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The Basics of Smartphone Backups
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It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.
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In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
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The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.
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Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
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At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.
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“We will be attacked,” the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying “bug bounties” to hackers.
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Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
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Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
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