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Verizon texting outage hits customers on East Coast

If you have Verizon service and your text messages weren’t sending this morning, it wasn’t just you. Starting Tuesday at around 8:30 a.m. ET, many Verizon customers in the eastern US experienced an outage affecting their text messages. Verizon confirmed the outage in a number of tweets, saying that the problem affected “a ton of customers” and that its technicians were …

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Flying cars coming in 5 years, says Intel drone chief (Q&A)

Drones are useful today for real estate photos and gas pipeline inspections. They could be useful tomorrow for home security and package delivery. But in a half decade, they could well shuttle you to work over the heads of drivers stuck in traffic. That’s what Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, expects. Drone innovation combined with people paying …

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