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A Ugandan judge rules that media companies should not publish the identities of people they say are homosexuals - a decision welcomed by gay rights activists.
 
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Engadget
Google and Motorola haven't quite announced that Honeycomb tablet we're expecting to see at CES in just a couple days, but that's not stopping eLocity , makers of the A7 tablet pictured above -- the company just announced no fewer than seven 10-inch Tegra 2 tablets running Android 3.0. Specs are pretty light, but we're told the new A10 line will ...
 
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Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it has resolved a glitch that caused some Hotmail users to temporarily lose all of their e-mails.
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Not since we ran into Benign Girl at the Dollar General have we been so taken with a toy cellphone. Yours now for a mere 99 cents, Smart Phone (creative name!), proves what we suspected all along: in Shenzhen, even children's playthings are jailbroken . But please be careful, as this thing is only recommended for users over the age of four. Get ...
BitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed – the company just announced that it’s hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent. That’s up from 80 million monthly users most recently.
Facebook’s latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation, which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket, clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion)
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Officials say hackers tried to take the Brazilian government's website off the air a day after President Dilma Rousseff was sworn in.
African leaders are meeting incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to offer him an amnesty if he quits following disputed polls, the BBC learns.
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Engadget
PrimeSense provides some of the brains behind Microsoft's Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie ; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an ...
 
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Lifehacker
Those important computer tasks—like securing, cleaning, and backing up—are like any other resolution: we all say we're going to do them but rarely keep up with them all year. Here's our simple guide to staying on track in 2011. More »
Jerry Brown prepares for his inauguration as the new governor of the US state of California, taking over from outgoing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Blarkon writes "Microsoft commentator and Windows Phone 7 Expert Paul Thurrott has reported a serious bug that indicates Windows Phone 7 is uploading up to 50 MB of unidentified data every day. The phone operating system apparently ignores Wi-Fi connections for sending this data, leading some Windows Phone 7 owners hitting their 2 GB plan data ...
Europe’s manufacturing sector shrugged off market concerns about public debt levels in December, with a marked improvement in a key indicator extending to some of the troubled "peripheral" countries for the first time
According to the website Zillow.com, the value of all American homes fell $1.7 trillion in 2010. What do you think?
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Engadget
Ah, there always has to be fine print, doesn't there? Don't get us wrong -- $40 for unlimited talk and text alone is still a pretty fantastic deal in the scheme of things -- but in tweaking its LTE service plans today, MetroPCS has made the data situation just a little confusing. Technically, the $40 plan also includes unlimited web access plus ...
Intel is officially announcing its next-generation processor tomorrow--and Hollywood is playing a big role. Sandy Bridge--or what Intel now calls the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family--is a big step for the chipmaker because, for the first time in a mainstream product, the graphics chip is grafted directly onto the main processor, ...
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Eldavojohn writes "Polish Google security white hat Michal Zalewski has announced concerns that one of a hundred vulnerabilities his fuzzer tool found in IE is well known to third party hackers in China. His simple explanation provides an interesting counter argument to Microsoft's usual request that security problems not be released until they ...
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The bar is buzzing on a busy night at Chicago Cut steakhouse as regulars Keith and Peg Bragg sit at a high table scanning the wine list.
 
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The White House says the best chance to end the Afghanistan war is to compel low-ranking insurgents to lay down their guns, one at a time. But at the rate this so-called “reintegration” project is going, it could take as long as a decade to bring the fighters in from the cold.
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