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Phone Ban At School: French Children Forced To Hang Up
French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones.
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September 8, 2018
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‘Small Fry' More Than A Steve Jobs Story
“Small Fry: A Memoir” (Grove Press), by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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September 8, 2018
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Poll: Teens Say Social Media Makes Them Feel Better
Today’s teens are always on their smartphones, many check social media “constantly” and prefer texting over face-to-face communication.
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September 15, 2018
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New iPhones And Apple Watches Headline 2018 Keynote
The event started with a short movie showing an Apple employee running around the Cupertino complex, performing various feats of parkour, with an urgent package to deliver to Tim Cook. Is this the new iPhone or Apple Watch to be unveiled in the presentation?
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September 15, 2018
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iPhone XS: Every Detail Of The New Life
It would be hard to imagine a September without an iPhone event, and this month did not disappoint.
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September 15, 2018
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iPhone XR: All Of The Best Features At A Lower Price
The idea of a low-cost iPhone has been rumored for a number of years. Indeed, Apple has experimented with more affordable models in the past, with the firm launching the iPhone 5C back in 2013 and then iPhone SE in March 2016 to appease ‘customers who enjoy smaller screen sizes’.
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September 15, 2018
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Trump: Apple Can Avoid Tariffs By Shifting Production To US
President Donald Trump concedes that some Apple Inc. products may become more expensive if his administration imposes “massive” additional tariffs on Chinese-made goods, but he says the tech company can fix the problem by moving production to the U.S.
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September 15, 2018
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A Year After Equifax Breach, No Enforcement Actions
A new report by congressional investigators details how hackers broke into Equifax last year in a breach that exposed the financial information of more than 145 million Americans.
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September 15, 2018
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Massive Boom Hopes To Corral Pacific Ocean's Plastic Trash
Engineers are deploying a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.
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September 15, 2018
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Swedish Regulator Ends Investigation Of Birth Control App
Swedish regulators have closed their investigation of a birth control app after finding that the rate of unwanted pregnancies, which had gained media attention, was actually in line with clinical data.
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September 15, 2018
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US Blacklists NKorean-Controlled It Firms In China, Russia
The Trump administration blacklisted two North Korean-controlled information technology companies based in China and Russia on Thursday as it pushed for progress by Kim Jong Un’s government on denuclearization.
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September 15, 2018
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Intel To Develop Memory Tech At New Mexico Plant
Intel Corp. is moving development of a new generation of storage and memory technology to its manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
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September 15, 2018
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Talking Gloves, Tactile Windows: New Tech Helps The Disabled
Hadeel Ayoub slips a black glove onto her hand before beginning the swish of sign language that is meaningless to the untrained observer. Then she pushes a button on her wrist, and a small speaker relays the message drawn in the air: “Let’s Dance!”
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September 15, 2018
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Amazon Launches Small Business Shop
Amazon wants you to shop small.
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Bill Gates Calls For More Global Education Assessments Data
Bill Gates is rallying behind school quality in developing nations with a push for more assessment data, a new initiative that links the Microsoft co-founders signature U.S. education priorities with his more prominent global philanthropy work.
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European Nations Plan To Use More Hydrogen For Energy Needs
Dozens of European countries are backing a plan to increase the use of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels to cut the continent’s carbon emissions.
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Emergency Alert Test Sounds Off On Mobile Phones Nationwide
Electronic devices across the United States sounded off Wednesday as the Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test.
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October 7, 2018
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Chinese Armed Drones Now Flying Across Mideast Battlefields
High above Yemens rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as an SUV carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up.
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October 7, 2018
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New Zealand Fines Travelers Who Won't Unlock Secure Devices
Visitors to New Zealand can be fined 5,000 New Zealand dollars ($3,243) for refusing to provide passwords to unlock electronic devices and allow customs officials to examine them under a new law that a civil liberties group on Thursday condemned as a grave invasion of privacy.
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October 7, 2018
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Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Antitrust Case
Google is appealing a record $5 billion antitrust fine by European Union authorities, who say the tech giant abused the dominance of its Android operating system to stifle competitors.
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October 14, 2018
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US Treasury Issues New Rules On Foreign Investments
The Treasury Department issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds.
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October 14, 2018
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Debut Of SpaceX, Boeing Crew Capsules Off Until Next Year
The debut of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules is off until next year.
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October 14, 2018
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Hubble Space Telescope Sidelined By Serious Pointing Failure
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
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October 14, 2018
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Indiana School Tries New Methods With Autistic Students
An Indiana polis high school that opened last year is attracting students with autism by taking a different approach to teaching.
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October 14, 2018
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Can Pinterest Succeed As The 'UN' -Social Network?
If Instagram is the dream vacation youll never go on and Facebook is Thanksgiving with too many relatives arguing over politics, Pinterestis sitting on the couch by yourself, watching a home improvement show and absent-mindedly flipping through an old issue of Gourmet magazine.
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October 21, 2018
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Privacy : Apple Fighting To Keep Your Data Safe
Your data is in safe hands.
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October 21, 2018
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EU Leaders Order Sanctions Mechanism Against Cyber-Attacks
European Union leaders have commissioned work on a new system for slapping sanctions on the perpetrators of cyberattacks, in the wake of the attack on the world chemical weapons watchdog.
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October 21, 2018
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Google Plus To Close After Bug Leaks Personal Information
Google is shutting down its long-shunned Plus social network for consumers, following its disclosure of a flaw discovered in March that could have exposed some personal information of up to 500,000 people.
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October 14, 2018
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Food Delivery And The 'Sharing Economy'
Just last week, we wrote about how what has been widely termed the ‘sharing economy’ – the distinctly Millennial movement of ‘sharing’ rather than necessarily ‘owning’ seemingly anything and everything, and drawing upon technology in the hand to make this possible – has made itself felt in how we travel, with Uber and Airbnb the obvious market leaders.
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August 3, 2019
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US Says New Round Of Talks With China Were ‘Constructive'
U.S. and Chinese envoys held “constructive” trade talks on Wednesday, the White House said, after President Donald Trump rattled financial markets by accusing Beijing of trying to stall in hopes he will fail to win re-election in 2020.
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