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Nearly 13,000 high school seniors in Florida will not graduate as scheduled this year because they failed to pass a newly required state achievement test.Some school boards aro
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If you ;ve ever tried to get work done at a coffee shop during rush hour, you know that even something as simple as a Google Search can be soul-crushingly slow. Thanks to a new Wi-Fi technology from Qualcomm, though, all that may be about to change. The reason public Wi-Fi hubs have such a terrible traffic for internet speed is that, as it works now, networks are technically only able to take care of one device at a time. So the more users cramming onto the network, the more devices the wireless signal has to jump between and the slower it is for everyone involved. Now, after seven years of research, Qualcomm is announcing a new tec
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