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Mounting investor interest in agricultural technology

Jul 31, 2019
The sector has to balance a spike in investor interest with the cost of labor and infrastructure.
Micro greens grow at a vertical farm in Newark, New Jersey.
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Screen-free parenting coaches are cropping up around the country

Can't figure out a way to occupy your child that isn't device-based? There's a consultant for that.
Children's screen use often worries parents.
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IBM's $34B plan to build a "hybrid cloud"

Jul 9, 2019
IBM has worn many different hats since its foundation. Now it's acquired one more: Red Hat.
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Audio augmented reality is about to make headphones a lot smarter

Jun 17, 2019
It seems more and more people wear headphones all day. Now tech companies are working on ways to feed directions, notifications and, yes, advertisements into our ears.
There is an increasingly large choice of headphones available, and companies are working to make them smarter.
Thomas Samson
A science teacher works with students in a high school in Homestead, Florida, in 2017.
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What exactly is Huawei? What you need to know.

Jun 10, 2019
Get yourself up to speed on the race to own 5G, surveillance concerns and the vast reach of this $100 billion company.
A reception area at the Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong province.
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Is it time for U.S. businesses to rethink their Chinese partnerships?

May 22, 2019
Democratic Senator Mark Warner has been urging American executives to reflect on the risks.
An investor reads a newspaper in front of screens showing stock market movements at a securities company in Beijing on May 14, 2019.
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Is your phone listening to your conversations?

May 17, 2019
Companies don't need to eavesdrop to target ads — we give them plenty of information.
Social media can be a tool for human connection, but some experts say some follower-type platforms can instead exacerbate loneliness.
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"How We Survive": suggested reading on climate change adaptation

May 13, 2019
In addition to sharing our coverage of climate change adaptation on "Marketplace Tech," we also want to highlight great writing, important documents and interesting facets of the bigger conversations in play.
Sylvia Li

Sometimes it takes a big prize to solve big tech problems

Apr 22, 2019
Could a $10 million prize be a catalyst for environmental innovation?
Water in the St. Lucie River is covered by a blue-green algae bloom, plaguing the river as it accumulates at the St. Lucie Lock and Dam in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on July 5, 2016.
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