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Google’s Eric Schmidt doesn’t fear artificial intelligence

“These concerns are normal. They’re also to some degree misguided," says Eric Schmidt, Google chairman, on fears that machines will take over the world. He’s not into doom and gloom,...

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Obama becomes the first US president to code

Dubbed "Coder in Chief," Barack Obama is being described as the first US president to dabble in computer programming. After kicking off the 2014 Computer Science Education Week with a...

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Jeff Bezos discusses his failures as Amazon’s CEO

Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, says he’s “made billions of dollars of failures” at the company. But, he said at Business Insider’s Ignition Conference Tuesday, what matters is that Amazon continues...

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eBay invests in “smart stores” in New York City and San Francisco

Over the last year eBay’s brand has struggled a bit. It was hit with a massive security breach and announced that it was spinning out PayPal, a divorce precipitated by...

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Fetching.io turns your browsing history into a searchable database

Some apps make it easy to delete your browsing history for the sake of privacy and security. This one called Fetching, however, does the opposite: it saves a comprehensive copy...

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Google’s new subscription service makes the Internet ad-free

Ads on websites can be done properly and tastefully so that they don’t really interfere with the way users browse and consume content from a page. However some ads can...

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Microsoft is making .NET open-source, bringing it to Mac and Linux

For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts to take many...

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DARPA funds new project that’s basically autocomplete for coders

DARPA is funding a new project by Rice University called PLINY, and it's neither a killer robot nor a high-tech weapon. PLINY, named after Pliny the Elder who wrote one...

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A plea to music streaming services to pay songwriters fairly

Avicii's song Wake Me Up has been played more than 168 million times in the last year and a half, making it one of the most streamed songs, ever. You...

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Amazon announces a new voice-command device called Echo

The announcement of Amazon Echo came as a surprise earlier this week and left some scratching their heads, wondering what in the world Amazon is thinking. While Amazon has been...

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