Are we about to see the rise of robot bosses?
Imagine your boss was a machine. For some people it’s almost a reality. So will we all end up working for robots and algorithms?

June 17, 2014 at 11:21AM
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Why Would Amazon Want to Sell a Mobile Phone?
What should you watch for on Wednesday’s launch to see if Amazon is moving in the right direction? It is natural to start with the set of features that Amazon includes on its phone.

June 17, 2014 at 11:21AM
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How a Reporter Broke the Target Security Breach Story, and at What Risk
Brian Krebs has covered cybersecurity for more than a decade, first writing about it for the Washington Post before starting his own site. It’s only recently, though, close readers of his say, that his work has penetrated national conversations.

June 17, 2014 at 11:21AM
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Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water
The operator of Japan’s battered Fukushima nuclear power plant has said it is having trouble with the early stages of an ice wall being built under broken reactors to contain radioactive water.

June 17, 2014 at 9:57AM
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The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber
While the rest of us send data across the public Internet, NASA uses a shadow network that has demonstrated cross-country data transfers of 91 gigabits per second — the fastest of its type ever reported.

June 17, 2014 at 9:57AM
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The 120-Year-Old Mind-Reading Machine
Once recorded sound became reality, people believed all kinds of things were possible.

June 17, 2014 at 6:35AM
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The age of the quantified family is upon us
We’re one step closer to the quantified household.

June 17, 2014 at 5:15AM
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Domino’s Pizza launches voice ordering in mobile apps powered by Nuance
Dominos announced today that its launching a new voice ordering feature in its iPhone and Android apps that is powered by Nuance’s Nina Mobilevoice speech recognition, speech synthesis and natural language understanding technology.

June 17, 2014 at 12:09AM
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