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Opinion: Twitter's privacy blunder

By Evan Selinger, Columnist and Woodrow Hartzog, Contributor If you want marketers to listen even more intently to what you’re saying online, you’ll be happy t…

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The dangers of trusting robots

In February, a South Korean woman was sleeping on the floor when her robot vacuum ate her hair, forcing her to call for emergency help. It may not be the dystop…

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How Can You Patent a Dating Website?

"So does the Spark Networks matchmaking patent hold up in a post-Alice world? It depends on how you look at it. From a theoretical legal perspective, “This…