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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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America's Best-Selling Vehicle Becomes a Cybertruck With a Familiar Face
Ford Motor's new F-150 pickup and upcoming Mach-E electric SUV will be the carmaker's first vehicles to be equipped with electronic systems that enable wireless...
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Elderly Home Turns to Wearables for Contact Tracing, Sidestepping Apple-Google Limits
The Legacy at Town Square senior living facility in Amarillo, TX, recently accelerated contact tracing by having staffers and residents wear high-tech wristbands...
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Twitter Opens Up Data for Researchers to Study COVID-19 Tweets
Twitter will provide researchers and software developers access to a real-time dataset of daily public tweets about COVID-19, to study the virus' spread and track...
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Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years
Apple will patch a flaw that iPhones and iPads may have harbored for years.
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Mapping Coronavirus: South Koreans Turn to Online Tracking as Cases Surge
Private software developers have launched websites and apps to help people in South Korea track cases of coronavirus and avoid places where infected people have...
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How to Beat South Korea's AI Hiring Bots and Land a Job
Major South Korean companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen job applicants, giving rise to an industry to help job-seekers beat these systems. ...
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California Launches Earthquake Early Warning System
California has launched the first statewide earthquake warning system in the U.S.
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Driverless Electric Truck Starts Deliveries on Swedish Public Road
A driverless electric truck has started delivering freight daily along a public road in Sweden.
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How 5G Drove Moves by Apple, Qualcomm and Intel
Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business...
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Huawei Allegations Driven by Politics Not Evidence: .N. Telecoms Chief
U.S. security concerns about 5G mobile networks built by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei appear to be driven by politics and trade rather than any evidence, the head...
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Censorship Pays: China's State Newspaper Expands Lucrative Online Scrubbing Business
People.cn, the online unit of China's influential People's Daily, is boosting its numbers of human internet censors backed by artificial intelligence to help firms...
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Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web, at 30, Must Emerge from 'Adolescence'
The fraying World Wide Web needs to rediscover its strengths and grow into maturity, its designer Tim Berners-Lee said on Monday, marking the 30th anniversary of...
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Germany to Restrict Facebook's Data Gathering Activities
Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its...
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Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny
New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China's access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as...
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Fearful of Bias, Google Blocks Gender-Based Pronouns From New AI Tool
In May, Google introduced a feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type, but will not suggest gender-based pronouns.
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Playing Catch-p, Germany Throws Money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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Samsung Galaxy S7 Smartphones Vulnerable to Hacking
Researchers say they have determined a way to exploit a microchip security flaw in Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones.
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