Texas highway in her Dodge Ram truck, she checked her iPhone for messages.

Moscow Drops Microsoft on Putin's Call For Self-Sufficiency
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Moscow Drops Microsoft on Putin's Call For Self-Sufficiency

Moscow city will replace Microsoft Corp. programs with domestic software on thousands of computers in answer to President Vladimir Putin’s call for Russia's authorities...

Meeting Cellebrite Israel's Master Phone Crackers
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Meeting Cellebrite Israel's Master Phone Crackers

Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election
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Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election

The Electome project compares the content of Twitter conversations with news media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.

Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
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Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation

SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple's virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond...

Google, Apple Are About to Face India's Security Demands
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Google, Apple Are About to Face India's Security Demands

India's relationship with the global tech industry has become increasingly fraught.

Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)
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Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)

Apple plans to release a free coding education app on Tuesday that it developed with middle-school students in mind, in the latest salvo among technology companies...

The Most Popular Color on the Internet Is…
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The Most Popular Color on the Internet Is…

It's blue. The web is very blue. Not metaphorically, either.

This Is How Sports Teams Choose Their Tech Gear
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This Is How Sports Teams Choose Their Tech Gear

Since at least the 1930s, according to baseball historians, Major League Baseball clubs have kept phones in their dugouts and bullpens.

With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever
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With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever

Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in 2007.

We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality

Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.
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