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On topic: Tech news to know now
Here’s what’s going on in tech. Chinese tech and media giant LeEco opened its U.S. headquarters in San Jose on Thursday, touting a partnership with electric-car maker Faraday Future and […]
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Facebook: Government requests for user data grew by 13%
Facebook saw another spike in government requests for user data worldwide in the last six months of 2015, a report released by the the tech firm this week shows. From […]
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Google CEO talks AI-first world — where will the hardware go?
Quick, what’s the future of computing? If you said mobile, you just flunked Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s test. “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the […]
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How much to unlock an iPhone? Less than $1 million, reportedly
Call it a version of Your Tax Dollars At Work. The FBI reportedly paid just under $1 million to get a third party to unlock the iPhone used by one […]
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Carl Icahn to Apple: It’s not you, it’s China
Apple, which had already lost billions in market value since it reported earnings Tuesday, is falling further after activist investor Carl Icahn on Thursday said he has dumped his whole […]
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Off topic: Animal noises, take-kids-to-work oops, nickel birthday, veggie music
From cock-a-doodle-do to kukareku, around the world in animal sounds. Take your children to work, listen to dead air on NPR. The nickel, which was first minted 150 years ago, […]
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Google reveals growing dietary movement: ‘functional’ foods
Ask not whether your food tastes good – ask, rather, what your food can do for you. And if you do, you’ll be well positioned to join the expanding movement […]
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Biz Break: IDC says smartphone sales facing flat times
Top Of The Order: Smartphones Go Flat: According to technology research firm IDC, the market for smartphones during the first three months of the year barely budged from a year […]
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Google helps create ‘Web crawler’ for fighting child sexual abuse
An organization that works with police worldwide to remove images of child sexual abuse from the Internet has credited Google with helping it develop a “Web crawler” that finds child […]
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Bay Area biotech: AbbVie buying Stemcentrx for $5.8B; Sanofi bids $9.3B for Medivation
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie is buying Stemcentrx, a cancer drug startup in South San Francisco, for $5.8 billion, plus a potential additional $4 billion. AbbVie is gaining Stemcentx’s experimental treatment for small […]
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