Follow Us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork An explosion of on-demand apps gives a modern twist to some old traditions and even delivers us some new ones we didn’t know we needed. October 29 was a typical workday for thousands of people in the US, except for one thing: a fuzzy kitten showed up on their desks. […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NEARLY a century ago, Harvard had a big problem: Too many Jews. By 1922, Jews accounted for 21.5 percent of freshmen, up from 7 percent in 1900 and vastly more than at Yale or Princeton. In the Ivy League, only Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania had
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Technology has been accused of making many a job disappear, like the production line or the accounting office. And it is not done yet. A company often resembles its communication and technology system. In the era of cloud computing that the tech industry is moving into, that seems to suggest
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoafricaNetwork WASHINGTON — As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick. Those same insurers have long viewed government as an unreliable
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Follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs and videos with far greater accuracy than ever before, sometimes even mimicking human levels of understanding. Until now, so-called computer vision has largely been limited to
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork WHAT IS COLOGUARD? Cologuard is an easy to use, noninvasive colon cancer screening test based on the latest advances in stool DNA science. It can be used by men and women 50 years of age and older who are at average risk for colon cancer. Cologuard finds both cancer and
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork When your server is a screen, you spend more money. Have you ever been to a Chili’s? Have you ever placed an order for the World-Famous Baby Back Ribs? Have you ever decided to, what the heck, make it a Full Rack, with some Homestyle Fries and Cinnamon Apples on the
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Chili’s, the casual-dining chain, will begin to offer customers access to tabletop computer screens at more than 800 locations in the U.S., starting Tuesday rolling out through early 2014. The Wall Street Journal reports customers will be able to use the tablets to order food and drinks, pay the bill,
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can buy this new model now for $149. Is it worth it? Think all the best tablet deals are for Android tablets? Think again. E Fun announced today that its new Nextbook 8 Windows tablet will sell for just $99 in Walmart
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ATLANTA — This city would seem a peculiar place for sober conversation about the conduct of William T. Sherman. To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous
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