The Switch: November, 2013
Patent trolls have a surprising ally: universities
By 11:05 AM ET, 11/30/2013 |
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E-mails show cozy relationship between Obama trade negotiators and industry groups
By 03:34 PM ET, 11/29/2013 |
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Sony and Microsoft don’t just want to win your living room — they want your smartphone, too.
By 01:30 PM ET, 11/29/2013 |
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‘Cyber Monday’ sales have more than tripled in less than a decade
By 10:19 AM ET, 11/29/2013 |
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The U.S. Army got caught pirating $180 million in software. It’s settling for $50 million.
By 10:01 AM ET, 11/29/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Dutch privacy watchdog says Google violates data law
By 09:05 AM ET, 11/29/2013 |
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Nearly a quarter of IT workers will spend Thanksgiving with co-workers
By 10:00 AM ET, 11/28/2013 |
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How to succeed at reddit: A visual guide
By 12:53 PM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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Reports of the death of Windows RT have been greatly exaggerated
By 12:46 PM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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Thank an air traffic controller today
By 11:38 AM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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Bitcoin soars above $1,000 on popular exchange
By 10:02 AM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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In the console wars, the real money is made online
By 08:23 AM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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The Switchboard: NSA discussed using porn habits to discredit Muslim radicals
By 08:05 AM ET, 11/27/2013 |
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Katie Couric, David Pogue, and why Yahoo wants more video content
By 05:54 PM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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Here’s why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of Hollywood and drug companies
By 02:22 PM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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SimCity wants to be the killer app of the classroom
By 12:38 PM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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When bitcoins go bad: 4 stories of fraud, hacking, and digital currencies.
By 11:57 AM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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Man threatens to sue company he says trashed his credit rating over a negative review
By 10:28 AM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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Soon, your wireless devices could be using the military’s old spectrum
By 10:21 AM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Microsoft keeps 60 million pages for every lawsuit
By 08:07 AM ET, 11/26/2013 |
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People thought Adam Lanza posted about Newtown on 4Chan. The official report debunks that.
By 05:35 PM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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The FDA should leave 23andMe alone
By 03:11 PM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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Yes, loud cellphone users are the worst. But why is it the FCC’s job to police them?
By 02:46 PM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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FDA: This DNA testing company could kill you
By 12:28 PM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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Thanks to long copyright terms, this amazing ‘Star Wars’ short can’t be a movie
By 10:32 AM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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The Switchboard: NSA chief offered to resign after Snowden leaks
By 08:58 AM ET, 11/25/2013 |
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Why do bitcoin exchanges quote different prices?
By 12:05 PM ET, 11/24/2013 |
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Here’s who (probably) did that massive $150,000,000 Bitcoin transaction
By 11:12 AM ET, 11/23/2013 |
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How the wall came down between Microsoft and Xbox
By 09:17 AM ET, 11/23/2013 |
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University patents limit access to medicine. These students want to change that.
By 05:03 PM ET, 11/22/2013 |
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The most expensive places in the world to buy an iPhone, in one map
By 11:25 AM ET, 11/22/2013 |
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Xbox One vs. PS4: Two consoles for two kinds of gamers
By 11:05 AM ET, 11/22/2013 |
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No, Bitcoin isn’t the Segway of currencies
By 09:59 AM ET, 11/22/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Alleged Silk Road founder now accused of six attempted murders-for-hire
By 08:58 AM ET, 11/22/2013 |
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Everything you need to know about in-flight cellphone rules
By 06:22 PM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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How plain, old WiFi will revolutionize the cellular industry
By 04:20 PM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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U.S. to propose allowing cellphones during flights
By 03:42 PM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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Here’s how Bitcoin charmed Washington
By 02:52 PM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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The Google Wallet card proves the world isn’t ready for mobile payments
By 08:22 AM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Wikipedia slaps PR firm with cease-and-desist over fake entries
By 08:19 AM ET, 11/21/2013 |
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Researchers say U.S. Internet traffic was re-routed through Belarus. That’s a problem.
By 07:38 PM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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What will happen to truck drivers when self-driving vehicles take over?
By 03:09 PM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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Inside Valve’s plan to revolutionize the world of video games
By 01:23 PM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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Software patent reform just died in the House, thanks to IBM and Microsoft
By 10:17 AM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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Shut up and take my bitcoins! A map of Bitcoin-friendly businesses
By 10:09 AM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Legislators skeptical about self-driving car safety
By 08:49 AM ET, 11/20/2013 |
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Hijack customers’ computers to generate bitcoins? New Jersey has a problem with that.
By 10:17 PM ET, 11/19/2013 |
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Here’s the scariest part about the Internet of Things
By 03:56 PM ET, 11/19/2013 |
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12 questions about Bitcoin you were too embarrassed to ask
By 12:38 PM ET, 11/19/2013 |
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Why states are the big winner in the $17 million Google-Safari settlement
By 09:02 AM ET, 11/19/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Officials release court order that authorized NSA surveillance
By 07:18 AM ET, 11/19/2013 |
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This Senate hearing is a Bitcoin lovefest
By 04:18 PM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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Yahoo is extending encryption across its services — but you’ll have to turn it on yourself
By 01:42 PM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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No, the Trans-Pacific Partnership isn’t ‘extreme Internet censorship’
By 10:13 AM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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Happy 25th birthday, SEGA Genesis! These are your baby pictures.
By 09:59 AM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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This adorable baby gif perfectly explains how YouTube is reacting to Google+
By 08:37 AM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Facebook may be fading -- but does teen SnapChat use matter?
By 08:09 AM ET, 11/18/2013 |
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Is ultra-shareable news killing journalism?
By 01:18 PM ET, 11/17/2013 |
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Everyone agrees this cellphone rule is dumb. So why haven’t we done anything about it?
By 11:37 AM ET, 11/16/2013 |
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PlayStation 4 can’t play old games. But backward compatibility was just a fad.
By 04:02 PM ET, 11/15/2013 |
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Obama administration: No time to waste on patent reform
By 03:18 PM ET, 11/15/2013 |
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Here’s why Airbnb isn’t worried about New York’s crackdown
By 02:17 PM ET, 11/15/2013 |
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Apple’s OS X Mavericks contributed to a 10-fold spike in update traffic on launch day
By 09:35 AM ET, 11/15/2013 |
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The Switchboard: FCC chairman urges wireless industry to unlock phones
By 08:57 AM ET, 11/15/2013 |
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FCC relaxes rule limiting foreign ownership of media stations
By 07:16 PM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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This bow-tied blogger got a million page views in 2 days. Here’s how he did it.
By 04:45 PM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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Blogger threatened with 10-year prison sentence for posting public official’s phone number
By 03:55 PM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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How Europe is totally owning our in-flight electronics policy, again
By 02:20 PM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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YouTube commenters bring in text art tanks to fight Google+ integration
By 12:05 PM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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Google Books ruling is a huge victory for online innovation
By 11:41 AM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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Google says U.S. data requests have more than tripled since 2009
By 08:47 AM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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The Switchboard: DRM has spread to cars
By 07:59 AM ET, 11/14/2013 |
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BlackBerry is doing incredibly well — in Africa
By 05:24 PM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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Of course Snapchat could be worth $3 billion
By 05:07 PM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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The head of Google X thinks we’re all too risk-averse
By 03:06 PM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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Wireless competition is good for consumers--even if it costs taxpayers extra
By 12:23 PM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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incentive auctions,
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Leaked treaty is a Hollywood wish list. Could it derail Obama’s trade agenda?
By 11:57 AM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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5 things that need to happen before private drones take to the skies
By 10:42 AM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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The Switchboard: U.S. government ridicules Lavabit founder over marketing
By 09:14 AM ET, 11/13/2013 |
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Bitcoin needs to scale by a factor of 1000 to compete with Visa. Here’s how to do it.
By 03:38 PM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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Mike Hearn,
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Why Twitter will keep growing: Its best ideas come from the users
By 02:56 PM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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Yahoo is ranking employees. When Microsoft did that, it was a disaster.
By 02:47 PM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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The government needs to get serious about recruiting tech talent. Here’s how.
By 12:11 PM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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Is Washington broken? Not for the city’s exploding startup scene.
By 10:26 AM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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How ridiculously powerful our computer chips have gotten, in one chart
By 10:15 AM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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The Switchboard: When Mark Zuckerberg’s profile page got hacked
By 03:08 AM ET, 11/12/2013 |
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Confused about the spectrum debate? These two commercials will help.
By 03:00 PM ET, 11/11/2013 |
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Here’s your chance to star in the next ‘Star Wars’ movie
By 11:59 AM ET, 11/11/2013 |
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What’ll happen to Veterans’ Day when many of our ‘warriors’ become drones?
By 11:14 AM ET, 11/11/2013 |
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Amazon’s brilliant plan to rescue the Postal Service and disrupt the shipping industry
By 10:21 AM ET, 11/11/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Obama considering naming a civilian to run the NSA
By 08:51 AM ET, 11/11/2013 |
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This reader isn’t going to miss Blockbuster
By 01:40 PM ET, 11/10/2013 |
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The $11 million in bitcoins the Winklevoss brothers bought is now worth $32 million
By 12:23 PM ET, 11/09/2013 |
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The New York Times endorsed a secretive trade agreement that the public can’t read
By 05:07 PM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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Will prescription lenses change how society reacts to Google Glass?
By 04:44 PM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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Everything you need to know about the Bitcoin ‘bubble’
By 04:11 PM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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The Internet has killed (satirical) print journalism
By 12:52 PM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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With launch titles, Sony caters to hard-core gamers while Xbox courts a broader audience
By 11:55 AM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Twitter stock price up over 70 percent on first day of trading
By 08:21 AM ET, 11/08/2013 |
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No, Bitcoin isn’t broken
By 05:06 PM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Amazon to bookstores: Help us make you irrelevant
By 04:23 PM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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The Army’s cyber command facility with a Star Trek-inspired showroom may be falling apart
By 02:01 PM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Where is Twitter most popular? This map will surprise you.
By 12:40 PM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Can we please stop talking about Twitter’s overhyped IPO now?
By 11:44 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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The CIA reportedly paid AT&T; $10 million a year for phone records. Is that legal?
By 11:32 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Twitter will need to be insanely profitable just to hit its valuation
By 11:31 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Randi Zuckerberg -- yes, Mark’s sister -- talks online privacy and parenting in a digital age
By 11:25 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Engage! Captain Picard helps Twitter get started on the stock exchange
By 09:59 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Here’s how people are changing their Internet habits to avoid NSA snooping
By 09:12 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Silk Road is back, complete with another Dread Pirate Roberts
By 08:12 AM ET, 11/07/2013 |
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Did we just witness our first firing over Healthcare.gov?
By 04:51 PM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Netflix has won: Blockbuster is closing its last retail stores
By 04:46 PM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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People have bought or sold $100,000 in Bitcoins from a Vancouver ATM, firm says
By 04:18 PM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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It seems like North Korea pirated Angry Birds
By 12:03 PM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Watch 33 years of video game titles flash by in two minutes
By 11:32 AM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Big Cable may have felled Seattle’s mayor, but it couldn’t stop this Colo. project
By 09:39 AM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Where people swear most on Twitter, in one interactive map
By 08:55 AM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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The Switchboard: ‘Warrant canary’ could alert Apple users to secret surveillance
By 08:04 AM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Bitcoin price reaches a record high for the first time since April
By 12:02 AM ET, 11/06/2013 |
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Nintendo is bringing a tiny version of its last-generation console to the U.S.
By 04:55 PM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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Protesters at the Million Mask March in Washington, D.C., were upset about a lot of things
By 03:41 PM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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When will the people who called Bitcoin a bubble admit they were wrong?
By 03:23 PM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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Here’s what the Morris Worm prosecutor thinks about Aaron Swartz
By 01:50 PM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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What might happen if Yelp paid reviewers? It could cost $12.8 billion.
By 01:38 PM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Brazil admits to spying on U.S.
By 08:47 AM ET, 11/05/2013 |
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How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
By 03:05 PM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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Yes, there actually is a huge difference between government and corporate surveillance
By 02:38 PM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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Valve’s Steam Machine is the anti-console. Here’s what it’s like to play.
By 02:13 PM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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Not that many Americans use Twitter, apparently
By 12:04 PM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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Here’s how The Post covered the ‘grand social experiment’ of the Internet in 1988
By 11:42 AM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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Analyst: ‘It’s very difficult to count on BlackBerry to be around’
By 11:15 AM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the Wind.’ Here’s why.
By 09:27 AM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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The Switchboard: North Korea makes a tablet -- and it reviews pretty well.
By 08:29 AM ET, 11/04/2013 |
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A reader reacts to a new spy plane by quoting Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex
By 10:56 AM ET, 11/03/2013 |
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Sooner or later, your wireless carrier will become just a glorified ISP
By 03:34 PM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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No, Apple isn’t sabotaging your decrepit iPhone. But the company is part of a bigger problem.
By 02:44 PM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service
By 01:47 PM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
By 12:45 PM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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U.S. intelligence agencies have their own Twitter. It’s called eChirp.
By 12:13 PM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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This is the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, and it is gorgeous
By 11:00 AM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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The Switchboard: Patent war goes nuclear as major competitors sue Google
By 08:04 AM ET, 11/01/2013 |
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