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Gawker Media’s new owner tries to wipe the slate clean

Univision Communications, the new owner of Gawker Media Group, has deleted six posts from the online publisher that are the subject of litigation, Reuters reported Saturday. Univision, which bought Gawker for $135 million in a bankruptcy proceeding last month, said it wants to create a “clean slate” for the site, according to a memo from company executives that Reuters obtained. …

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Zebra helps the NFL get into data overdrive

A nondescript building hidden away in Silicon Valley might hold the key to an NFL team’s Super Bowl chances. Inside, dozens of colorful computers and widescreens at Zebra Technologies‘ command center intricately track the on-field movements of all the nearly 1,700 players active across each week’s National Football League games. The San Jose, California-based company gets the data through nickel-size …

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Japan’s military are the heroes in new Godzilla film

Cinema’s most infamous giant monster is invading theaters again with the film “Godzilla Resurgence” (“Shin Godzilla” in Japan). But our favorite giant green menace won’t be battling his usual fellow kaiju creatures like Mothra, Gigan, Hedorah, King Ghidorah or Rodan. In “Godzilla Resurgence” — which has already made box office records this year in Japan — it’s the military that …

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iOS 10: 23 hidden features

Now playing: Watch this: iOS 10: Five hidden features you may have missed 1:49 Apple doesn’t tout every new feature in iOS 10. There are the obvious add-ons, like Messages now has its own App Store, and Siri can work with apps, but there’s much more to iOS 10 than that. Control Center now has 3D Touch, read receipts can …

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 problems just keep getting worse (The 3:59, Ep. 104)

Put your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 down and walk away. That’s pretty much the message from federal regulators, following about three dozen incidents where the phones either overheated or exploded. Samsung is working with the US government to recall the devices, and not a moment too soon. Problems with the phones keep cropping up, including a Note 7 bursting into …

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​Apple’s Swift Playgrounds app will lure your kid into coding

“This is cool.” With those three words from my 11-year-old son, I knew Apple had a hit on its hands with Swift Playgrounds, its iPad app for learning the company’s Swift programming language. We didn’t exactly have to pry him away, but he had reached that just-one-more-level-before-dinner type of self-motivation that warms an educator’s heart. The app is free. So …

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