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The Facebook privacy settings that you now need to change

It seems that whenever we finally get an understanding of how to position our Facebook settings for maximum privacy, they go and make changes. This is the latest batch of...

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Disney touchscreen technology lets you feel textures

The technology world just got a bit weirder (and more amazing) after Disney announced that they invented a touchscreen that allows tactile differences to be experienced. It's sort of like...

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Should the NSA report vulnerabilities to tech companies?

They want to know as much about us as possible and sometimes that requires them to find vulnerabilities. At what point do the decide that leaving the vulnerabilities up for...

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Silk Road owner solicited murder for hire

As we learn more about the FBI bust of the deep net financial arm of parts of the underworld, Silk Road, a new fact was revealed. The owner tried to...

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Bezos officially owns The Washington Post

Nobody was expecting anything to go south, but it's always good when it's official. The Washington Post has a new owner. Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally...

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France will impose sanctions on Google for missing privacy policy deadline

We always knew that Google was getting powerful enough to take on entire countries when it came to policy. Now, we'll see where they land against the French. Data protection...

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Sudan government blocks internet

The internet is down. That much is known in Sudan. What is not certain (but highly likely) is that the government is behind the outage. Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed...

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Scientists create first carbon nanotube computer to eventually make iPhones ‘huge, clunky devices’

If you compare today's computers to the ENIAC, you'll see the biggest difference is size. We may be saying the same thing about iPhones someday soon as scientists have built...

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The neutral issues of net neutrality

There are very few debates in which absolutes play a role. It's normally not a matter of black or white. There is always a ton of gray that fuels both...

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White House petitions FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices

Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday asking that all wireless carriers be required to...

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Google in a race vs the NSA to encrypt data

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence...

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Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence...

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