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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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To Keep Old Growth Out of New Shirts, Fashion Turns to Technology
Clothing brands collaborated with a Canadian nonprofit to build a website that can identify forests that should be kept pristine, to make supply chains less ecologically...
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Amazon Go Has a Real Rival in Japan
A company in Japan has developed an automated system that could rival Amazon Go in terms of quickly providing consumers with products.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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Puerto Rico Is Fighting Zika With Cloud Technology
A project to track Zika-carrying mosquitoes across Puerto Rico is developing solutions that could help other parts of the world cope with mosquito-borne diseases...
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The Big Hack: How China sed a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate .S. Companies
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming...
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How Faking Videos Became Easy and Why That's So Scary
A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in...
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians
You're crossing the street wrong.
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Blockchain, Once Seen as a Corporate Cure-All, Suffers Slowdown
Corporate America's love affair with all things blockchain may be cooling.
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One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon.
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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If You're A Facebook ser, You're Also a Research Subject
The professor was incredulous.
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Drone Swarms Are the New Fireworks Lighting Up China's Skies
Since China banned fireworks across more than 400 cities to reduce pollution, a new entertainment has emerged to fill the skies: drone swarms.
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Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men's Dreams
Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
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Inside Google, a Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?
Last July, 13 U.S. military commanders and technology executives met at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley outpost, two miles from Google headquarters.
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Trump's China Concern Adds Pressure in Race to Be First With 5G
The Trump administration's concern about China's growing technology clout is putting even more pressure on U.S. wireless carriers in their marketing battle over...
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Companies Seek Ways to Hold On to Customer Data nder New E Privacy Law
Nicholas Oliver gathers reams of personal information about users of his mobile app: age, sex, location, profession, relationship status, and more—and uses it to...
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Demand for Programmers Hits Full Boil as .S. Job Market Simmers
Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to...
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China's Internet nderground Fights for Its Life
For years, thousands of virtual private networks (VPNs) have allowed people in China to circumvent restrictions on internet access and visit Facebook, Google, YouTube...
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The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Picture this: You're driving home from work, contemplating what to make for dinner, and as you idle at a red light near your neighborhood pizzeria, an ad offering...
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