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New Technology Is the Ally of Older People

Smartphones, e-readers and other devices aid people who might have trouble seeing or remembering where they parked the car.

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Seagate Emphasizes Backups in New Hard Drive Line

Seagate's new line of consumer hard drives, Backup Plus, is slim, attractive and easy to use.

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Seagate's Latest Hard Drives Strive for Style and Simplicity

Seagate, the hard drive maker, is redoing its consumer line-up with a new product that should make its mission crystal clear to shoppers. Named Backup Plus, the slim (14.5 millimeters) hard drive moves...

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Review of Reviews: The Surface

Here is what other tech product reviewers thought of the Microsoft Surface.

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What's Next for Tumblr and Instagram

Kevin Systrom, of Instagram, and David Karp, of Tumblr, gave some indication of the problems they'd like their services to solve.

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For Nest Thermostat, Gray Markets as Focus Group

Nest, the sleek learning thermostat, is officially sold in only two countries, the United States and Canada. But it is being used in 65 countries. Its maker looks at the gray market as a market...

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Review Roundup: The Silicon Valley Reality Show

The reality show "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" on Bravo was uniformly panned by critics, who thought it offered few insights into how the Valley really worked, and was not quite grotesque enough to be...

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Test Run: Evernote Food

Evernote has always been useful as a way to record recipes and restaurants. But Evernote Food, a revised app from the same company, does an even better job.

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John Karlin's research quietly yet emphatically defined the experience of using the telephone in the mid-20th century and afterward, from ushering in all-digit dialing to casting the shape of the...

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Michael Dell's buyout offer for his company is an apparent bet that he can get it back on track in the midst of industry upheaval.

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Zapping Bugs With the Wave of a Racket

Zapping mosquitoes with an electrified tennis racket might seem to be a surefire entrant into the World’s Dumbest Ideas Hall of Fame. But the Stinger Portable Bug Zapper actually works.

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We Need Oil. They Need Pig.

Imagine if the Chinese, in a fit of pique, decided they would not sell this country another ham hock or breakfast link.

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Lighter and Faster, It’s iPad Air

The improvements on the new tablet are incremental, not revolutionary, but Apple still holds the edge compared with the other tablets on the market.

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Which iPad? It Depends. What Do You Want to Do?

The iPad Mini complements Apple’s already best-in-class tablet offerings, so deciding which one to get boils down to what you will use it for.

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Be Careful With Coin

Coin, a device that will hold the information from all your credit cards, sounds like just the device you need. But buyers need to closely read the fine print.

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A Digital Pen Combines Writing and Recording

The Livescribe 3 pen technology sends what you write to your iOS device, complete with audio capture.

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Order Chinese, and Not by the Numbers

Waygo, an iPhone app, translates Chinese characters, like those found in restaurant menus.

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Robot Vacuum Makes War on Cat Hair

The Roomba 880 from iRobot has the same hockey-puck look as the previous models, but does a superior job in cleaning dust bunnies and pet hair. But the cost may scare off prospective buyers.

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Forty-Four Years of Earth Day

By a number of measures, the United States is cleaner than it was on the first Earth Day in 1970.

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Silicon Valley May Be in a Bubble, but It’s Not 2000

Mary Meeker, the renowned technology analyst, says technology valuations today are rational. Are they?

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