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Obama announces changes to NSA surveillance
Starting out by evoking the intelligence work done by Paul Revere and it being instrumental to the formation of our nation, President Obama gave a speech this morning announcing changes to the controversial NSA surveillance programs revealed by leaker Edward Snowden...
How Making Food Safe Can Harm Wildlife And Water
We'd probably like to think that clean, safe food goes hand in hand...
Inside Dish Network’s offer to buy Sprint
A surprise bid from Dish, the second-largest satellite television provider, to purchase wireless company Sprint has emerged. The offer has thrown a wrench into a Japanese bank's plan to buy Sprint...
Google redirects traffic away from China site
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. on Monday began re-directing Internet traffic away from its Chinese-language site at google.cn to Hong Kong-based...
White supremacist goes on trial in Internet-threat case
CHICAGO — The juror remembered to the minute when the call came in — at 9:34 a.m...
Kony 2012 Group Vows to Address Critics With New Film
As of Monday morning, the half-hour Kony 2012...
DIY Spacesuits are now a thing
The latest episode of design podcast, 99 Percent Invisible, delves into a topic long written off as mad science for supervillains: the DIY Spacesuit...
Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash
Although Facebook didn’t buy AOL’s patent portfolio the other week — it was gobbled up by Microsoft for $1 billion — it’s going to get a big serving of those patents anyway: Microsoft and Facebook today announced...
Microsoft’s energy management application available to Xcel customers
Starting today, Xcel Energy customers have access to...
Judge backs city, ends camping for Occupy protesters in N.Y. park
NEW YORK — Hours after New York officials raided...
Auction house sells purported diary of infamous Nazi doctor
STAMFORD, Conn. — An auctioneer of historic documents said Tuesday that he sold a journal written by Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi Holocaust's "Angel of Death," to the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor...
Ustream Integrates With Facebook Timeline For Sharing Live Videos With Friends
Live video streaming website Ustream today is launching an integration with Facebook’s new Timeline user interface...
