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The Race to Smartwatch Supremacy In an attempt to compete with Google and Apple, Pebble, which Kickstarted one of the first smartwatches two years ago, is dropping its prices and adding new functionality. The company will have to continue to push, though, if it hopes to remain relevant in this now competitive industry. |
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Can Womens' Diversity Be Found via Exclusion or Inclusion? Conferences and training programs that focus solely on women are on the rise. Although all of this focus on women's diversity is a way to enable them to step up and obtain better prospects, it leaves us to question whether the diversity lies in their exclusion or inclusion as a group. |
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Consider Unleashing Sharks to Test Internet Reliability Google recently invested $300 million in an undersea cable system that helps with the transmission of Internet data from the west coast of the United States to two cities in Japan. But Google is faced with an unexpected challenge—not from its usual competitors Apple and Facebook, but from sharks. |
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The Toothbrush Test and Other Reasons Tech Companies Make Acquisitions Acquisitions made by technology companies always seem to pique curiosity. Anuj Magazine looks at what goes into a company's decision to acquire another company and highlights recent acquisitions made by major technology companies—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. |
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China Challenging Google and Microsoft in OS War Thanks to a lack of trust in the United States' surveillance policies, China hopes to replace massively popular properties such as Windows and Android as the leading OS in the country, both on mobile and desktop devices. The current target date for release is October. |
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Google’s Project Zero Recruits Bug Hunters to Protect the Internet Calling Internet security a “top priority,” Google announced Project Zero, its new security research team dedicated solely to ferreting out potential targeted attacks—such as the Heartbleed bug—that can affect a significant number of people. |
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Google Chrome's Quirky Tick Google's web browser, Chrome, has a quirky tick. Literally. Chrome's programming is speeding up the system clock tick rate on computers running Windows. The end result of this tick-rate dilemma is an increase in battery power consumption by as much as 25 percent. |
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Can Entrepreneur Barbie Help Change Tech Culture? The glass ceiling may have cracks in some sectors, but it’s still holding strong in the technology industry. Several tech giants recently released workforce demographics that show striking similarities. Pamela Rentz highlights some initiatives designed to inspire girls to code and build technology. |
