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An algorithm that grants freedom, or takes it away

February 10, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.

Darnell Gates sat at a long table in a downtown Philadelphia office building. He wore a black T-shirt with "California" in bright yellow letters on the chest. He had never...

A warehouse robot learns to sort out the tricky stuff

January 29, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.

As millions of products move through warehouses run by Amazon, Walmart and other retailers, low-wage workers must comb through bin after bin of random stuff — from clothes and shoes...

Artificial intelligence is growing so fast, even Google’s co-founder is surprised

May 23, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Alphabet Inc. has been one of the world's biggest spenders on artificial intelligence. The advancements have even surprised company co-founder Sergey Brin. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

Facebook disclosed it has been giving marketers an inflated number for the average time being spent viewing online clips.

Facebook says it gave advertisers inflated video metrics

June 12, 2018 at 12:05 p.m.

Facebook Inc.'s rapid growth has been tightly linked to convincing advertisers that people are watching more videos on its social network. Now the company is disclosing it has been giving...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Spotify said to retaliate against artists with Apple exclusives

June 11, 2018 at 3:27 p.m.

An escalating battle between Apple and Spotify is leaving some musicians caught in the crossfire. Spotify has been retaliating against musicians who introduce new material exclusively on rival Apple Music...

Worry over a possible waning demand of the iPhone has hurt Apple's market cap, which has dipped $52 billion in 2016.

Apple has lost $52 billion in market value in 2016

June 30, 2019 at 9:56 p.m.

Apple Inc.'s investors are spooked. The shares ended the day below $100 for the first time Thursday since October 2014 amid concerns that demand is waning for iPhones, the most...

Focus: Patent verdict shows Samsung needs to copy Apple design culture

August 23, 2021 at 1:36 p.m.

Samsung Electronics Co., after the ruling that it infringed on Apple Inc. mobile-phone patents, faces pressure to step up its own focus on design. The California jury ruling reinforced Samsung's...

Focus: Patent verdict shows Samsung needs to copy Apple design culture

December 24, 2018 at 2:50 p.m.

Samsung Electronics Co., after the ruling that it infringed on Apple Inc. mobile-phone patents, faces pressure to step up its own focus on design. The California jury ruling reinforced Samsung's...

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