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Apple, Samsung fail to settle before March trial

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month.The companies detailed the lack of progress in a court filing ...

Comcast strikes deal to buy Time Warner Cable

LOS ANGELES -- With a single behemoth purchase, Comcast is creating a dominant force in American entertainment and presenting federal regulators with an equally outsized quandary: How should they handle a conglomerate that promises to improve cable TV and Internet service to millions of homes ...

Sochi airport uses Silicon Valley facial recognition software

At the international airport in Sochi, Russia, the entry point for thousands of athletes, spectators and world leaders bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a state-of-the-art security system made by a Silicon Valley company is keeping watch.Artec Group, a 3-D camera tech company founded in the ...

John Hopkins researchers working on bitcoin alternative

BALTIMORE -- Inside a drab computer lab at Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.The untraceable currency is designed to compete with other ...

Facebook barrels ahead on 10th anniversary

NEW YORK -- It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.They did. And in the decade since, so have more than a billion people, not just American college students but also farmers in ...

‘TV everywhere’ might not cut your $150-a-month cable bill

Charter's bid to buy Time Warner Cable comes at a time of sharp and rising competition in the broadband Internet and pay-TV business. For the consumer, that promises faster and faster Internet speeds and more and more high-definition channels.It means further advances toward "TV everywhere," ...