Provisions in a recent trade pact will pose challenges for scientific breakthroughs

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The USPTO modernized the PAIR Bulk Data (beta), now allowing customers to retrieve and download multiple records of the filing status of U.S. patent applications or patents at no cost.

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Terror attacks create interest and concern about #facialrecognition tech https://t.co/dVS7yy0IEd via @BiometricUpdate

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KLM has become the first airline in the world to enable users to put their boarding passes into Facebook Messenger.

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ICICI Bank has announced a new mobile payment system that will let you make in-store payments using your Android device, without the need to physically carry your debit or credit cards.

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Want to learn more about Google’s mobile payment system? This FAQ will help answer your questions and more.

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Switzerland’s five biggest banks are talking to retailers and financial infrastructure provider SIX Group about a joint mobile payments service.

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When it comes to China’s internet giants, there’s barely a player that hasn’t entered the world of online financing. Following in the footsteps of Alibaba, many of these companies…

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In the recent Econsultancy/Adobe Quarterly Digital Intelligence briefing, 25% of companies said they placed most emphasis on “making our experience as personalised and relevant as possible” in terms of improving the overall customer experience.

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Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch.

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