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Maersk, IBM to Llaunch Blockchain-Based Platform For Global Trade
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Maersk, IBM to Llaunch Blockchain-Based Platform For Global Trade

The world's largest container shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk is teaming up with IBM to create an industry-wide trading platform it says can speed up trade and...

Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World
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Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World

For the most part, digital technology is all about dumping things that move.

Some Chinese Apple Users Warned By Firm on Dodging New Data Law
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Some Chinese Apple Users Warned By Firm on Dodging New Data Law

Some Chinese users of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) products who have created Apple IDs overseas to circumvent a new law that requires their personal data to be stored within...

China Becomes One of the Top 5 ­.s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 ­.s. Patent Recipients For the First Time

Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...

Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas
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Autos Overshadow the Small Gadgets at Ces Tech Show in Vegas

The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely...

Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever
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Intel's New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever

This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about...

The Real Future of Work
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The Real Future of Work

In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
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Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater

One blue surgical drape at a time, the patient disappeared, until all that showed was a triangle of her shaved scalp.  

Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Is a Huge Deal for Facebook, and the World
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Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Is a Huge Deal for Facebook, and the World

Each January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rings in the New Year with a personal challenge, like learning Mandarin, running 365 miles, or building an artificially...

Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World
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Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World

When it first launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment.

Can Washington Be Automated?
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Can Washington Be Automated?

It's a brisk late November afternoon in an 8th-floor office overlooking downtown Washington's Thomas Circle. The White House is an easy five block walk; the Hart...

8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
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8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018

It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...

A Visit to Facebook's Recently Opened Center For Deleting Content
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A Visit to Facebook's Recently Opened Center For Deleting Content

For the first time, Facebook granted journalists access to its new center in Essen, Germany for deleting content from its platform. In the five-story building,...

The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare

Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...

License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch
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License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch

Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...

How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
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How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care

When Daniel Poston, a second-year medical student in Manhattan, opened the App Store on his iPhone a couple of weeks ago, he was astonished to see an app for a...

Can China Contain Bitcoin?
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Can China Contain Bitcoin?

It was only a matter of time before Bobby Lee, CEO of China's longest-running Bitcoin exchange, found himself in the crosshairs of Chinese regulators.

College Students Come ­p with Plug-In to Combat Fake News
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College Students Come ­p with Plug-In to Combat Fake News

A team of college students is getting attention from internet companies and Congress after developing a browser extension that alerts users to fake and biased news...

The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine

From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...

What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills
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What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills

On a lark, Joel Wilson started developing skills for Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, this past January.
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