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February 24, 2011
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Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda Does a code of ethics still exist in Intelligence firms? Does it disappear behind closed doors, dirty deeds done in the dark and used against the American people who are supposed to be free to express themselves?D
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Apple's MacBook Pro Update: What's New Apple has revamped its MacBook Pro lineup, adding new Intel chips, updated graphics cards, and new high-speed Thunderbolt port
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iPad 2 Event March 2: What to Expect With the date for the iPad 2's grand unveiling set, let's speculate on what features, exactly, we're going to see.
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Bethesda Releases New Elder Scrolls Skyrim Trailer Bethesda's fresh, nearly three-minute Elder Scrolls Skyrim trailer offers up running, sneaking, throat-cutting, possibly even flying, and some of the prettiest panoramas going.
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Apple Store Down as New MacBook Pros Set for Release The 15-inch MacBook Pro will reportedly include a 2Ghz Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 500 GB optical drive.
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Intel's Thunderbolt Gets off the Ground Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect technology, formerly called Light Peak, has emerged from the company's lab and will soon find its way into product, including...
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Hop a PlayStation Home Yacht, View Today's Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Want to watch the Discovery liftoff from a virtual yacht on your PS3? You can, with LOOT's "Sunset" Yacht and Sony's PlayStation Home.
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Five Things You Need to Know About LTE LTE, or long-term evolution service, is poised to be the new world standard for mobile data. Here are five things that set it apart from its predecessors.
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HPs New Notebooks: Businesslike, But Likeable The laptops' feature sets and emphasis on substance over style give them plenty of appeal for a certain discerning type of consumer.
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Duke Nukem Forever Dev Goads Feminists Gearbox Software President Randy Pitchford digs into controversial Duke Nukem Forever material, encourages activists to "use Duke" for their own agendas.
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Android: Will it Be the Most Secure of All? Last month's acquisition of mobile security firm 3LM by Motorola could usher in a new era of enterprise-class security for Android devices
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NASA's Robot May Get Japanese Space Companion The space shuttle Discovery is slated to take off tomorrow carrying a humanoid robot that could be joined by 2014 by a second robot sent from Japan.
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Retro Browser War: IE6 vs. Netscape in 2011 What if you took the raw, pre-patched, 10-year-old versions of Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 6.1 and tried to surf the modern Web? What would happen?
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Google Face Search to Use Social Network Photos Google recently published a patent to use facial recognition and social networking combined to give visual search results.
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News Corp.'s The Daily Headed to Android When the app launched, Rupert Murdoch seemed to imply it would be exclusive to the iPad for the duration of this year and next.
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