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Why Wi-Fi Is Often So Slow
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...
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A Robot With a Reassuring Touch
If you grab the hand of a two-armed robot named Baxter, it will turn its head and a pair of cartoon eyes—displayed on a tablet-size computer-screen "face"—will...
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New Breed of Robotics Aims to Help People Walk Again
When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around his left leg, lifting it and moving it forward.
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Tech's New Wave, Driven by Data
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...
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Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing
Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive...
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A Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking, and apps for smartphones.
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Secrets Learned in Apple-Samsung Trial
When companies go to trial, as Apple and Samsung have learned, the public gets to hear corporate secrets. Among those revealed:
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In Apple’s Patent Case, Tech Shifts May Follow
This week, nine jurors are expected to hunker down in a federal courthouse here to decide a case that could change how the world's smartphones and tablet computers...
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New Wave of Adept Robots Is Changing Global Industry
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old...
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How Big Data Became So Big
This has been the crossover year for Big Data—as a concept, as a term, and, yes, as a marketing tool.
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The Campaign to Digitize Your Wallet Is Intensifying
Last week, Starbucks joined forces with Square, a technology start-up that lets you pay for things with a smartphone. Coming from a company whose cafes seem to...
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New Google Tools to Make the Search Engine More All-Knowing
When Google imagines the future of Web search, it sees a search engine that understands human meaning and not just words, that can have a spoken conversation with...
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Strong and Fast Markets, but No Time to Think
Financial markets have greatly improved over the past quarter-century.
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Talk to Me, One Machine Said to the Other
Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature...
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones.
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Mystery Tug on Spacecraft Is Einstein's 'i Told You So'
It's been a bad year to bet against Albert Einstein.
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In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism
Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium...
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The Drone Zone
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers...
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