Ernest is a bit difficult to describe. It's a device, it's two devices, it's an app, and according to its founder, Arturs Pumpurs, it's a kind of virtual butler. The system secures your vehicle, tells you where it is, and controls your garage door or, if you have one, gate. The Kickstarter campaign starts October 28 and runs through December 7. The project began as a… Read More
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Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New England newspapers:
The Hartford Courant (Conn.), Oct. 22, 2016
Mornings are cool, fog shrouds the road to work, and autumn, that entrance into the dark tunnel of winter, is fully arrived.
Fall's an ironic season. For poets, it's a ...
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ProPublica pointed to some potentially problematic Facebook ad capabilities today — specifically, the ability to include or exclude users from a given ad campaign based on their "ethnic affinity." These capabilities have existed for a while (Facebook told ProPublica's Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. it began offering them within the past two years as part of its… Read More 
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Newly uncovered emails that forced the FBI to reopen its investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email use were reportedly found when federal officials seized devices from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner.
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GRANTS, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico county has conditionally approved a contract to house Haitian immigration detainees at a private prison.
The Gallup Independent reports (http://bit.ly/2dPrKXT ) that the Cibola County Commission voted Wednesday to approve the contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
County attorney Dave Pato says the ...
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Twitter is testing a new design of the @reply that is intended to 'clean up' the conversation view by completely removing usernames from tweets. I'm in the test bucket (a group of users that Twitter is having take the features for a spin to see how they react) and it is a mess. Read More 
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GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is rethinking his charge that the political system is "rigged" against him, following the FBI's announcement that it has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
"It might not be as rigged as I thought," Mr. Trump said Friday at a campaign rally in New ...
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The shedding of various other ports in favor of ThunderBolt 3 ubiquity will no doubt be one of the biggest pain points for many when it comes to upgrading to the new MacBooks. Though the new ports do have benefits. Take the fact that the 15-inch version is capable of powering up to four 4K displays simultaneously. It's overkill, likely for 99.9-percent of us, but hey, it's nice to… Read More 
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Clinton campaign staffers became fed up with the friendly relationship between one of the Democratic Party's staunchest labor allies and Vice President Joe Biden.
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Former President Bill Clinton urged his wife's campaign team to beat Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary by telling voters that Republicans would be happy if Hillary Clinton lost the nomination, according to leaked emails published Friday.
Robby Mook, Mrs. Clinton's campaign manager, wrote in an email in January ...
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2016 has been quite a ride for the players in AI, NLP and ML technologies. From the famous advent of Microsoft Tay at the end of Q1 to the numerous acquisitions of AI and chatbot companies during the latter half of this year, artificial intelligence has been in the headlines every other day. But can chatbots help build your next website? Read More 
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico state senator says the Taxation and Revenue Department has agreed to halt a practice of automatically withholding income tax refunds from many foreign nationals without social security numbers who file income taxes under alternative tax identification numbers provided by the IRS.
Sen. ...
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The game-changing nature of virtualization in the server world has led many in IT to assume it would automatically translate to networking. The idea inspired the network functions virtualization architecture that has gripped some circles of the industry with great exuberance. But success in one domain does not ensure success in another. Read More 
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A new government audit is raising questions about the cost of presidential travel, outlining how a 2013 trip by President Obama to Chicago and Palm Beach cost taxpayers $3.6 million, excluding classified costs, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The Richland County Recreation Commission has refused the governor's request to turn over an internal report into possible sexual harassment by the commission's indicted former leader.
Gov. Nikki Haley asked for the report last week as she decides on a request from several Richland County lawmakers ...
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Gfycat, the startup that recently raised a whopping $10 million for its user-generated content platform that lets you creating silent, looping animations and videos, has now launched its first mobile app. Designed for iMessage, Gfycat lets you search for, send and create your own "Gfycat Loops," which you can also augment with your own emojis and captions. There are already a number… Read More 
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Vice President Joe Biden has reportedly been added to a potential shortlist of Hillary Clinton's choices for secretary of state if she were to be elected president in November.
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