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The Apple Macintosh And 30 Years Of Changing

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Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the Apple Macintosh personal computer, a tool that I have used almost every day of my professional life for almost that entire span. I feel particularly...

BlackBerry Stock Surges Surprisingly

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Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry continued its surprising stock rally on Wednesday, bringing it up over 26% over the last three days of trading even as other phone makers and the rest of the...

BART police officer accidentally shot and killed by fellow officer

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A police officer accidentally shot a fellow officer on Tuesday in San Francisco. 42-year old Det. Sgt. Tommy Smith died from the gunshot wound at the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.The reason...

Government Panel urges To End Phone Data Spying

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Government oversight panel urges end to phone data spying, records purge WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided government task force that reviewed the National Security Agency's surveillance program...

Homeland Security Hauls Man From Movie Theater For Wearing Google Glass

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It was bound to happen sooner or later: a man has had his Google Glass headset ripped from his face and been questioned by the Department of Homeland Security over suspicions of piracy in a movie...

3D-Printed Gun Creator Lands Book Deal

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When Cody Wilson published the blueprint for the first fully 3D-printable gun on the web last spring, the controversy around that digital weapon led to its being downloaded 100,000 times in two days...

Time has Come for Bigger iPhone 6

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Another week brings more rumors of an iPhone 6 with a bigger screen; this time around the skinny from a Chinese analyst is that the next Apple superphone will arrive in two larger sizes — 4.7 and 5.7...

Fireweb, LG’s first ever Firefox OS based handset shows up at the CES

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Some tech experts have played around with the new OS based handset a bit and they were not particularly taken with what the device was offering up the hardware-wise, which is no giant surprise – the...

Tax Forms Face a Dearth During E-Filing

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The taxman cometh! The income tax returns are ready for processing. And with the due date approaching faster than a speeding bullet, everyone is filling out their tax forms in an attempt to get it...

Utah police officer kills wife, mother-in-law, and children

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It's a sad week in Utah.Just three days after the disturbing murder-suicide in Syracuse that involved a mother and her two daughters, a police officer also killed his family of four. 34-year old...