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Yahoo! News: Technology News
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 AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
 AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.
Yahoo! News - If all the crazy and awesome innovative designs we've seen lately come to fruition, the future is going to be a pretty interesting place. If melting buildings aren't your thing though, check out this vision of the future proposed by Corning, makers of ?
Yahoo! News - Unless you've just awoken from a coma or emerged from under a rock, you're probably aware of the rather popular sporting event that was held over the weekend. For those who don't care about the game itself, or the commercials, the halftime ?
Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?
 AP - You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.
Reuters - Combing dating websites for that perfect love match can be very frustrating, and a group of U.S. psychology professors released a report on Monday explaining why there is no substitute for meeting face-to-face.
Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
Appolicious - The world of mobile device malware is getting a little more dangerous with the announcement from tech security company Symantec that it has discovered malware programs that mutate every time they?re downloaded.
 Reuters - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Carolyn Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp.
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
Appolicious - The unlimited data user on AT&T?s network might be a dying breed. The carrier stopped offering unlimited data to its smartphone users way back in 2009, but for those who still have access to unlimited plans, things might be a lot more limited than they appear.
Reuters - Welcome to the airport terminal of the future.
Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
CNN.com - Technology
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Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
    
In the social media age, you don't need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl.
 
Earlier this month Apple released its annual supplier responsibility report which detailed alleged workplace health and safety protocol violations by its suppliers.
 
Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified government documents over cellular networks, according to people involved in the project.
 
See CNN's list of 10 well-known people whose Twitter accounts will cause you to do a double-take.
 
Whenever a hugely popular and successful company goes public, many people wonder what will happen to all the newly created millionaires. What will they do now that they are financially "set for life"? Will there be "1,000 millionaires"? Will they suffer "sudden wealth syndrome"?
 
E-mail can be a lovely way to connect, an easy and instant medium for getting back or keeping in touch, a canvas for hellos and sorrys and XOXOs.
 
Dana White loves a good fight.
 
For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself.
 
TIME.com Gadget of the Week
Reviews of the latest electronic devices
The first-class way to travel across Google's globe
No-Mistake Tech Buying for the Holidays and Beyond
Some last minute advice about the hot tech toys
The newest digital SLR camera might teach you a thing or two
Ups and downs with a music and messaging phone
Can the latest high-powered consoles offer more than videogames? You bet.
Rather than being something truly special, the anti-Apple initiative is just another non-iPod
Enough with the smartphones, here comes an easy phone for older folks
Are smart phones ready for the masses?
Place shifting in the age of high-definition television
Latest SciTech Headlines - CBS News
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Researchers: The surface of Mars may have been arid and desolate for more than 600 million years
     
University of Missouri educator using web to share cancer experience, says he's not wasting his time fighting the cancer
  
Group agreed to keep funding Planned Parenthood only after online firestorm; Latest example of social media influence
  
CyberForce, part of the hacking collective Anonymous, claims responsibility for attack on Swedish government website
  
Products to maximize your viewing pleasure - on Game Day, and any time!
  
Another spectacular view of our home planet taken by NASA's Earth-watching satellite
  
Steve Appleton was the only one in the plane when it crashed at the Boise
airport Friday morning
  
Hacking collective defaces Boston police's website "in retaliation" for Occupy eviction in latest takeover
  
Samsung ban threatened after over Israeli commercial depicting attack on nuclear plant
  
These giant crustaceans have been glimpsed only a handful of times in human history
  
Anonymous publishes recording of call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of loose-knit hacking group
  
That charming Scottish burr turns into a nightmare for Apple's latest iPhone to understand
  
SEC filing reveals how hackers stole data in successful attacks, but doesn't say what data was stolen
  
Manuscript takes aim at 2010 claim proposing arsenic as building block of life
  
Temperatures neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on newly-discovered planet
  
ABC News: Technology
Hungry wild polar bear prefers playing with a chained sled dog to eating it. It sounds like a paradox. How could play ? defined as ?apparently purposeless activity that?s fun to do and pleasurable? ? be vital for grim survival in such an often random...
 
Facebook, which filed for an IPO this week, says it has been a success largely because it requires people to use their real names online and thus be more civil to each other. No anonymous flaming allowed. Can it last?
What?s in a name? A lot, according to the more-than-4,200 people who took the time to vote in Facebook poll to determine what Dave and Lindsey Meske of Crystal Lake, Ill., should name their newborn baby daughter. The Meskes set up the poll, which drew...
Steve Appleton, the CEO of the semoconductor maker Micron Technology, Inc., was killed in a small plane crash at the airport in Boise, Idaho today. He was 51.
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
Alex Cherney, a software developer and self-described hobbyist astronomer based near Melbourne, captured a series of stunning Aurora Australis over the Mornington peninsula in Australia. ?It was my first visual aurora,? he told ABCNews.com. ?I was surprised, myself, when I saw it. I didn?t think it would be...
Ad widely criticized on YouTube as tasteless; Apple has no comment.
The unprecedented online revolt against PIPA and SOPA, congressional bills targeting online copyright and trademark infringement, has many Washington insiders scratching their collective heads.
Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep. And it?s growing. In...
Two teens helped prevent a peer from killing himself.
Facebook, in one of the world's most widely anticipated IPOs, or initial public offerings of stock, filed papers to raise at least $5 billion and begin to sell stock this spring.
Police dash-cam captured the bright light that was seen as far as Kansas.
Disc-shaped object resembles Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars.'
Free software lets users know which people ditched them on Facebook.
David Muir gives a little insight into what creates those amazing auroras.
Reuters: Technology News
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(Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Carolyn Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp.
  
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With Valentine's Day just a week away disappointed daters wondering what went wrong with the romance have a new way to discover why the relationship fizzled.
 
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications and Coinstar's Redbox unit have formed a video joint venture to provide services aimed at competing directly against video rental giant Netflix.
 
(Reuters) - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search company called "low quality traffic" from ads on Tsavo-run websites last year.
 
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris wants to get back on the acquisition trail, eyeing businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after selling a chunk of assets to Russia's Vimpelcom.
 
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
 
TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - Official investigations into a massive fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp are highly likely to lead to further revelations on the scandal soon, according to the firm's former chief executive, Michael Woodford, who blew the whistle on the affair.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.
 
(Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
 
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 You don't need to be a geek to appreciate these Valentine's Day tech gifts. Whether it's a USB-powered blanket to keep your loved one warm, headphones for sharing music as a couple, or a blingy new watch, each one says "I love you" in its own special way.
 Gaze into the Helix Nebula's golden eye and see the other cosmic highlights of January 2012.
Challenging Netflix, Verizon says it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
If cyberspace itself is now a weapon of mass destruction, how can we protect ourselves from an electronic Armageddon? That?s one of the many disconcerting questions raised by a major new report just published in Europe.
 OK Go's latest calculated viral success is so neato-mosquito, you can easily forget you're being sold something, not just the band but a car.
 If you've ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut and have four months to spare, you might have the "right stuff" to fly to Mars ? well, sort of.
 Poor Tim Tebow. The starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos set a a Twitter record in the beginning of January and it's already defeated ? by the Super Bowl. According to Twitter, Super Bowl XLVI is the most tweeted sporting event ever.
A fresh new batch of fake and dangerous apps has found its way into the official Android Market, and downloading any of them could put your smartphone, and your personal information, in jeopardy.
 Here's what's worth considering today: The "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy on Blu-ray for $40, discounted PlayStation gear, deals on monitors and more.
 Many individuals have been holding their breath and waiting for the day when Siri becomes officially available on older iPhones. But according to one analyst, that moment may never come ? thanks to a technical difference between the iPhone 4S and older generation devices.
 The next version of Microsoft?s PC operating system will be a radical change for people who pick it up for the first time, with a primary screen based on tiles similar to the Windows Phone interface ? relegating the old-fashioned-yet-familiar Windows desktop to a secondary status.
You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.
 Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.
You've no doubt seen the split keyboard that iOS 5 brought to the iPad, but it turns out it has a few hidden buttons on the edges. Here's how they work.
 Some women like pink, but many don't care for that color when it comes to their personal gadgets, says a new study.
CNET Reviews - Top Rated Computer Systems
CNET Computer Systems Reviews are the most comprehensive resource for unbiased personal technology advice.
Attractive, affordable, and very fast, D-Link's PowerLine AV 500 Adapter Starter Kit DHP-501AV is one of the best available in its class.
HP's versatile EliteBook 8560w shows that a mobile workstation can be rugged and a solid performer and still look good.
Though it's slightly more expensive than competing inkjet workhorses, we recommend the Epson WorkForce 845 for its refined design and Epson's Connect cloud-printing portfolio.
The Linksys E4200 v2 makes a great upgrade to the original version and an excellent investment for those who need a fast, feature-rich, advanced, yet easy-to-use router for the home or even a small business.
The latest version of the 13-inch MacBook Air vastly outperforms its predecessor, and can finally be called suitable for mainstream use, instead of relegated as a niche product.
Compact, good-looking, affordable, and fast, D-Link's PowerLine AV 500 4-Port Gigabit Switch DHP-540 makes a great device that extends your network both via traditional cables and electrical wiring.
The Linksys E3200 is an excellent high-performance Wireless-N router for both novice and experienced users.
This year's 11-inch MacBook Air improves on last year's model in several significant ways and is by far the fastest ultraportable you're likely to find, though some users will consider the limited flash storage space to be a hindrance.
The Asus RT-N56U is arguably one of the best true dual-band 300Mbps home routers on the market.
The Epson WorkForce 840 costs a bit more than the average all-in-one inkjet, but its strong performance and long list of features more than justify its price and CNET's Editors' Choice Award.
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