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Saturday June 28, 2014

Tech Week: Google's Plans, Aereo's Loss And Occupied Stalls

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Tech Week: Google's Plans, Aereo's Loss And Occupied Stalls

June 28, 2014 • Google rolled out a slew of new products and ideas at its annual developers conference, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to a TV startup, plus more headlines in this week's tech news roundup.

Thursday June 26, 2014

Facebook's Diversity Numbers Are Out, And They're What You Expect

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Facebook's Diversity Numbers Are Out, And They're What You Expect

June 26, 2014 • As the industry grapples with a gender gap, major tech firms are starting to release the gender and racial breakdowns of their staffs. Facebook's workers are mostly male and white.

Saturday June 21, 2014

Tech Week: Yo, The Amazon Fire Phone And Apple's iWatch?

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Tech Week: Yo, The Amazon Fire Phone And Apple's iWatch?

June 21, 2014 • An app based around a single word, a phone from Amazon that helps you buy stuff from Amazon and details about Apple's expected wrist candy. All that and more in the week's tech news.

Tuesday June 17, 2014

How Yahoo's Diversity Numbers Compare With Google's

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How Yahoo's Diversity Numbers Compare With Google's

June 17, 2014 • Yahoo has released its diversity figures as the tech industry grapples with a gender gap and low numbers of blacks and Latinos in its ranks.

Saturday June 14, 2014

Tech Week: Snooping On Steve, Uber Battles, 3-D Nutella Printing

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Privacy & Security

Tech Week: Snooping On Steve, Uber Battles, 3-D Nutella Printing

June 14, 2014 • In this week's roundup, a federal court says warrantless cellphone tracking is unconstitutional and we look back on a weeklong series exploring just how much of our digital data is exposed.

Friday June 13, 2014

Critics Renew Calls For More Diverse Video Game Characters

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Critics Renew Calls For More Diverse Video Game Characters

June 13, 2014 • Women make up a significant proportion of dedicated gamers, but they were hardly represented on stage and in games previewed at a big game industry trade event in Los Angeles.

Critics Renew Calls For More Diverse Video Game Characters

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Thursday June 12, 2014

How Well Do Tech Companies Protect Your Data From Snooping?

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How Well Do Tech Companies Protect Your Data From Snooping?

June 12, 2014 • We looked at 15 top companies and services that handle your email or store your data every day to see what steps they take to keep it from prying eyes. See how they stack up.

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Saturday June 7, 2014

Tech Week: Apple In Homes, Snowden Anniversary, Sexism Flare-Ups

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Tech Week: Apple In Homes, Snowden Anniversary, Sexism Flare-Ups

June 7, 2014 • At Apple's annual developers conference, the company announced it's moving into smart homes and tracking health. At another developer's conference, a controversial slide sparked outrage.

Wednesday June 4, 2014

Girlfriend 'Complains A Lot ... Interrupts,' Developer Tells Conference

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Society

Girlfriend 'Complains A Lot ... Interrupts,' Developer Tells Conference

June 4, 2014 • At a tech conference in Berlin, a developer compared a software plug-in framework to his girlfriend, saying she "complains a lot," "interrupts" and "doesn't play well with my other friends."

Monday June 2, 2014

Apple Makes A Play For 'Smart Homes' By Connecting Appliances

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Gadgets & Apps

Apple Makes A Play For 'Smart Homes' By Connecting Appliances

June 2, 2014 • The tech giant announced it's working on putting technical intelligence inside our homes, getting us closer to the fabled Jetsons house where all our appliances are automated.

Apple Makes A Play For 'Smart Homes' By Connecting Appliances

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Saturday May 31, 2014

Tech Week: C-E-Bros, Diversity Numbers And The Beats Deal

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Tech Week: C-E-Bros, Diversity Numbers And The Beats Deal

May 31, 2014 • The Snapchat CEO's fraternity-day emails surfaced, Apple made its biggest acquisition and Google disclosed the uneven gender breakdown of its staff. Take a look at the week's top headlines in tech.

Thursday May 29, 2014

Google's White Male-Heavy Staff Underlines Tech's Diversity Problem

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Google's White Male-Heavy Staff Underlines Tech's Diversity Problem

May 29, 2014 • After years of stalling, Google released a demographic breakdown of its staff that shows the company as 70 percent male and 61 percent white.

Wednesday May 28, 2014

Snapchat CEO's Emails Didn't Disappear, Come Back To Shame Him

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Snapchat CEO's Emails Didn't Disappear, Come Back To Shame Him

May 28, 2014 • The CEO of the self-destructing messaging platform Snapchat says he's "mortified" his misogynistic fraternity emails were made public.

Tuesday May 27, 2014

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Innovation

Google Is Becoming A Car Manufacturer

May 27, 2014 • The company that started as a search engine is making a big leap into the auto industry. Scientists at Google X are building self-driving cars they plan to debut (at least in test mode) this summer.

Google Is Becoming A Car Manufacturer

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Monday May 26, 2014

Wash And Deliver: Startups Aim To Solve First World Problems

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Wash And Deliver: Startups Aim To Solve First World Problems

May 26, 2014 • With services that pick up your laundry, deliver you gourmet food, take you on a cheap ride — all with the tap of an app — many of the hassles of life are disappearing. But can these companies last?