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The digital revolution is shifting how societies are structured, and may lead to greater public o...
Smartphones have upended communication and consumption, leaving retailers to transform themselves...
MUNICH — Most investors just don't understand what it's all about — and so the scenario almost always plays out the same: Sophia Yen enters a room full of venture capitalists, almost all older ...
A programmer in Turin decided to enter into a digitally-enhanced universe of his own creation &md...
SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are legitimate because they are written ...
Upstarts no longer, the so-called BAT companies — Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — are a ...
GENEVA — One day last October, during the morning talk show on Swiss state broadcaster RTS, still groggy viewers were brutally awakened by a sentence dropped live on-air: “Schools train children ...
The world has mostly embraced technological advances. But as fallout over the Facebook data-breac...
Information gleaned from digital sources must be used in strict accordance with the law. But it&#...
FOREST CITY — It was slow at the thrift shop, and manager Stephanie Henderson, 38, was looking at her laptop, trying to discover all that Facebook had collected on her: the posts, the memes, the ...
"Cow Fitbits" and artificial intelligence are coming to the dairy farm, but some farmers aren'...
Alternative energy projects might be good for the environment. But with a few exceptions, they...
Scientists are investigating why 68 dolphins — most of which were dead —washed ashore...
-OpEd- MUNICH — We are making the world a better place: That has been a central promise that helped Silicon Valley's Internet giants seduce the public, on their way to gaining unprecedented ...
NEW DELHI — A recent photo posted on Facebook by the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, Ashutosh Sharma, featured 41 heads of Indian educational and research institutions. It ...
MOSCOW — Rumor has it that Vladimir Putin is something of a techie. Though the man in charge at the Kremlin has been vague about his economic priorities after the March 18 presidential election, ...
With the melting of the ice, maritime traffic is growing, which means new economic opportunities,...
-Essay- WASHINGTON — As I was driving back to Washington last Christmas, I needed the navigation smartphone application Waze to get me out of Brooklyn, onto the Verrazano bridge, then across ...
-Analysis- PARIS — He is “a man of about forty-two years of age, of large build, but slightly round-shouldered. His massive head momentarily shook a shock of reddish hair, which resembled a ...
LAUSANNE — Is wildlife a world of bullies? We like to imagine the relationships among living beings as a no-holds-barred struggle for survival, a twisted vision of Charles Darwin's theory of ...
Researchers at the University Of Macerata used volunteers and online bots to help translated the ...
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