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Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
WASHINGTON (AP) , Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. Lawmakers called it a step toward a more expansive biometric system that would use identifiers such as fingerprints to keep track of immigrants and visitors exiting the U.S.
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Seoul: Day 3 of NKorea tests of short-range weapon
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating exactly what it was that the North was testing.
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Teen invents 20-second cell phone charger
A California teenager has invented a device that fully charges a cell phone in 20 seconds flat, and leading technology firms, including Google, are turning interested eyes her way. Esha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., showcased her invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix this past week.
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Yahoo offers to buy Tumblr for $1.1B cash
Yahoo's board of directors approved an offer to buy the ailing Tumblr company for $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr has yet to agree to the deal, various media reported. But the acquisition could be made official as early as Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Yahoo has scheduled a press conference in New York City, the location of Tumblr headquarters.
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| Sun, May 19, 2013 |
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SKorea analyzing NKorea's 4 projectile launches
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) , South Korea is analyzing whether projectiles North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend are short-range missiles or a new type of artillery the country may be developing, officials said Monday.
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| Fri, May 17, 2013 |
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Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album
NEW YORK (AP) , Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music." Mason said Thursday on his blog that he recently spent a week in Los Angeles and recorded a collection of seven songs called "Hardly Workin'."
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Yahoo CEO to announce 'something special' in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) , Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising to unveil "something special" Monday in New York as she tries to attract more traffic and advertising to the Internet company. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company gave no further details Friday other than that Mayer will be discussing a product. Reporters are being invited to attend the 5 p.m.
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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
NEW YORK (AP) , It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.
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Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
LONDON (AP) , A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels.
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Congress gets mixed advice on regulating drones
WASHINGTON (AP) , The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it. A future with domestic drones may be inevitable.
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Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) , The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration system.
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Bloomberg appoints ex-IBM CEO as privacy adviser
NEW YORK (AP) , Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards.
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Tableau Software soars in trading debut
NEW YORK (AP) , Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public offering. Seattle-based Tableau Software Inc. provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations.
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'Sonic the Hedgehog' vid games coming to Nintendo
LOS ANGELES (AP) , Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo. Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo platforms. The first title will be called "Sonic Lost World" and is set for release on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later this year.
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'Hatchet hitchhiker' arrested in NJ homicide
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) , The unlikely pair , an itinerant hitchhiker turned Internet celebrity and a lawyer three times his age , met amid the neon lights of Times Square and headed back to a squat brick home on a quiet New Jersey cul-de-sac, authorities say.
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| Thu, May 16, 2013 |
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Famed 'hatchet hitchhiker' arrested in NJ homicide
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) , A homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who became an Internet hero earlier this year was arrested Thursday for allegedly beating a New Jersey lawyer to death inside his home. ...
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Sector Snap: Makers of computer networking gear
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Investors snapped up the stocks of companies that make computer networking gear Thursday after industry leader Cisco Systems Inc.'s latest quarterly earnings raised hope that business is picking up after a long stretch of lackluster demand.
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MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014
NEW YORK (AP) , Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay. Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB executive vice president Joe Torre say they still can't commit to expanded replay for next year. Torre hopes to have proposals by the August owners' meeting.
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Lawmakers accuse Google of dishonesty over taxes
LONDON (AP) , U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax rules to avoid paying what it owed.
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Apple says App Store hit 50 billion downloads
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) , Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called "Say the Same Thing" by Space Inch.
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INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) , To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some...
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New Zealand's top court takes Kim Dotcom appeal
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) , New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States. The appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court involves a ruling on evidence and represents one strand of the complex legal case against executives from the file-sharing site.
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| Wed, May 15, 2013 |
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Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular.
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Highlights: music, maps, photo, other Google tools
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google used its annual conference for software developers to unveil several new products, services and features. They include enhancements for online games, maps, search, music and photos and are meant to help the company cement its role in people's technological lives. Here's a look at some of the announcements made at Wednesday's keynote at Google I/O. ___
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Google's music plan part of fresh wave of upgrades
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google Inc. unveiled a streaming music service called All Access that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a $10 monthly fee. The service puts the Internet goliath in competition with popular paid subscription plans like Spotify and Rhapsody and free music services like Pandora.
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Google unveils maps, photo, music features
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google's sixth annual conference for software developers opened Wednesday with a chance for the company to showcase its latest services. Announcements included new features for online games, maps and search, a new music-streaming service and enhancements to its Google Plus social network, including tools for editing and sharing photos.
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Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite
KOFORIDUA, Ghana (AP) , Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon. It went aloft to a height of 165 meters (yards) and then came back down attached to a parachute.
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Tiny camera in Illinois offers bug's eye view
URBANA, Ill. (AP) , A tiny new camera developed at an Illinois university is giving researchers a bug's eye view. The camera created by a research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is about the size of a penny and mimics insects' bulging eyes.
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Warner Bros. shuffles deck as top TV exec leaves
LOS ANGELES (AP) , Hollywood studio Warner Bros. is shuffling its executive ranks as top TV executive Bruce Rosenblum leaves. Rosenblum had been considered a contender for the CEO position, but the job went to the studio's former home entertainment chief Kevin Tsujihara in March.
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Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
NEW YORK (AP) , Scientists have recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. Experts called the work significant, but noted that a different, simpler technique now under development may prove more useful.
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