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Follow Your Heart: Apple Watch ECG Changing Lives

THE BEATING HEART OF APPLEDespite being announced back in June, it wasn’t until the launch of watch OS 5.1.2 earlier this month that the long-awaited ECG app finally dropped.

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A Year Of Data Scandal

Why Apple is setting a shining example on user privacy

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New Cinema: From Box Office To Your iPhone

With movie admissions in the US at a ten-year low, we take a closer look at how technology is transforming the way we consume Box Office content, from the Big Screen to the Small Screen in our pockets, explore how Netflix is changing the game with multi-million dollar film productions, and consider the impact of Apple’s upcoming streaming service on the sector…

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China Drafts Rules On Biotech After Gene-Editing Scandal

China has unveiled draft regulations on gene editing and other potentially risky biomedical technologies after a Chinese scientist’s claim of helping to create gene-edited babies roiled the global science community.

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Real Or Artificial? Tech Titans Declare AI Ethics Concerns

The biggest tech companies want you to know that they’re taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants doesn’t spill over to the dark side.

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Univision Unloads Gizmodo, The Onion To Private Equity Firm

Univision has sold tech site Gizmodo, satirical-news hub The Onion and other Englishlanguage sites to the private equity firm Great Hill Partners. Terms were not disclosed.

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Brain Zaps Boost Memory In People Over 60, Study Finds

Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found.

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737 Max The Questions Behind Automated Systems

Negotiating the divide between man and machine.

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Before Moon Landing, Astronauts Learned Geology In Arizona

Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth.

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40 Countries Agree Cars Must Have Automatic Braking

Forty countries led by Japan and the European Union — but not the U.S. or China — have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles to be equipped with automated braking systems starting as soon as next year, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.

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Twitter Profit Rises As Trump Demands ‘Fairer' Social Media

Twitter Inc. trumpeted strong quarterly growth in earnings and users while President Donald Trump tweeted criticism of the social media site for allegedly discriminating against him politically.

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British Cyber Expert Pleads Guilty To Creating Malware

A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus has pleaded guilty to developing malware to steal banking information.

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Mars Lander Picks Up What's Likely 1st Detected Marsquake

NASA’s InSight lander has picked up a gentle rumble at Mars, believed to be the first marsquake ever detected.

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Facebook Drone Could One Day Provide Global Internet Access

A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.

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Game Of Thrones: Doesn't Anyone Here Want To Make Any Money?

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Q&A: How Can I Stop My TV From Spying On Me?

The publication by WikiLeaks of documents it says are from the CIA’s secret hacking program describe tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers.

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US Says Global Spam Scheme Targeted After Mastermind Nabbed

U.S. authorities announced this week they are working to dismantle a global computer network that sent hundreds of millions of spam emails worldwide each year. The Russian man alleged to be at the head of the scheme was arrested Friday in Spain. 

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Slumping PC Market Shows A Glimmer Of Hope In 1st Quarter

The long-suffering personal computer market may be finally recovering from the damage inflicted by the shift to smartphones and tablets, according to a report released this week. 

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Preparing Artifacts Of The 'Great War' For The Digital Age

Rick Maynard found the manila envelope containing letters from the battlefields of World War I while he and his sister were cleaning out the basement after their father’s death. 

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Lithium Reviving Centuries-old Czech Mining Tradition

A surge in the global use of lithium, a key component in electric batteries, is leading to the revival of a centuries-long mining tradition in the Czech Republic’s Ore Mountains. 

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Blackberry Wins $815 Million In Dispute With Qualcomm

BlackBerry Ltd. says it has been awarded $814.9 million in a binding interim arbitration decision in a dispute with Qualcomm Inc. over royalty over payments. 

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How Apple will "Pro for it"with Future Macs

Typically, Apple won’t publicly launch into extensive detail about any upcoming products until those products are on the verge of shipping. However, the company recently broke from this playbook for a meeting with a small number of reporters - in Apple’s Product Realization Lab for the Mac, too - with whom the subject of the Mac’s future was brought up. The message that the press walked away with was clear: Apple is committed to giving the Mac a bright future for professional users. 

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Uber's PR Head Resigns Amid Tumultuous Time For Company

Uber’s head of communications is leaving, the latest in a string of executive departures as the ride-hailing company tries to dig out from a pile of troubles. 

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5 Reasons Amazon Is Experimenting With Physical Stores

Is the online giant of retail also looking to conquer physical stores?

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Apple Growing Cash Stash Spurs Talk of Huge Acquisition

As Apple’s stash of cash grows, so does the possibility that the world’s most valuable company will use some of the money for a huge acquisition that would expand its empire beyond iPhones and other gadgets.

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Robotic Fruit Pickers May Help Orchards With Worker Shortage

Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States.

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Airbnb, San Francisco Reach Deal on Rental Registrations

San Francisco and Airbnb reached a deal this week that aims to prevent the short-term rental website from listing housing units that are not following city rules that limit the duration of stays and the number of nights units can be rented.

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Nutonomy, Groupe PSA to Collaborate on Self-driving Cars

Self-driving software company nuTonomy is teaming up with French automaker Groupe PSA.

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WNBA Set to Stream 20 Games a Season on Twitter

The WNBA will stream 20 games a year over the next few seasons on Twitter in a deal announced Monday night.

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Apple Makes $1B Commitment Toward More Us Manufacturing Jobs

Apple will invest $1 billion to help create more U.S. manufacturing jobs and to counter recurring criticism about its reliance on overseas factories to assemble most of its iPhones and other devices.