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Why Screen Time Before Bed Is Bad for Children

Sleep is an essential part of our development and wellbeing. It is important for learning and memory, emotions and behaviours, and our health more generally. Yet the total amount of sleep that children...

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Tech Bloggers Aren’t Trading Praise for Free Stuff

Even if bloggers accept compensation or free products for reviews, those perks don’t necessarily lead to endorsements, report researchers. In a study, most technology bloggers who have accepted...

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New United Airlines CEO Faces Long List of Challenges

The new CEO of United Airlines faces a daunting list of problems he must fix, including late flights and technology that too often suffers embarrassing outages. But if Oscar Munoz listens to people who...

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US Energy Technology Exports Could Send Risks With It

America’s energy landscape has dramatically changed over the last four years, with significant advancements in technologies across multiple energy sectors helping to produce a wider range of energy...

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Screen Time for Kids: 5 Ways for Parents to Manage Technology at Home

How reliant are your children on their digital devices? How much time do they spend staring at screens? For years, experts have been warning parents about the dangers of “screen time” to their kids....

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Credit Cards Will Change Forever Starting Next Month: What You Need to Know

You may not realize it, but the beginning of the end of traditional credit cards is near. Business Insider has put together a massive guide about credit cards’ shift to EMV technology starting next...

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Why Europe Isn’t Creating Any Googles or Facebooks

HELSINKI—Micha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his first technology startup there, but he never forgot the atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San Francisco, where he studied in the early...

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To Change Our Economy We Need to Change Our Thinking

It’s not surprising that new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment has been well received by the startup community. When he talks about the Australia of the future being agile,...

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US Regulator Missed Its Best Chance to Catch VW Cheating

CHICAGO—More than a decade ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency helped develop a technology that ultimately was used by an independent laboratory to catch Volkswagen’s elaborate cheating on...

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The Perverse Rise of Killer Robots

The development of “killer robots” is a new and original way of using human intelligence for perverse means. Humans creating machines to kill and destroy on a scale not yet imagined is a concept that...

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Rise of the Humans: Intelligence Amplification Will Make Us as Smart as Machines

In January this year Microsoft announced the HoloLens, a technology based on virtual and augmented reality (AR). HoloLens supplements what you see with overlaid 3-D images. It also uses artificial...

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Cybersecurity Firm: Chinese Hacking on US Companies Persists

WASHINGTON—Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its...

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Three New Technologies That Could Change the Way We Live

In the weeks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, not only are delegates meeting and hammering out proposed climate plans, but scientists and researchers are...

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Google Antsy as California Slow on Self-Driving Car Rules

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the Department of Motor Vehicles. The...

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Why Government and Tech Can’t Agree About Encryption

NEW YORK—Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and...

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Voice Recognition Is the First Step to Better A.I.

Voice recognition software continues to transform our lives in very real and important ways. The ability for a machine to translate and understand voice commands is the first step in an ever-growing...

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Growing Push to Expose More Students to Computer Science

MARYSVILLE, Wash.—Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the “run” button and watches as the...

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The Smart-Tech Future Beckons to Us From the CES Gadget Show

LAS VEGAS—Look around. How many computing devices do you see? Your phone, probably; maybe a tablet or a laptop. Your car, the TV set, the microwave, bedside alarm clock, possibly the thermostat, and...

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What Does It Mean to Think and Could a Machine Ever Do It?

The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we? It’s tempting to think...

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We Can—and Should—Scan the Brains of Police Officers for Racist Attitudes

Can functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans and other technology currently being tested on U.S. troops by the military be used to screen police recruits for hidden racist attitudes?...

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What Does It Take to Become a Black Mark Zuckerberg?

NEW YORK—Jhamar Youngblood didn’t want to be a nerd. He was a basketball player, a rapper. But he really, really liked math and computers. Such interests were problematic for an African-American child...

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Advanced Science Found on 2,300-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets

Babylonian cuneiform tablets from 350 to 50 B.C. show sophisticated calculations used to locate Jupiter. “The idea of computing a body’s displacement as an area in time-velocity space is usually traced...

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Faster-Than-Light Communication: A Theory

Albert Einstein’s General and Special Relativity theories state that nothing may travel faster than light. This seems to imply that we can never send information instantaneously; at most, it can only...

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Viral: Parent Carries Out ‘Experiment’ to Urge Mothers to Reconsider...

A young mother from Lakeside, California, decided to conduct an experiment to determine the role of technology in the household. Brandie Wood shared a Facebook post about her observations while...

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If You’re Using an ASUS Router, Your Data May Have Been Viewable by Anyone

If your Internet connection is going through a router from ASUS, your router—and all your information passing through it—may have been viewable by anyone in the world. ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. agreed to...

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Chinese Father’s Plan to Build a ‘Nature School’ Gets Widespread Support

A father in China is on a mission to free his children from computer games and cement walls, instead allowing them to listen to the sounds of cicadas and watch fireflies. The “school without walls,” or...

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Program Will Give Safe Smartphones to Australian Victims of Domestic Violence

Technology has been a tool for abuse towards victims of domestic violence, but a new program in Australia is empowering women. The country’s prime minister announced that the government will allocate...

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Google Puts Products on Display in Cuba

Google has announced a partnership with Havana, Cuba’s Museo Orgánico Romerillo. The museum will have an installation of Google Cardboards, low-cost virtual reality headsets, and Chromebooks available...

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Traditional Business Models Won’t Survive a Robot Takeover

Just a few decades ago, employers sought typists, operators, and mimeograph repair technicians. Companies nowadays want webmasters, LAN operators, and programmers. New developments for these industries...

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Automation Won’t Destroy Jobs, but It Will Change Them

The last few years have seen numerous studies pointing to a bleak future with technology-induced unemployment on the rise. For example, a pivotal 2013 study by researchers at the University of Oxford...

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The Marketing Corner: Tech Buzz

Our world is constantly evolving. If you have trouble believing this, just check out the social chatter from a few weeks ago. It was dominated by users who were describing some of their interaction...

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Is Death Reversible?

Death is defined as the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death, the complete and irreversible loss of brain function (including involuntary activity...

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New Smart Mirror Takes a 3D Body Scan and Tracks Fitness

You can now own a smart mirror that generates a 3D model of your body, instantly.  California start-up Naked Labs opened pre-orders on April 14 for the home use 3D body scanner, which looks just like a...

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Smart Earpiece Can Instantly Translate Any Language

One company believes its product can create “a world without language barriers.” Read MoreVideo: Husband Communicates With His Wife for the First Time in Years After two years of research and...

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Samsung Introduces Bendable Phones That May Be Released in 2017: Report

Samsung Electronics Co. is introducing new bendable smartphone models that could be made public as early as 2017, according to Bloomberg, per anonymous sources. The devices will use OLED, or organic...

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Vast, Ancient Cities Beneath Cambodian Jungle Change History Books

Archaeologists in Cambodia have found medieval cities between 900 and 1,400 years old buried beneath Cambodia’s jungle floor. The cities are considered a groundbreaking discovery that will change...

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Google as Your Doctor?

Have a peculiar pain but don’t know what to do about it? Millions turn to Google when searching for information on symptoms they are experiencing, and now the company will make it easier. Individuals...

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Apple Could Prevent iPhone Users From Recording at Concerts

It is a common phenomenon at concerts—a wave of hands holding their phones in the air to capture some footage, or even record the event in its entirety. But artists are losing out as videos get shared...

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10 Sci-Fi Writers Who Successfully Predicted Transport Technology (Infographic)

H.G. Wells anticipated the tank. The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” anticipated commercial space flight (albeit more than 16 years earlier than it will actually happen, since the first one is supposed...

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Apple to Allow Organ Donors to Sign Up on Health App

If you haven’t signed up to be an organ donor at the DMV, you will still be able to do so—on your iPhone. Apple will let iPhone users sign up to be organ, eye, and tissue donors through its health app...

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Former Gov’t Officials Discuss Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at Disclosure...

BRANTFORD, Canada—Former high-level government officials were among the panelists at a June 25 hearing calling for disclosure of any remaining classified government information on unidentified aerial...

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Best Marketing Automation Software for Small Business

Marketing automation is increasing in market growth and adoption. According to eMailMonday on average 49 percent of companies are currently using marketing automation and more than half of business to...

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Chinese Company Backs North Korean Nukes | China Uncensored

You know, one of the best decisions I ever made was moving from Los Angeles to New York. Why? Within a few years, North Korea may be able to nuke the West Coast of the United States. But according to...

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China’s Plan to Send Tourists into Space | China Uncensored

Space: the final frontier. And guess which country is going to conquer it? After all, the legendary Chang’e flew to the moon several thousand years ago, which definitely makes the moon a part of...

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Chinese Leaders Fear Military Revolt | China Uncensored

Protesters sure are a pain. Unless you’re the Chinese Communist Party. Then protesters are easily dealt with. Except of course when the protesters are military veterans. Yes, over 1,000 People’s...

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10 Insane Solutions to China’s Deadly Smog | China Uncensored

China has some of the worst pollution in the world. According to independent research group, Berkeley Earth, 4,000 people a day die in China because of air pollution. That’s about 17% of all deaths....

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Cyberattack That Took Liberia Offline Was Likely Just a Test

The entire internet of a small country was nearly taken out on Nov. 2 by one of the largest cyberattacks ever documented. Cybersecurity researchers worry that the attack on Liberia was merely a group...

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10 Insane Solutions to China’s Deadly Smog (Part 2) | China Uncensored

China has declared war on pollution. The Chinese regime is pumping $277 billion dollars into coming up with solutions for the smog problem. Along with, you know, all the coal they’re pumping into the...

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More Harm Than Good—Our High Tech Tools and Their Impact on Our Families

As 2016 rounds the corner to the finish line, few of us can say we haven’t spent a significant portion of this year gazing at screens. That’s especially so for teenagers. In fact, according to the...

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Trump Slaps China Over North Korea | China Uncensored

Last weekend, North Korean dictator and inventor of the Chairman Mao high fade Kim Jong-un announced that his military was close to testing a ballistic missile with the capability to reach the United...

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