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Carrier IQ privacy flap may spur new federal law The embattled software maker is already the subject of lawsuits and probes by two federal agencies, but one member of Congress thinks another federal law is necessary.
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Ultrasound one step closer to killing sperm--and the vasectomy Researchers find that a non-invasive ultrasound treatment dramatically reduces the sperm count of rats, but aren't sure if it's reversible.
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Apple: Test your luck! Maybe we'll let you buy an iPhone If you want to buy an iPhone 4S in Hong Kong, you might have to enter a lottery to win the chance to buy a phone.
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Three killer reasons Facebook's IPO could be worth $100 billion Is Facebook worth $100 billion? It certainly has achieved success in three key areas on a scale no other company ever has.
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Who needs Ferris Bueller? Super Bowl ad touts entrepreneurship The Kauffman Foundation funds a 30-second spot that highlights the contributions to society of the "star athletes of the economy."
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China carrier deal could mean 40M extra iPhones in 2013 Apple is once again rumored to be working on deals to bring the iPhone to two of China's largest carriers, a move that Morgan Stanley says could bring in 40 million extra iPhones sold by the company in 2013.
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'Ferris Bueller' Super Bowl teaser just a Honda CR-V commercial The original video, released last week, was an Internet sensation and raised hopes that a new "Ferris Bueller" installment was in the works. Turns out it's for a Honda commercial.
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Facebook IPO filing could be around the corner The social network's initial public offering could be the biggest ever for an Internet company. And when Facebook starts selling shares to the public, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is likely to be worth $24 billion.
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Startup Secret No. 27: Brains over Background It's harder to hire for intelligence than experience, but for startups, what you want in a new employee is a flexible mind.
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Yahoo cleaning house, kills a bunch of mobile apps The online giant says Yahoo Meme, Yahoo Mim, and Yahoo Deals, among several other apps, have been discontinued.
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Researchers still stuck on electronic tattoo Elastic electronics can be used for a range of bio-electronic devices to improve medical monitoring attached to the skin or implanted on brain, heart, or muscles to provide treatment.
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Facebook worth $100 billion? Nintendo announces an online gaming network, Twitter censorship policy stirs up protests, and Facebook is expected to make its stock market launch this week.
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Another day, another accusation that Zynga is copying competitors The social-gaming company has been charged by Buffalo Studios with copying its popular Facebook title, Bingo Blitz.
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Google ratchets up VP8 video quality--but so do video rivals The "Duclair" release brings Google's royalty-free video encoder software to version 1.0.0. But a sequel to rival H.264 is waiting in the wings, too.
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Is Verizon readying a family data plan? Carrier may soon allow multiple devices to share a single data plan, according to a blog post by Engadget.
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Thailand to Twitter: We welcome your local-ban policy The country's Information and Communication Technology Ministry says it will work with Twitter to ensure tweets disseminated in the country are in compliance with local laws.
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Apple engineers: Work on fake gear, earn company trust? That's the claim made by a former Apple employee speaking to author Adam Lashinsky about a similar assertion in his new book, "Inside Apple."
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SOPA support gets UFC president hacked Anonymous is suspected of posting personal information, including the Social Security number, of mixed-martial artist honcho Dana White after he made comments supportive of SOPA and critical of Anonymous.
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IBM: Tiny carbon nanotube transistor outshines silicon In the pursuit of smaller transistors, IBM Research found that carbon nanotubes outperform silicon on speed and power consumption, offering a possible way to maintain the pace of Moore's Law.
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Kindle Fire stokes interest in Amazon earnings With Amazon reporting fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow, the main attractions will be tablet figures and the effect on sales of e-books, music, video, and apps.
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Futuristic Navy railgun with 220-mile range closer to reality A $10 million contract with Raytheon for the Pulse Forming Network means that the newfangled weapon system, which uses electromagnetic energy instead of explosives to fire, is one step closer to deployment.
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Ex-RIM CEO Lazaridis to buy $50M in additional stock Mike Lazaridis, who very recently stepped down as co-CEO, on new chief Thorsten Heins: "I absolutely know he will take this company to new heights."
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Kindle Fire sales strong in Q4, but no match for iPad Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordon Rohan says Amazon might have sold 6 million Kindle Fire tablets last quarter.
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How LevelUp aims to shake up mobile payments By using smartphone apps and QR codes, the startup hopes to get around the barriers that most companies face with doing in-store mobile payments.
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Lawyer sues exes over unkind words on Web He alleges that the two women have rather prominently defamed him. Now we will see whether hell hath no fury like a TV lawyer scorned.
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MegaUpload data could be erased Thursday, says report With MegaUpload's assets frozen--and no way for it to pay the storage firms it used--and with the feds unable to further access servers now that search warrants have been executed, data could begin getting wiped, says the Associated Press.
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Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal, and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails.
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Supremes to Congress: Bring privacy law into 21st century commentary The justices have ruled that GPS tracking requires a warrant. Now Congress needs to act to balance privacy and public safety regarding location data.
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NEC to cut 10,000 jobs as iPhone continues assault on Japan Most of the cuts, which may begin March 31, will be from NEC's mobile phone business and will include both full- and part-time positions. Apple's device has made hash of predictions that it wouldn't take off in Japan.
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Report: New Nook coming this spring A feature about Barnes & Noble in The New York Times mentions the pending arrival of a fifth Nook device this spring.
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Is Facebook run by sociopaths? A commentator on the Guardian suggests that "companies such as Facebook are the corporate world's equivalent of sociopaths." Might this be true?
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Won't buy Apple products anymore? Then don't stop there In the wake of some calls for an Apple boycott, it's worth noting that human-intensive mass production has faced problems with abysmal working conditions in just about every major industrial economy.
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Apple-Foxconn relationship probed by 'Sunday Morning' (video) Reporter Martha Teichner of the CBS News program "Sunday Morning" looks at Apple supplier Foxconn's labor practices (and Apple's response to the situation) in this video segment featuring industry insiders and observers.
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A 'thermal battery' for villages in India Startup Promethean Power had to ditch its dream of solar-powered milk chillers in rural India, but the company hit on a novel energy storage system that's cheaper and overcomes the unreliable grid.
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Novel cooling method for hot milk in India (photos) Startup Promethean Power is developing a "thermal battery" that gets around unreliable power service in India at a clean-tech incubator in a converted warehouse in South Boston.
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Apple, Google under scrutiny over no-poaching charges At issue is whether some of the titans of tech conspired not to hire each other's employees. Attorney Joe Saveri argues the alleged conspiracy kept workers salaries artificially low by stifling competition.
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Social-network update: Facebook up; Twitter slow? Hackers did not take down Facebook today, as they had earlier claimed they would. Meanwhile, the pace of tweets appears to have slowed amid an ongoing Twitter boycott. And Twitter's lawyer responds.
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Gates sent dying Jobs a letter he kept bedside An interview with Microsoft's Bill Gates in The Telegraph is just the latest to show he and the late Steve Jobs had a strong relationship at the time of the Apple leader's death.
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A self-driving car, but thankfully a BMW BMW has revealed that it, too, has entered the self-driving car arena, inserting self-driving technology in a 5 Series car.
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Android screen chaos: A feature, not a bug Programmers using Google's mobile operating system must reckon with upfront work for the wide range of Android screens, but the benefit is flexibility.
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Google doodle animates world's biggest snowflake Google's latest charming doodle commemorates an event of which few might be aware: a 15-inch diameter snowflake that attacked Montana.
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Can an MP3 sound better than a Blu-ray? High-resolution formats define the upper limit of quality, but if the recording's mix was overcompressed and processed, a lossless file won't sound great.
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Top-rated reviews of the week (photos) Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the HP Envy 15, Nikon Coolpix S8200, and the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx.
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For Apple, best numbers yet, mixed press on how it got there We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple's supply chain that made that possible, in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly.
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Adobe shows the raw, dark side of Photoshop CS6 Photoshop CS6 will get a dark gray interface by default and, of course it inherits Lightroom 4's new raw-image editing controls.
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Twitter boycott looms with censorship accusations When Twitter announced it would withhold tweets country-by-country based on local restrictions, it said it was being more transparent. But some users disagree.
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Anonymous takes aim over Europe's SOPA Hackers are attacking sites and looking to expose information on European officials in response to the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA critics say it's even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act floated in the U.S.
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Microsoft's Kelihos botnet suspect says he's innocent St. Petersburg, Russia-based Andrey N. Sabelnikov says he is "absolutely not guilty" of participating in the creation of the huge spam network that Microsoft shut down last September.
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Windows 8 stable on ARM, going to developers soon, say sources Windows 8 on ARM is coming along nicely, thank you, according to a couple of sources with whom CNET spoke.
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PS Vita game prices fluctuate before launch The bean counters at Sony need to make up their minds on how they are pricing PS Vita games.
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What's a PS Vita game cost? Ask again tomorrow The bean counters at Sony need to make up their minds on how they are pricing PS Vita games.
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Hey, AT&T, quit whining! Instead of complaining about the FCC's decision to squash the T-Mobile merger and blaming the agency for raising prices, AT&T needs to shut up and move on.
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Google thinks that Google+ is Google. Is it? If Google+ and Google search aren't two different things, there's no conflict in emphasizing Google+ in search results. Right?
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Apple eyeing move to 'programmable magnets'? Coded magnets could introduce new means of data transfer and user interfaces, indicates patent application uncovered by Patently Apple.
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Jobs e-mail to Schmidt suggests no-poaching deal in play A newly unearthed e-mail exchange between Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt shows Jobs actively telling Google not to try to hire its employees, resulting in the firing of at least one recruiter.
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Will the Nintendo Network...work? Nintendo says it's streamlining its online experience across multiple platforms. Here's what the company needs to do for it to work.
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PlayStation Vita will launch with 8GB card for limited time Sony announces the "Launch Bundle" version of its PlayStation Vita, which will include a 8GB card and free game for the same price as the 3G/Wi-Fi model.
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EU Commission: Go ahead, Sony, own 'Sony Ericsson' The European Commission OKs Sony's buyout of the Sony Ericsson brand, bringing us one step closer to Sony-branded mobile phones.
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Lifelens malaria app wins Microsoft 'Imagine Cup' grant Microsoft announces that Team Lifelens of the U.S., a finalist in the 2011 Imagine Cup competition, has won a $75,000 grant.
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Untethered tech: Wireless sensors monitor brain waves It used to be that electroencephalography required users to sit still for a computer to track the brain's impulses. New advances have made that technology wireless and mobile.
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Reporters' Roundtable: Apple's China problem iPhones, iPads, and most other small electronics are assembled in vast factories in China. Reports on working conditions at these plants are not favorable. We talk with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg and monologuist Mike Daisey.
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Apple's iPad turns 2: A look back and ahead Apple's iPad made its debut two years ago today. CNET takes a look back at its origins, its successes, and what's rumored to be coming next.
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At 'Twitter for video' Tout, happy celebs mean explosive growth day on the job For Tout director of community and content Gardner Loulan, a normal day can mean shooting music videos, providing customer service, and rushing off to show NFL players how to use the startup's micro-video service.
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Google Music update makes service useful for backing up tunes The Web giant's two-month-old music service now offers users the ability to download songs in bulk, easing the process of restoring a PC music library.
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Vintage 3D 'wiggle GIFs' respun with library's cool tool In its push to reinvent itself in the Web era, the New York Public Library releases the Stereogranimator, a tool that lets users create flickering 3D GIFs from its archive of "stereographs."
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Facebook could file IPO by Wednesday, aims for $100B valuation The WSJ reports that Facebook could file to raise as much as $100B next week, and that Morgan Stanley may be its lead underwriter.
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Facebook could file IPO next week, aims for $100B valuation The WSJ reports that Facebook could file next Wednesday to raise as much as $10B, and that Morgan Stanley may be its lead underwriter.
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Facebook could file a $100B IPO next Wednesday The WSJ reports that Facebook could file to raise as much as $100B next week, and that Morgan Stanley may be its lead underwriter.
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Facebook reportedly set to file for IPO Wednesday The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook could file to go public as early as Wednesday.
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Nintendo to rename Wii U? Rumor has it that Nintendo is considering a name change for its upcoming Wii successor.
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Would you ditch your wireless carrier for love? This edition of Ask Maggie explores whether or not it's worth it for couples to combine their cell phone service into a family plan.
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Early-stage incubator launches at Harvard The Experiment Fund, a seed-stage investment fund that is backed by New Enterprise Associates, is opening its doors at Harvard. Its goal is to support students' ventures.
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Apple's bittersweet week week in review Apple reports record earnings but grapples with worker condition criticism. Also, the Supreme Court strikes down warrantless GPS tracking and RIM gets a new CEO.
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Canadian teens send Legonaut 15 miles into atmosphere Two 12th graders send a Lego man 80,000 feet up to record some incredible visuals of the planet.
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Create word clouds with Wordle Create word clouds from text with different fonts, layouts, colors, and more.
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U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra is stepping down Having served since May, 2009, Chopra was responsible for advancing President Obama's tech agenda. According to Fedscoop, he will be leaving the White House imminently. There is no word on what he will be doing next.
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U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra is logging off According to Fedscoop, he will be leaving the White House imminently, with no word on what he'll be doing next.
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Former Palm CEO Rubinstein out at HP, report says Jon Rubinstein, who was brought into the fold after HP acquired Palm, will be parting ways after a failed bid to turn WebOS into a mobile powerhouse.
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Former Palm CEO Rubinstein out at HP Jon Rubinstein, who was brought into the fold after Hewlett-Packard acquired Palm, is leaving the company after a failed bid to turn WebOS into a mobile powerhouse.
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Startup Secret No. 26: Big fish, small pond There are big advantages to hiring developers in small communities. A built-in protection against your employees being poached, for one thing.
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Apple catches flak in China supply chain saga roundup The maker of iPads and iPhones is hardly alone among tech companies that rely heavily on Chinese factories under scrutiny for labor practices. But it's become the flashpoint.
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Hydrogen 'sponge' could extend EV driving range Novel molecules with as much surface area per volume as a football field could be used to store more hydrogen than compressed gas, extending the range of fuel-cell electric vehicles.
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German court tosses second Samsung suit against Apple It's another blow to Samsung Electronics' increasingly back-and-forth legal battle with Apple.
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Apple-Foxconn tale goes well beyond Apple, and tech Apple is under fire for its supply chain labor, but every tech item--indeed, everything you own--goes through the same manufacturing paces.
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New RIM CEO backtracks on 'change' comment RIM CEO Thorsten Heins says there has actually been a lot of ongoing changes, clarifying his earlier comments, which set off a wave of concern.
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New RIM CEO: No, really, there's 'a lot of change' here Thorsten Heins backtracks to clarify earlier comments that suggested a lack of urgency to make changes at RIM, which set off a wave of concern.
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Friday Poll: Do you like Facebook Timeline? Facebook Timeline is now a requirement, not an option. Are you digging the new profile look--with its long history and constant friend updates--or are you pining for the old days?
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Solar storm fuels stunning auroras (video) You couldn't ask for a better show for a night out in the elements. A time-lapse video shows the auroras produced by this week's solar radiation storm.
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Samsung's Q4 profit rides high on Galaxy smartphones Strong sales of its Android smartphones helped propel both revenue and profit for the Korean consumer electronic giant.
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Samsung's 4Q profit rises thanks to Galaxy smartphones Strong sales of its Android smartphones helped propel the Korean consumer electronic giant's revenue and profit for the period.
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That was fast: Fab.com closes in on 2M members E-commerce site Fab.com claims it's the fastest growing site on the planet. Now can we please have some more details?
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Google Earth 6.2 seamlessly stitches over mismatched patchwork Unsightly mosaic artifacts no longer mar Google Earth's high-altitude views. But for an even more singular look at the planet, check Flickr's latest NASA contribution.
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Flickr Pro tweaks are fine, but we need bigger changes Flickr automatically charges credit cards to renew premium accounts. That change is smart but nowhere near what's needed to restore an ailing brand.
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Flickr Pro tweaked, but bigger changes needed Flickr automatically charges credit cards to renew premium accounts. That change is smart but nowhere near what's needed to restore an ailing brand.
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Hawaiian politician backs away from Web dossier law A state legislator who proposed requiring Internet providers to record every Web site their customers visited is now backing away from the idea.
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U.S.-backed battery firm Ener1 seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy Another company that received backing from the U.S. Department of Energy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Tim Cook: Apple cares about 'every worker' in its supply chain Apple's CEO responds to report about working conditions at a factory in China, saying that any suggestion it doesn't care about worker welfare is "false and offensive."
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Gingrich: Space colony yay! Romney: Nay! The two Republican candidates, battling for supremacy in the Republican war of the stars, have markedly different views about our need to export our technological excellence to set up a little earth on the moon.
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Apple reigns as world's top smartphone vendor in Q4 Apple grew by 128 percent and shipped 37 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, overtaking Samsung.
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North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals North Korea is one of the most closed-off countries in the world, and now its government is trying to limit information flow even more by threatening to punish cell phone users.
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