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Robots get personal
Mar 29, 2012
Even creative work -- like journalism -- is up for robotization.
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A trip across the country with no human contact
Mar 28, 2012
Fight it if you want, but the robots are coming. Marketplace’s David Brancaccio is embarking on a deep investigative experiment on how robots are taking over. Plus, what is the Instagrammiest Instagram photo?
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Robots and the hourglass economy
Mar 28, 2012
Technology is -- by some economists' accounts -- causing a hollowing out of middle income jobs.
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Robots ate my road trip, day three
Mar 27, 2012
Almost halfway through his coast to coast, robot-fueled journey, David Brancaccio has to heat up dinner on his car's exhaust.
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Good robots make jobs
Mar 27, 2012
Robots have come a long way -- from factories and into homes -- and jobs for robot makers and minders are on the upswing.
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Robots everywhere
Mar 26, 2012
From grocery self-checkout to your home accounting software to "Godzillas" working the assembly lines, technology is fundamentally changing the American workforce.
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ISPs to take on illegal downloading, politely
Mar 19, 2012
Several Internet service providers are set to take on a graduated approach to combating online piracy starting this summer, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Facebook treats brands like they're people
Mar 1, 2012
Facebook has always had a bit of a slippery relationship to words as we understand them in the English language. Now, brands can chat and have Timelines but still lack corporeal form.
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In the future, you'll take medicine without taking medicine
Feb 17, 2012
Scientists working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully tested a system to deliver medicine into a patient's body thought an implanted chip.
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Microsoft developer builds robot to keep his dog company during the day
Feb 10, 2012
Rover, meet R2
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