David Segal New York Times

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  This man is not a cyborg - yet

  What Itskov is striving for makes wearable computers, like Google Glass, seem as about as futuristic as Lincoln Logs.

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  Apple's retail army, long on loyalty but short on pay

  Last year, Apple stores sold $16 billion in merchandise worldwide. But most of Apple's employees enjoyed little of that wealth.

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  Google acts to demote distasteful Web sellers

  Google announced on Wednesday that it had changed the way it ranks search results so that unscrupulous merchants would find it harder to appear prominently in searches.The change was prompted by an article in The New York Times  on Sunday...

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  The dirty little secrets of search

  Pretend for a moment that you are Google's search engine. Someone types the word "dresses" and hits enter. What will be the very first result? There are, of course, a lot of possibilities. Macy's comes to mind. Maybe a specialty...

• The dirty little secrets of search

  Pretend for a moment that you are Google's search engine. Someone types the word "dresses" and hits enter. What will be the very first result? There are, of course, a lot of possibilities. Macy's comes to mind. Maybe a specialty chain, like J. Crew or the Gap. Perhaps a Wikipedia entry on the history of hemlines. O.K., how about the word "bedding"?...

• US arrests online seller who scared customers

  Federal law enforcement agents on Monday arrested a Brooklyn Internet merchant who mistreated customers because he thought their online complaints raised the profile of his business in Google searches. The merchant, Vitaly Borker, 34, who operates a Web site called decormyeyes.com, was charged with one count each of mail fraud, wire fraud, making i...

• Google acts to demote distasteful Web sellers

  Google announced on Wednesday that it had changed the way it ranks search results so that unscrupulous merchants would find it harder to appear prominently in searches.The change was prompted by an article in The New York Times  on Sunday about Vitaly Borker, a Brooklyn-based online seller of eyeglasses. Mr. Borker claimed that he purposely sh...

• Bukhara and other places that brag 'Clinton ate here'

  Bill Clinton has dined at Bukhara, an upscale restaurant in New Delhi, on just two occasions, but the afterglow of those visits has never worn off. The clientele, it seems, won't let it. Since that first meal, in 2000, so many customers have uttered some variation of "Give us what the president had," that the restaurant has started serving a mixed-...