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AT&T urges the FCC not to reclassify broadband Internet access

In the ongoing Net Neutrality debate, AT&T has chimed in claiming that a proposed change simply won’t help. The company is specifically speaking about reclassification of broadband Internet as a...

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U.S. House votes unanimously to end the NSA's bulk metadata collection

Lawmakers in the US House have unanimously voted to end the National Security Agency's bulk phone metadata collection program. Members of Congress were voting on the USA Freedom Act, a bill introduced...

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High school senior arrested for hacking his school's report-card system

A Miami high school student is facing felony charges after allegedly hacking into his school website and changing students' grades, according to WFOR-TV in Miami. Jose Bautista, 18, was charged Friday with multiple...

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Cops are looking to crowdsource investigations using mobile apps

Citizen-provided evidence is clearly on the up. With the amount of cameras knocking about, this is hardly surprising. However, when something goes down at a large public event, the mass of well-meaning user-submitted...

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Zenimax accuses John Carmack of stealing tech to create Oculus Rift

The parent company behind Bethesda Softworks and Id Software, Zenimax Media, has taken legal action against Id Software founder and former employee John Carmack, Oculus VR and its parent, Facebook. Zenimax...

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Google releases two new productivity apps for iOS

Until today, you had to use the Dropbox-like Google Drive app or web interface to access Google Docs on iOS. But now Google has official apps to work on documents and spreadsheets,...

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Engineer creates working smartphone using Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi — is there anything it can’t do? The tiny computer has helped inventors and hackers create a media streamer, outer space camera, games console and cocktail-mixing robot in its short lifetime, and you...

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Study suggests that speed reading apps are bad for comprehension

Speed reading apps like Spritz are a nifty way to plow through text at a breakneck pace, but they’re not perfect. Such apps might rob you of your comprehension, according to new research. In a study by University of...

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Facebook funds a police substation in Menlo Park

Facebook has given some of its money and a bit of its open-source attitude for a new home for Menlo Park's officers in blue. A new Menlo Park Police Department substation and neighborhood service...

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Researchers use ancient DNA to track the evolution of the chicken

Durham University researchers have used ancient DNA to study how a jungle bird transformed into the domestic chicken. According to the researchers, chickens that lived 2000 to 3000 years ago looked...

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