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Apple iPad sales are up year on year for the first time since 2014

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO, holds an iPad Pro after his keynote address to Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. Apple reported its fiscal third quarter 2017 results on Tuesday afternoon — and while all eyes were on iPhone …

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Here are the 5 favorite AI stocks from Wall Street’s top analysts

Kay Nietfeld | AFP | Getty Images Facebook founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg (C) speaks to German Chief of Staff Peter Altmaier (R) at the so-called ‘Facebook Innovation Hub’ in Berlin on February 25, 2016. TipRanks has identified the top analysts in technology coverage and found which artificial intelligence (AI) …

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Review: An Ayn Rand Affair and God’s Squash Game, at Summer Shorts

Photo From left, Orlagh Cassidy, Sam Lilja and Brontë England-Nelson in “Acolyte,” part of the Summer Shorts mini-festival at 59E59 Theaters. Credit Carol Rosegg Ayn Rand’s life was so extraordinary it was made to be fictionalized. Graham Moore did just that in his one-act play “Acolyte,” which revolves around Rand’s …

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Bitcoin ‘mining’ goes from enthusiasts to giant enterprises

Ver now heads bitcoin mining hardware seller and mining contracts firm Bitcoin.com. “The demand is just incredible,” he said. Some models of AMD and Nvidia graphics cards have sold out in the last few months due to high demand from digital currency miners. Through their partners, the companies are now …

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Dish Network becomes latest telecom stock to spike on report SoftBank may buy it

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Corp. Shares of Dish Network jumped more than 2 percent in midday trading Tuesday after a report said SoftBank was exploring a possible merger of Sprint, the U.S. wireless company it controls, and the …

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With iPhone and Stickers, a Doodling Artist That Dreams Big

Photo Mr. Burgerman’s primary technique is to overlay doodles onto scenes of everyday life in New York, adding a stylized bird into the lap of a distracted subway rider, say, or sketching a quick pair of faces onto a bunch of bananas. Credit Ben Ritter for The New York Times …

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Leave voters thinking Brexit is worth damaging the economy: Poll

Peter Nicholls | Reuters A supporter of Britain leaving the EU, attends an event in London, Feb. 19, 2016. Voters who supported the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union seem adamant that they made the right decision last year. A recent YouGov poll found that 61 percent of people …

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Kenneth Branagh to Direct Tom Hiddleston in ‘Hamlet’

Photo Tom Hiddleston will star in a production of “Hamlet” in London starting on Sept. 1. Credit Frazer Harrison/Getty Images LONDON — Tom Hiddleston will star in a new production of “Hamlet,” directed by Kenneth Branagh, opening on Sept. 1 and running just three weeks. But don’t get out your …

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No plan yet on Kushner’s flagship Manhattan tower: Vornado CEO

Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images The building owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York. The fate of the flagship Manhattan office tower partially owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is still being …

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India suicide rate increases as high temperatures destroy crops, study finds

Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images A farmer works in a millet field while cattle graze nearby on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, on June 9, 2017. Climate change has been linked to the suicides of almost 60,000 farmers over the last three decades in India, a study published …

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