Sexting, Email, and Other Tech Basics That Mystify the Supreme Court
“The court hasn’t really ‘gotten to’ email,” says Justice Kagan.

June 26, 2014 at 7:55AM
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One of Russia’s Last Remaining Early-Warning Satellites Just Died
The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that its only geostationary early-warning satellite — the Cosmos-2479, launched two years ago — is no longer functioning.

June 26, 2014 at 6:47AM
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The Father of Net Neutrality Returns to Do Battle With Comcast
Fifteen years ago, Tim Wu landed a marketing job with a network equipment maker called Riverstone Networks. Riverstone made network routers, among other things, and it sold many of these to Chinese Internet service providers who then used them to block traffic on their networks.

June 26, 2014 at 6:17AM
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Big Brother? Chicago to measure pedestrians’ movements
By year’s end, Chicago could have as many as 50 sensors attached to downtown light poles collecting data on everything from the humidity to air quality to the noise level.

June 26, 2014 at 4:21AM
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Tech is racing against time as Africa’s Ebola outbreak spreads
It’s like something out of “Outbreak” or “The Hot Zone”: Aid workers in awkward biohazard suits maneuvering around a pop-up hospital and isolation unit, fighting a deadly virus in crude conditions.

June 25, 2014 at 10:17PM
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Hyundai’s latest car automatically slows down for speed cameras
Cars have long used GPS and mapping features to help drivers detect speed cameras, but Hyundai’s latest vehicle goes one step further to ensure you truly avoid them.

June 25, 2014 at 9:11PM
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Why, Robot? 80 years of Hollywood technophobia
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” is the latest in a long line of Hollywood movies about the dangers of technology. What are we so afraid of?

June 25, 2014 at 9:11PM
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Lots of Irish people are getting spammed with Harry Potter quotes… and here’s why
It’s all because of something called a Bayes engine. Never heard of it? Read on…

June 25, 2014 at 8:12PM
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Google’s Sundar Pichai: King of Android, Master of Mobile-Profile
30 year ago, Sundar Pichai was using a rotary phone for the first time. Now he’s the Android king.

June 25, 2014 at 7:08PM
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Apple’s Health-Tracking New iWatch: What We Know
Tech giants and start-ups are vying for the lead in the multibillion-dollar body-monitoring market, but Silicon Valley experts say Apple’s iWatch, rumored to debut in October, could change everything.

June 25, 2014 at 5:44PM
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