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Massive Amount of Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Wyoming: Was it a Mistake, or a Hack?

Experts think the Chinese government made a mistake while censoring the web
The Counterforce protest letter Anthony Levandowski Google Bus

Google Bus Protests Take a Paranoid, Dystopian Turn

Anthony Levandowski is a Google employee who has helped develop Google's futuristic self-driving cars. He lives in the Bay Area, where he normally commutes by self-driving car about 43 miles to the Googleplex, Google's headquarters in Mountain View. Earlier this week though, Levandowski couldn't get to work on time, after protesters blocked his driveway for 45 minutes.
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China's Internet Fail: China Blames Hackers, But the Truth Is Much More Ironic

On Tuesday afternoon in China, the internet effectively shut down for more than two-thirds of the country's over 500 million internet users and remained inaccessible for up to eight hours.
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Calls on Obama to End NSA Program

Federal Privacy Watchdog: NSA Metadata Collection Is Illegal and Should End

An independent federal watchdog agency has released its findings on the National Security Agency's bulk metadata collection program, calling it illegal and declaring that it should be closed down.

Pope Francis Calls the Internet a "Gift from God," Points Out Problems Including the Digital Divide

Latinos are one of the fastest growing segments of internet users, which also happens to be predominantly Catholic. For Catholics, if there was any doubt that Pope Francis like the internet (he tweets from his account @Pontifex), there isn't now: Pope Francis has called the internet a "gift from God."
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Google Glass Explorer News and Rumors: Man Brings Google Glass Into Movie, is Detained by Homeland Security

Authorities were trying to stop counterfeiting
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Apple iPad Air News & Comparison: iPad Air Already Outselling iPad Mini, But Why?

The Apple iPads are the most popular tablets in the country, but the iPad Air is already outselling the iPad Mini, after just a few months out on the market. So, what's the difference between the two popular tablets? We take a look!

GTA 5 on PS3 & Xbox 360: PC Release Imminent?

Amazon did it again? The online retailer, which has been known for accidentally leaking some products before release dates are even announced, reportedly posted Grand Theft Auto 5 for PC on its European websites.
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GTA 5 Online Cheats for PS3 and Xbox: New Infinite Money Glitch Found Despite Rockstar Games Update

Despite Rockstar Games' efforts to prevent Grand Theft Auto Online gamers from using cheats and glitches to get bundles of GTA$, reports say that gamers have discovered a new infinite money glitch.
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iPad Pro Release Date, Features, Rumors: 12-Inch Device To Launch by Late 2014

The most recent iPad Pro release date rumors say that it will be out by the latter part of 2014, as shared by an analyst.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Date, Features & Specs: Device Included in the Best 2014 Smartphones Watchlist

Apart from the latest news that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will have a home screen that looks the same as Google, the upcoming flagship phone of the Korean tech company has been included in the list of the best 2014 smartphones worth watching out for.
Limited Edition Titanfall Xbox One Controller

Titanfall Xbox One Release Date & Update: New Limited Edition Controller Available by March

Xbox One’s first ever limited edition controller looks like a homage to ‘Titanfall’ gamers worldwide and it’s coming to US fans by March 11 of next year.
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T-Mobile Wants To Be Your "UnBank" Too, Reaches Out to Latino Families with Mobile Money

T-Mobile has now become notorious for upending the wireless industry with its "Uncarrier" plans (plus other shenanigans from CEO John Legere), and now the company is planning to "un" bank your finances. After surveying the market and finding that banks were charging too many fees and weren't appealing enough to customer needs - including U.S. Latinos - T-Mobile has decided to shake up the banking industry as well with a service called "Mobile Money".

30 Years After Macintosh, Does Apple Have the Same Core?

Most people wouldn't remember whether the Raiders or Redskins won Super Bowl XVIII, but they would remember one particular commercial that played that year. Thirty years ago, on Jan. 22, 1984, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic Nineteen Eighty Four-inspired commercial aired for the Apple Macintosh, ushering in a new kind of desktop computer and declaring Apple's identity as a revolutionary smasher of conformist technology.
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Google Glass User Pulled from Movie, Questioned by DHS, Is Pretty Cool About It

Google hopes its wearable computing eyeglasses, Glass, is poised to revolutionize our daily interaction with technology and the internet, but it's already proved a challenge to laws and societal norms. Just two days after Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie got out of a ticket she received for "driving with [a computer] monitor visible to driver" while wearing Glass, another Explorer has run into the long, outmoded, arm of the law.
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GoDaddy Seizes on .UNO Domain, Expanding into Latin America

GoDaddy is the first major domain sales company to take advantage of the new .UNO domain extension, the new global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses and internet users. The company, known in the U.S. for its "racy" Super Bowl commercials, is using the .UNO domain to expand its business into Latin America, hoping to grow in tandem with the expected wave of internet commerce as Latin America progressively arrives on the internet.
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Mars Rover Mystery Rock: Donut Rock With Strange Chemical Properties Appears Out Of Thin Air [BEFORE AND AFTER PICS]

The appearance of the debris has yet to be explained
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iPhone 6 Release Date, Specs, News, and Rumors: Apple to Debut Phone in June Says Analyst

According to the latest in tech rumors, Apple will debut its next iPhone (presumably called the iPhone 6) in June.
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PS4 Problems, Bugs & Fixes Update: What is CE-34878-0 Error? Corrupts Saved Data; Sony Offers Solution

A PlayStation forum post confirms that PS4 users who are getting the CE-34878-0 error are not alone and Sony has released a fix to the supposed app-related problem.
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Amazon Reportedly Planning Internet TV Service as Intel Sells Theirs

Just as word of the demise of one carrier-independent internet TV prospect, Intel TV, hit the internet, another promising prospect took its place: Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in the early stages of working on its own new online pay-TV service.
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