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Wayfair Follows Amazon With Its Own Made-up Holiday: Way Day

Amazon started Prime Day. Alibaba capitalized on Singles Day. Now another e-commerce company is hoping for success with an invented shopping holiday.

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NY Settles With 4 Companies To Stop Tracking Children Online

The state attorney general announced settlements Tuesday with Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro and JumpStart Games to stop them from using or allowing tracking technology on their popular children’s websites.

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Apple Is Shifting The Focus Of Its Secret Car Project

Apple may not become an automaker, but it still wants to develop its own self driving technology.

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Amazon Adds Audiobooks, Audible Channels To Prime Perks

Listen up.

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Apple: Software Flaws In Latest Wikileaks Docs Are All Fixed

Apple said purported hacking vulnerabilities disclosed by WikiLeaks this week have all been fixed in recent iPhones and Mac computers.

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Elon Musk's Latest Target: Brain-computer Interfaces

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is announcing a new venture called Neuralink focused on linking brains to computers.

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Got Camera? Facebook Adds More Snapchat-Like Features

Facebook is adding more Snapchat-like features to its app. The company says it wants to let your camera “do the talking” as more people are posting photos and videos instead of blocks of text.

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Justices Won't Hear Appeal In Music Copyright Dispute

The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue copyright infringement claims against music site Vimeo for hosting unauthorized recordings from the Beatles, Elvis Presley and other classic artists.

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Cyborgs At Work: Employees Getting Implanted With Microchips

Cyborgs At Work: Employees Getting Implanted With Microchips

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National Archives To White House: Save All Trump Tweets

The National Archives and Records Administration has told the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump’s tweets, even those he deletes or corrects, and the White House has agreed.

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Privacy Concern Raised Over Search On Verizon Phones

Is Verizon planning to spy on its customers?

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Montana Joins Others In Effort To Bolster Internet Privacy

States have started writing their own legislation to protect broadband privacy after Congress voted to repeal regulations that would have required internet providers to obtain their customers’ consent before collecting their personal information.

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State, Federal Authorities Proposing New Rules On Equifax

State, Federal Authorities Proposing New Rules On Equifax

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Up, Up And Away: Passenger Carrying Drone To Fly In Dubai

Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July.

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From Protests To 'Pussy Hats 'Trump Resistance Brews Online

The revolution may not be televised - but it apparently will be tweeted. And Facebooked. And Instagrammed.

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Remembering An Icon: Prince's Discography Now Available To Stream On Apple Music

It's official:Prince returns to online streaming services.

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Google Targets ‘Fake News,' Offensive Search Suggestions

Google has sprinkled some new ingredients into its search engine in an effort to prevent bogus information and offensive suggestions from souring its results.

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Video Streaming Player Pioneer Roku Seeks $100M In IPO

Video streaming player pioneer Roku is going public, hoping to raise money to expand into more households and fend off competitive threats from bigger technology companies.

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Apple Park: A Masterpiece Of Architecture

"One more thing" From Steve Jobs

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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Screens In 3-D At Venice

Director John Landis said Monday that he is still upset by Michael Jackson’s death, but a Venice Film Festival screening dedicated to “Thriller” is a chance to celebrate the musician’s life.

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Nasa's Next Mars Rover Mission To Carry Tiny Helicopter

NASA is planning to send a tiny autonomous helicopter to Mars on its next rover mission to the red planet.

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Swiss Police Investigate Fatal Crash, Fire Involving Tesla

Police in southern Switzerland say they are investigating the death of a German man after a Tesla car he was driving crashed into a guardrail and burst into flames last week.

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Trump To Sign Order To Reform Us Infrastructure Technology

President Donald Trump is signing an executive order to try to reform the federal government’s confounding information technology structure.

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Senate Democrats Push To Reinstate ‘Net Neutrality' Rules

Don’t expect the House to go along with the Senate’s expected passage of legislation that would revive an Obama-era rule requiring equal treatment for all web traffic by internet providers.

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AT&T Chief Lobbyist Out After Hiring Of Trump Attorney Cohen

The chief lobbyist for AT&T is leaving the company after overseeing a $50,000-per-month contract for President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen to serve as a political consultant.

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Icelandic Fugitive In Bitcoin Heist Arrested In Amsterdam

Icelandic Fugitive In Bitcoin Heist Arrested In Amsterdam

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UK Calls On Social Media Firms To Better Protect Children

UK Calls On Social Media Firms To Better Protect Children

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Twitter Is Profitable Again In 1st Quarter, Grows Overseas

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Here Come Smart Stores With Robots, Interactive Shelves

Tomorrow’s retail stores want to take a page from their online rivals by embracing advanced technology - everything from helpful robots to interactive mirrors to shelves embedded with sensors.

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Avoid Dull Snapshots: Tips For Taking Stunning Pictures

Smartphone cameras have seen dramatic improvements, but technology alone won’t produce shots that grab attention.