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Google relieved over 12,000 requests to be forgotten in a single day

Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be "forgotten" by the world's leading search engine on the first day it offered the service. The requests, submitted on Friday, came...

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San Francisco’s Police Department is using Twitter to reduce bike thefts

The San Francisco bike community has hailed the San Francisco Police Department’s “bait bike” program. The Board of Supervisors allocated $75,000 to support efforts against bike theft, including money for bait...

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NASA and Khan Academy have teamed up to increase interest in STEM

NASA and Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website, have debuted a series of online tutorials designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM.  The announcement of...

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Microsoft is rolling out a beta version of its speech-translation on Skype

Aiming to connect more people speaking different languages, Microsoft plans to roll out a beta version of its speech-translation technology on Skype later this year. The new Skype Translator will...

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Restaurant attacked with bad reviews following Google Glass ban

Last month the Google rating of Feast suddenly plummeted to three stars, thanks to a series of 13 one-star customer reviews. Upon investigation, it became apparent that all 13 of them were written...

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Microsoft has won the right to disclose FBI data requests

Microsoft claimed victory over an FBI bid to keep a request for customer data secret for national security reasons, but it appears the government gave up the fight after getting...

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This Kickstarter-backed camera brings panoramic videos to the Oculus Rift

Giroptic's little palm-sized camera looks like a kitchen timer, but it's really a powerful video camera that records 360 degree video. It's rugged like an action camera, loaded with connectivity...

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Google+ Stories is a new tool that creates a digital scrapbook for you

Google on Tuesday detailed a new Google+ feature that might actually attract one or two users to the platform. Ever been on vacation and snapped a bunch of pictures? Instead...

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Tobii Technology’s new smartglasses track exactly where you’re looking

The analysis division of Tobii Technology, a leader in eye-tracking research solutions, has launched Tobii Glasses 2, and claims it is the lightest and most advanced wearable eye-tracking research system in the world. Based...

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Pay your parking tickets from your phone with the TicketZen app

Getting a parking ticket sucks, but paying for it shouldn't have to be. That's what the folks at Boston's Terrible Labs think anyway -- they built an app called TicketZen to take...

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