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Cord-cutting for Kids: Video App Kanopy Adds Free Children’s Shows

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If you’ve already liberated yourself from a cable subscription in favor of streaming video services over the Internet, you’re parcelling out your dollars to get the content you want most from services such as Netflix, Hulu, and N.B.A. League Pass.

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Why Friday’s Massive DDoS Attack Should Be Terrifying

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Friday’s attack affected Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, AWS, Airbnb, Reddit, GitHub and many more companies at once. Editor’s note: this post first appeared on TrueVault’s blog. ]. .” — Bruce Schneier. This means these devices will continue to be vehicles for this type of attack for years to come.

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Room Service by Robot And Other Ways Tech is Changing The Hotel Stay

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More days than not, Michael Colaneri’s home is a hotel room. So innovations like “geolocation” sensors that automatically unlock his room door and adjust the thermostat when he’s nearby make the constant change easier—sometimes. “My My experience has been exceptionally inconsistent,” he says.

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Saxena: More Than a Tool, A.I. Must Be Used With Society in Mind

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[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I.

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Blue Squad Aims to Bring Election Tech Up and Down the Ballot

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Austin —All politics is local, the adage goes, and those campaigns are sorely stuck in analog mode. That’s why Shion Deysarkar co-founded Blue Squad two years ago as a “digital coalition” to support progressive candidates by providing them with greater access to accurate voter data.

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Wireless Internet Firms Take On Big Telecoms in Cities and Suburbs

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If you’re a city dweller, and unhappy with the big company that provides your Internet connection, chances are good there’s a scrappy little outfit that thinks it can do better for you.

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Cord Cutting: How to Get High-Speed Internet Without Cable, 2017 Edition

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If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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