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**Business, Spoken**

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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8/6 PM Cashless Stores Alienate Customers in the Name of Efficiency Aug 06, 2019

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Alphabet’s AI Might Be Able to Predict Kidney Disease Aug 01, 2019

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7/29 PM Amazon's Revolutionary Retail Strategy? Recycling Old Ideas Jul 29, 2019

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7/29 AM The $26.5B T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Moves a Big Step Forward Jul 29, 2019

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7/26 PM The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally Jul 26, 2019

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French company Idemia’s algorithms scan faces by the million. The company’s facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and France. Idemia software checks the faces of some cruise ship passengers landing in the US against Customs and Border Protection records. In 2017, a top FBI official told Congress that a facial recognition system that scours 30 million mugshots using Idemia technology helps “safeguard the American people.

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7/26 AM Using AI, and Film, to Track Tear Gas Use Against Civilians Jul 26, 2019

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Teen Love for Snapchat Is Keeping Snap Afloat Jul 25, 2019

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When 17-year-old Emma Logan wants to make plans with her friends, she turns to Snapchat. “At this point it’s just the easiest way to contact everyone,” she wrote via text. “I use it if I’m trying to get them to respond.” All her friends have Snapchat, and they all check it more frequently than they do their text messages “(no matter how much I hate that lol).

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Congress Is Pissed at Facebook and the FTC Jul 24, 2019

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Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are furious over reports that the Federal Trade Commission is prepared to settle with Facebook over widespread privacy violations for just $5 billion. But that doesn’t mean there’s currently an acceptable bipartisan solution floating around the marble halls of the Capitol.

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Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake Jul 24, 2019

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On the second evening of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, Anne Marie Bressler received an email from Amazon that had nothing to do with the latest deals. The message, sent from an automated email address Tuesday, informed her that the Align nutritional supplements she ordered two weeks earlier were probably counterfeit.

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7/18 Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe! Jul 22, 2019

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The messages started arriving on a Sunday afternoon in mid-May. “Just wanted to draw your attention to this,” one began. “Rumors are starting to surface,” another informed me. “I’d be very interested in getting your thoughts,” a third suggested. My correspondents, mostly strangers, were polite but insistent.

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