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500 tweets could land you in jail in China

China is in the middle of yet another crackdown on what it terms "online rumors", as the government tries to rein in social media, increasingly used by Chinese people to discuss...

Man remodels internet as one giant computer

Google runs its web empire on computers the size of warehouses. Inside the massive data centers that drive things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps, you’ll find tens of thousands...

Instagram pictures itself making money soon

Instagram has grown to more than 150 million users, and there are big changes planned for the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service in the year to come. In the last six months...

Opera debuts new iPad browser

Opera Software has long innovated in the browser space and, on Monday, brought its way of thinking to the Apple iPad. Though Opera already offered its traditional Opera Browser to...

iPhone 5C: everything we know so far

It's almost time for Apple's latest, highly anticipated media event, where the tech company is expected to reveal a new batch of iPhones, new iPads -- and hopefully a few...

NSA backdoor to domestic emails reopened secretly in 2011

Up is down and down is up if you’re watching closely enough to what has been happening at the NSA and with the Obama administration the last few years. The...

Oyster’s “Netflix for books” may be the service avid readers have wanted

Oyster has already established a compelling elevator pitch: “Netflix for books.” Pay a monthly fee, get access to an unlimited number of 100,000 titles available in Oyster’s app. The app is...

Apple’s next unveiling could make or break a business

These annual iPhone unveilings have become a sort of Creative Destruction Day in Silicon Valley. Remember all those companies that were making nifty little digital video recorders? There aren’t many...

Sony beats Samsung to the smartwatch punch but will anyone care?

It’s too bad for Samsung this time because Sony has revealed its latest version of the SmartWatch. Samsung was just a few hours late when it announced its new Samsung...

Google wants to continue scanning Gmail

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Google's attorneys say their long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and are asking a federal...

How the new iPhone actually helps Hollywood

The new iPhone 5S will make headlines this fall for its better camera, longer-lasting battery and flashy fingerprint-sensing lock. But another device Apple is expected to introduce at a Sept....

Man crosses Twitter and Google Reader to make open source love child

Michael Powers wants to do what so many others have failed to do: build an online social network that’s outside the grip of any one company — and that people...