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How Twitter Is Easing You Into Seeing Advertising

How Twitter Is Easing You Into Seeing Advertising

Annoying advertisements interrupting the pure Twitter stream free of paid promotion (even if heavy on self-promotion)? Cue the outrage. More »

Ron Howard's New Age of Austerity

Ron Howard's New Age of Austerity

A legendary director gets passed over by film studios More »

Just a Month After Launch, Visits to Google+ Have Slowed

Just a Month After Launch, Visits to Google+ Have Slowed

After an impressive month of explosive growth, reaching 20 million users in three weeks, Google+'s traffic numbers are falling More »

Moby: What I Read

Moby: What I Read

What does the dance-music crossover king read, listen to, and watch every day? More »

Anonymous and WikiLeaks Renew Their War Against PayPal

Anonymous and WikiLeaks Renew Their War Against PayPal

In an attention-catching change, the latest attack from the hacker group Anonymous doesn't actually involve hacking at all More »

Time to Start Worrying About Your Worrying, Studies Say

Time to Start Worrying About Your Worrying, Studies Say

Recent research shows how worrying can affect everything from your social life to your likelihood of heart disease More »

New Twitter Algorithm Could Out Guys Pretending to Be Lesbians

New Twitter Algorithm Could Out Guys Pretending to Be Lesbians

Researchers have built an algorithm that can predict the gender of a tweeter based solely on the 140 characters they choose to tweet More »

Facebook's Privacy Approach Satisfies at Least One Person

Facebook's Privacy Approach Satisfies at Least One Person

Over the past couple of months, Facebook has drawn global criticism for a facial recognition feature in its photo application More »

McDonald's Adds Fruit to Happy Meals, Cuts Calories

McDonald's Adds Fruit to Happy Meals, Cuts Calories

Michelle Obama is lovin' the company's pledge to reformulate its products and tackle childhood obesity More »

Share Prices Drop, Growth in Subscriptions Slows for Netflix

Share Prices Drop, Growth in Subscriptions Slows for Netflix

Netflix said it's getting more expensive to win new customers, plus the number of people cancelling their subscriptions inched upward More »

All Hacks Are Not Created Equal: Did Murdoch Really Hack Phones?

All Hacks Are Not Created Equal: Did Murdoch Really Hack Phones?

Journalists are throwing the term hacking around for any crime involving technology, but there's some debate on the definition of the term More »

Critics Agree: Latest 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' an 'Instant Classic'

Critics Agree: Latest 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' an 'Instant Classic'

Viewers laud Larry David, international relations genius More »

The Cases For and Against Google+'s Real-Name Policy

The Cases For and Against Google+'s Real-Name Policy

The social network has gone a deletion rampage, disabling pseudonymous users because they had violated Google's Terms of Service More »

The Last Days of Amy Winehouse

The Last Days of Amy Winehouse

British tabloids have been piecing together an account of what transpired before the singer's death More »

The Bionic Learning Network: Technology That Mimics Nature

The Bionic Learning Network: Technology That Mimics Nature

The arduous process of copying nature helps German tech company Festo to dream up and create lighter weight, more elegant machines More »

NASA Is Heading to Mars's Gale Crater to Look for Signs of Life

NASA Is Heading to Mars's Gale Crater to Look for Signs of Life

Only one day after the final Space Shuttle Atlantis landing, the space agency revealed the exact details of their next major mission More »

How Google+ is Showing Users That It's Serious About Privacy

How Google+ is Showing Users That It's Serious About Privacy

The search giant's new social effort announced its first acquisition: Frid.ge, a photo sharing network that prides itself on security More »

The Winklevoss Twins Strike Back (With a Firmly Worded Letter)

The Winklevoss Twins Strike Back (With a Firmly Worded Letter)

The famously litigious brothers were responding to former Harvard president Larry Summers, who shared harsh words about the duo More »

Who's Hacking Who Today: NATO and News Corp. Targeted

Who's Hacking Who Today: NATO and News Corp. Targeted

It's getting difficult to parse out the real news from the from the publicity stunts groups like LulzSec and Anonymous are famous for More »

The Ink and Paper That Took Humans to the Moon Back in 1969

The Ink and Paper That Took Humans to the Moon Back in 1969

Over at the National Archives' Tumblr, they've unearthed the original flight plan for the mission that first took humans to the moon More »

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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