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California helps low-income drivers switch to electric cars
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Rand Paul: ‘I will force the Patriot Act to expire’
How a handful of companies is forging the future of robotics engineering
Google Calendar will stop sending SMS notifications on June 27, 2015
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Google’s surprising portal into the future of virtual reality
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Google will hold Ubiquitous Computing Summit in San Francisco this fall
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview for PCs with Cortana keyboard shortcut, default to filtered Taskbar in virtual desktops
Android Pay’s debut means Google Wallet will live on as a P2P payments app
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Salesforce acquires smart calendar app Tempo AI, will shut it down on June 30
