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Who needs an ID badge? Wisconsin company institutes chip implants

Three Square Market hopes to have its entire workforce outfitted with implanted RFID chips in the near future as a way of providing access to building amenities and services.

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Fines, schmines! Google is still minting cash (The 3:59, Ep. 256)

Also, the Musk-Zuck AI tussle, implantable RFID chips, and Snopes call for donations.

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Now Facebook is making a speaker too?

That's right, yet another tech giant is reportedly working on a home speaker. Because we don't have enough of those yet, clearly.

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Employees offered RFID chip implants... it's voluntary, for now

A Wisconsin company is the first in the US to offer implanted chips for opening doors and logging in to computers.

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Alphabet's still raking in the cash, despite EU's fine

Google's parent company reports a healthy $26 billion in revenue, never mind that monumental $2.74 billion bill from European regulators.

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House panel wants Google, Facebook CEOs to testify on Internet rules

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the CEOs of top tech companies to testify in September.

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Musk vs. Zuck: Tech titans do battle over AI

Tesla's CEO slams Facebook's CEO for downplaying AI fears. Elon Musk's been lobbying for controls on the supersmart technology.

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WebMD scooped up, MS Paint to be erased?

Today's major tech headlines include the purchase of WebMD by a private equity firm, a possible end of the line for MS Paint and a new AI chip that may be making its way into the next version of Microsoft's Hololens.

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Qualcomm: Apple supporters are trying to misdirect regulators

In a filing with the US International Trade Commission, the chip giant defends its proposed ban of some Apple iPhones.

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Alphabet, even with record EU fine, remains a money machine

The EU calls Google a monopoly. That’s not the only battle its parent company is fighting. Alphabet is also tussling with the US Department of Labor -- and Uber.

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Not fake news: Snopes is in danger of shutting down

Amid a legal battle between its owners, the venerable online fact checker asks for donations to stay in business.

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Facebook cafeteria workers vote to unionize

The social network's contract cafeteria workers are the latest employee group in Silicon Valley to join a labor union.

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