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The Robot Will See You Now - Jonathan Cohn - The Atlantic

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Jonathan Cohn - Mar. 01 (News) - IBM's Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to make diagnoses and treatment recommendations. This is one in a series of developments suggesting that technology may be about to disrupt health care in the same way it has disrupted so many other industries. Are doctors necessary? Just how far might the automation of medicine go?

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No Sales Pop for a New Version of Windows

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nick Wingfield - Dec. 24 (News Report) - Sales of computers and tablets running Microsoft’s new operating system have been slow this holiday season, underscoring the challenges to the PC business.

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Anonymous claims to have blocked GOP election theft with Ohio firewall

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Examiner - By Michael Santo - Nov. 18 (News Report) - according to the report, Anonymous stopped any voter fraud from happening. The hacker group put up firewalls on election night to any data from flowing out of Ohio. Anonymous, according to their "letter," could instead have tried to capture the data and then expose the criminals, but that would have been far too risky. Instead, they closed the hole that Rove was going to use and blocked the theft of the election.

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The Fight For The Fifth Screen (Fifth Screen!?) In Your Life

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Kit Eaton - Apr. 22 (News Report) - Smartwatches, AR goggles, and more: There's a mighty scramble afoot for your last sliver of attention. Is the the start of ad-mageddon?

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Google's Project Glass: You ain't seen nothin' yet

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Martin LaMonica - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The augmented-reality Project Glass provides a peek into Google's ambitions with artificial intelligence and how AI software could further shake up mobile computing. Google's Project Glass demo is certainly the coolest hardware demo so far this year. Behind the scenes is something equally intriguing: artificial-intelligence software.

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The State of the News Media 2012

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified — the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Playing with Fire: Amazon Launches a $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - Sep. 28 (News) - One year ago, almost to the day, Jeff Bezos gave me the reason why people should carry around a Kindle in the age of the iPad. No Angry Birds. “The number one app for the iPad when I checked a couple of days ago was called Angry Birds—a game where you t

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Amazon's Kindle Fire just nuked the tablet market: Winners and losers

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ZDNet - By Larry Dignan - Sep. 28 (News Report) - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage Wednesday to unveil an arsenal of devices that are going to disrupt rivals like Barnes & Noble as well as Android tablet makers.

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Sidestepping Apple: Companies rethink app strategies

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Tim Carmody - Jul. 26 (News Report) - We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks like for companies trying to avoid giving a 30% cut to Cupertino. Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble all removed the stores from their iOS applications on Monday, as well as any hyperlinks to or mentions of their online stores.

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Judges in US, Canada approve Nortel patents sale

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Randall Chase - Jul. 11 (News) - U.S. and Canadian judges on Monday approved a $4.5 billion cash bid from a consortium that includes smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion for thousands of patents held by bankrupt telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.

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Government may have hacked IMF

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:51:55 -0700

Reuters - Jun. 13 (News) - Security experts say the hacking of the International Monetary Fund bears the hallmarks of a national attack.

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Chinese manufacturers: The end of cheap goods?

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - “It is the end of cheap goods,” says Bruce Rockowitz. He is the chief executive of Li & Fung, a company that sources more clothes and common household products from Asia than perhaps any other. In the low-tech areas in which Li & Fung specialises, the firm handles an estimated 4% of China’s exports to America and a sizeable chunk of its exports to Europe, too. It has operations in several East Asian countries, where it diligently searches for cheap, reliable suppliers of everything from handbags to bar stools. So when Mr Rockowitz says the era of low-cost Asian production is drawing to a close, people listen. He argues that Asian manufacturing has gone through a number of phases, each lasting about 30 years. When China was isolated under Mao Zedong, companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea grew expert at making things. When China reopened in the late 1970s, after Mao’s death, these experienced Asian operators converged on southern China. With almost free access to land and labour, plus an efficient port and logistics hub in nearby Hong Kong, they started to make things ever more cheaply and sell them to the whole world. For the next 30 years manufacturers in China helped to keep global inflation in check. But that era is now over, says Mr Rockowitz. Chinese wages are rising fast. A wave of new demand, especially from China itself, is feeding a surge in commodity prices. Manufacturers can find some relief by moving production to new areas, such as western China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Malaysia, India and Indonesia. But none of these new places will curb inflation the way southern China once did, he predicts. All rely on the same increasingly expensive pool of commodities. Many have rising wages or poor logistics. None can provide the scale and efficiency that was created when manufacturers converged on southern China.

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Citi says hackers access bank card data

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Maria Aspan, Narayanan Somasundaram - Jun. 09 (News) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America, the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies.

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China rejects Google allegation of massive hacking breach as ‘fabrication’

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang, Ellen Nakashima - Jun. 02 (News) - Google’s allegation that hackers based in China accessed hundreds of Gmail accounts, including some belonging to senior U.S. officials, drew angry denials from Chinese government officials on Thursday, with a foreign ministry spokesman calling the accusation “a fabrication out of thin air.”

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Cyber Combat: Act of War

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Siobhan Gorman, Julian E. Barnes - May. 31 (News Report) - The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

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WikiSecrets

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline - By Martin Smith - May. 24 (Special Report) - It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over. Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- including his father, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information.

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Amazon Server Said to Be Used in Sony Attack

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Pavel Alpeyev, Joseph Galante, Mariko Yasu - May. 13 (News) - Amazon Web Services' cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp.'s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. The account has been shut down, the person said.

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Data Show Bin Laden Plots; C.I.A. Hid Near Raided House

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane - May. 05 (News Report) - After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday.

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Apple blames iPhone tracking file on 'bug'

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By John D. Sutter - Apr. 27 (News Report) - After a week of silence, Apple on Wednesday responded to widespread complaints about iPhones and iPads tracking their users' whereabouts by saying "the iPhone is not logging your location" and announcing an upcoming mobile software update.

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Amazon cloud outage derails Reddit, Quora

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNET News - By Stephen Shankland - Apr. 21 (News) - A partial failure at Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure brought down some Internet operations today, including the Web sites of Quora and Reddit.

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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Trip Gabriel - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with single-paragraph excerpts from the author’s works. But the curriculum did not require him, as it had generations of English students, to wade through a tattered copy of “Call of the Wild” or “To Build a Fire.”

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Money Rushes Into Social Start-Ups

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Geoffrey A. Fowler - Mar. 25 (News) - As Wall Street and other investors clamor for a piece of social-networking giant Facebook Inc., Silicon Valley venture capitalists are betting on a new generation of companies that hope to unshackle social networking from personal computers—and shift it to the cellphone.

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Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Mar. 18 (News Report) - After a 10-year run in which Google's revenues skyrocketed to almost $30 billion, Larry Page is CEO again, and he wants to run Google the old-fashioned way: like a startup.

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Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US government, business

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Michael Isikoff - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - A leader of the computer hackers group known as Anonymous is threatening new attacks on major U.S. corporations and government officials as part of at an escalating “cyberwar” against the citadels of American power.

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