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• Jury orders Apple to pay $234 million in iPhone chip patent case

  17-10-2015 01:55
  Apple must pay $234 million in damages for infringing a patent on technology that helped to speed up the chips in some models of iPhone and iPad, a jury in Wisconsin concluded Friday.The jury had found that Apple's A7, A8 and A8X processors used a processing technique developed at the University of Wisconsin in violation of a patent issued in 1998. The chips were used in Apple's iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and some iPads.Apple plans to appeal the verdict, according to Reuters.WARF filed its&nbs
  
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• Deep dive review: The iPhone 6S Plus delivers the goods

  17-10-2015 01:48
  
  Apple's new iPhone 6S Plus looks just like last year's 6 Plus -- but looks in this case are highly deceiving. While the 2014 model represented a major new step in design and performance, this year's version, which arrived on Sept. 25, delivers changes to just about everything you can't see.
  Existing features of the 6S Plus (and its smaller sibling, the 6S) have been improved and there are even a few groundbreaking features thrown in for good measure.
  Unlike the 2014 iPhone launch, when numerous
  
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• As Microsoft pushes voice commands, notifications onto the PC, Google dumps them

  17-10-2015 01:48
  Google’s choice to eliminate voice search and a notifications center from its latest Chrome browser probably means one of two things for PC users: either Microsoft’s own Windows 10 features have won, or Microsoft never should have added them in the first place. 
  Google’s Chrome 46 eliminates the notification center Google installed in the browser beginning in 2013, simply because users never actually used it. And VentureBeat noticed that Chrome for Windows has done a
  
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• Automation expected to cut workforce needs by 25% at IT services firms

  17-10-2015 01:47
  
  That automation will take jobs is a workforce constant. For instance, in 1949 there were 182,500 people employed as telephone operators. It was the peak year. But by last year the number of operators employed by wired carriers had declined to 2,170, according to federal labor data.
  Something similar is on the verge of taking place in back-office IT services jobs, due to automation improvements, with dramatic job cutbacks being forecast, according to a survey done of representatives from about 1
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How Big Data can help save $400 billion in healthcare costs

  17-10-2015 01:43
  
  The proliferation of computers in the daily operation of healthcare providers is generating unprecedented volumes of data. This volume will grow in size and complexity with the expected adoption of low-cost sensors. Some will be prescribe for research purposes, such as pediatricians monitoring asthmatics to find the environmental triggers behind their attacks. Others will be initiated by individuals outfitting themselves with a raft of consumer electronics that measure such signs as heart rate a
  
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• Valve takes a pledge: No ads on Steam

  17-10-2015 01:28
  
  For those worried about ads creeping onto their game consoles, Valve is promising that Steam will be a safe haven.
  “We don’t see a case for that ever getting user value,” Valve’s Erik Johnson told GameSpot, when asked if users might ever see ads for a product like Doritos on the platform. “So we wouldn’t do it. I don’t think that those ever work, either. To take it a step further, I don’t think anybody buys Doritos as a result of that.”
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