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Tech Talk: Amazon Prime Video joins Netflix, Youtube in Comcast’s X1 platform
Amazon Prime Video, which creates original content like the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and curates others like Mr. Robot, will soon join Netflix and YouTube in the X1 system. That means customers will be able to use the X1 voice remote to pull up content in any of those applications from its main home screen without switching…
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Tech Talk: Apple becomes 1st public U.S. company worth $1 trillion
On Thursday, Apple became worth more than $1 trillion when its shares briefly climbed to $207.05, two days after the company announced the latest in a series of remarkably profitable quarters. Apple’s ascent from the brink of bankruptcy to the world’s most valuable company has been a business tour de force, marked by rapid innovation, a…
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Tech Talk: Apple accessories at risk from Trump tariff threat
Apple’s fastest-growing division, which includes Apple Watch, AirPods earphones and HomePod speaker, is at risk of being caught up in US President Donald Trump’s latest proposals to slap a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports. Despite the tech group’s iPhones and Mac computers so far being exempt from US tariffs, the devices that make…
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Tech Talk: Digital license plates are on the way
The mundane vehicle license plate, along with the windshield wiper a virtually unchanged vestige from the dawn of the automobile, is in the midst of a 21st-century makeover. Several companies are applying digital technology to what has long been just a slab of metal, in hopes of making it cheaper to update your vehicle’s registration…
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GSK collaborates with 23andMe on genetics-driven drug discovery
GlaxoSmithKline, the London-based pharmaceutical giant that has substantial operations in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, has entered into a four-year, $300 million collaboration with 23andMe that will focus on new medicines and potential cures for diseases – using human genetics as the basis for discovery. The $300 million represents an equity investment GSK is making in…
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Tech Talk: Internet companies balance social responsibility with profits
Digital distraction has been blamed for a range of ills, from ruining dinner-table conversation and disrupting sleep patterns, to interfering with children’s education and contributing to an increase in anxiety and depression. Now Silicon Valley has taken what is widely recognized as the first step towards treating addiction: admitting that it has a problem, write Tim…
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Tech Talk: Facebook slow to address ‘real-world harm’ of misinformation
It’s been two years since a U.S. presidential campaign in which Facebook was a primary vector for misinformation and state-sponsored political interference — and the company still seems paralyzed over how to respond. Presented with straightforward queries about real-world harm caused by misinformation on their service, Facebook’s executives express their pain, ask for patience, proclaim…
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Tech Talk: Facebook starts to block content that incites violence
Facebook has responded to criticism that its service may have contributed to sectarian violence in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, with a new policy that involves removing more types of deliberately inflammatory content from its service. On Wednesday, Facebook said it had begun a new policy of blocking “certain forms of misinformation that…
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Tech Talk: Facebook takes an interest in robotics
Facebook announced several new hires of top academics in the field of artificial intelligence Tuesday, among them a roboticist known for her work at Disney making animated figures move in more human-like ways. The reason for the social media giant’s sudden interest in robotics is central to the problem of how AI systems work today,…
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Tech Talk: Walmart, Microsoft link up on cloud technology in battle against Amazon
Retail giant Walmart signed a deal to use Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence technology on Tuesday, deepening a strategic partnership between two of Amazon’s major rivals. Walmart said the five-year agreement is designed to leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions in order to make shopping quicker and easier for customers, writes Sam Meredith at CNBC.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The Bentonville…
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Tech Talk: Google activates Chrome’s newest line of defense
Google has switched on a defensive technology in Chrome that will make it much more difficult for Spectra-like attacks to steal information such as log-on credentials. Called “Site Isolation,” the new security technology has a decade-long history, but most recently it’s been cited as a shield to guard against threats posed by Spectre, the processor…
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Tech Talk: Cicso chief executive urges simplifying computer networks
At Cisco’s annual technology conference in Orlando, Florida, last month, Chief Executive Chuck Robbins declared that technical shifts were affecting how all companies used the internet, forcing Cisco to rewrite its product playbook. Robbins has been pushing for networking systems to get simpler and smarter, both to reduce operating costs and to head off security…
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Tech Talk: Machines can also do white collar jobs
Companies now routinely use artificial intelligence to decide which clothes to stock and what to recommend to customers. And fashion, which has long shed blue-collar jobs in the United States, is in turn a leading example of how artificial intelligence is affecting a range of white-collar work as well, writes Noam Scheiber at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″]…
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Tech Talk: Researchers develop tech that ‘sees’ through walls
New technology developed by a team of MIT researchers detects motion on the other side of a wall, thus putting us one step closer to sharing superpowers with superheroes. RF-Pose, developed by professor Dina Katabi and her team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), uses artificial intelligence to teach wireless devices to sense people’s postures and…
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Tech Talk: Crypto industry frustrated by haphazard regulation
Regulators in the rapidly evolving crypto space are coming up with wildly divergent ideas about what it is and how to regulate it. Two of the biggest issues that touch an alphabet soup of regulators are securities law and taxation, writes Laura Shin at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Most pressing in the securities realm is the question…
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Tech Talk: Facebook under more scrutiny over data sharing
Facebook said this week it is facing an expansion of federal investigations into its sharing of user data with the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The Justice Department and the FBI have each broadened their inquiries into Cambridge Analytica by also focusing on Facebook, and the Securities and Exchange Commission has started an investigation into…
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Tech Talk: Is it possible to escape technology?
Where can to go to truly escape being inundated at all hours with the collapse of society, the weekend activities of people you barely knew 10 years ago, bad memes, worse TV, and so on? That place, as it turns out, might not actually exist, but there are parts of the world, and attitudes toward the world,…
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Seven business podcasts for summer walks on the beach
Podcasts are a timeless art. They provide free and easy to digest content that helps you improve whatever skill you’re working on. But like anything else on the internet, not all podcasts are worth your time. In this article, we’ll show you the seven best business podcasts to check out this summer. Listen to them…
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