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15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa

Where there's a media platform popular with consumers, advertisers are never far behind. Case in point, Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, which has made its way...

Creating, cooling, and probing a molecule, all in one place

I love all aspects of quantum physics, but the quantum mechanics of ultra-cold atoms and molecules has a special place in my heart. Cooling...

Judge refers Waymo v. Uber lawsuit to criminal investigators

Waymo's allegations of trade secret theft against Uber should be referred to the US attorney for investigation, "based on the evidentiary record supplied thus...

Microsoft reaches beyond Windows with Timeline and Pick Up Where I Left Off

SEATTLE—At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft took the wraps off the next major Windows 10 version, the Fall Creators Update, and announced...

In the Arctic, carbon dioxide goes down where methane comes up

Reports of methane bubbling up from the bottom of the East Siberian Sea may have induced some climate change anxiety. In recent years, plumes of methane...

Report: Amazon is making an Apple TV app almost 2 years after it said it would [Updated]

Update: Buzzfeed's John Paczkowski, who has a good track record with Apple rumors, now reports that Apple will unveil the Amazon app at WWDC...

Sprint sues government over elimination of broadband price caps

Sprint and Windstream sued the Federal Communications Commission this week over a decision that will help AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge higher prices for certain...

Microsoft’s new VR controllers will be great—until SteamVR “Knuckles” arrive

Thursday's Microsoft Build keynote included a repeated call from Technical Fellow Alex Kipman about the importance of mixed reality (meaning, virtual reality headsets and their...

Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead

Remember Itanium? Intel's first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new...

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