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Netflix

Netflix makeover brings improved search and recommendations

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NASA
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No, Stuxnet did not infect the International Space Station

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Philippines

AT&T, Verizon waive fees to contact Philippines

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Through MicroMappers ImageClicker, volunteers rate the level of damage they see in each image posted to social media. Those that are tagged as “Mild” and “Severe” damage are geolocated by members of the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) who have partnered with GISCorps and ESRI to create this live Crisis Map used by the United Nations.
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Social media

Help map a crisis: Volunteers sift through typhoon tweets

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Bonaverde
Coffee

Cool beans: New coffee machine roasts, grinds, then brews

Microsoft is doing away with its controversial employee review system and replacing it with one that gives managers more control over who receives raises and bonuses.
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Jobs

Microsoft overhauls controversial employee review system

An employee poses as he holds Apple's iPhone 4s (left) and Samsung's Galaxy S III at a store in Seoul in this Aug. 24, 2012, file photo.
LEE JAE-WON / Reuters
patent-disputes

Apple, Samsung battle over millions in court again

iPad Mini with Retina screen
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iPad

iPad Mini with Retina screen suddenly available — until it sells out

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Robots

New Roomba chews up hair and is 50 percent suckier

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FBomb.co
Social media

Untapped resource? FBomb.co harvests profanity from around the globe

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iPhone

iPhone 5 owners resist the call of the upgrade

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A barge built with four levels of shipping containers is seen at Pier 1 at Treasure Island in San Francisco.Plans call for it to become an "unprecedented artistic structure" that will move around the bay by tugboat.
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Google

Google's barge to be 'artistic structure' with 'nautical whimsy'  

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Solid Concepts
Guns

Want a 3-D printed metal gun? All you need is a million bucks

Victoria Wachowiak pushes a shopping cart with a 50-inch televison at Target
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hdtv

How much will an HDTV cost on Black Friday? Much less

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Your gadgets

It's a snap! Bra size app just needs a couple of selfies

Microsoft and Sony have both revealed the entertainment apps that will be available for their next-generation consoles.
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Video games

Sony and Microsoft unveil the PS4 and Xbox One's starting lineup of entertainment apps

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Instagram
Social media

Violent crime witnesses targeted on Instagram

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The Xbox One will be practically inert without a day one patch, Microsoft said on Friday.
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Xbox One

What can you do with the Xbox One if you don't download the Day One update? Not much

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Google
Google doodle

Google inkblot test lets you share your neuroses

She's A Homewrecker
She's A Homewrecker
social shaming

Website exposes 'homewreckers' — but doesn't break the law

Xbox One home screen.
Microsoft
Xbox One

Xbox One wants to take over your living room

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Google
youtube

Want to comment on YouTube videos? Now you need Google+ 

A mechanical "heart" pumps human urine through a microbial fuel cell.
Peter Walters / Centre for Fine Print Research and Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Robots

Whoa! Eww! Robots with pee-pumping hearts could turn waste into electricity

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Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch models.
Wilson Rothman / NBC News
tablets

Kindle Fire HDX: Great bang for the buck — if you heart Amazon

adobe

Stolen Adobe passwords turn up on Web, security firm says

A computer security firm has uncovered data it says belongs to some 152 million Adobe Systems user accounts, suggesting that a breach...

Twitter shares made their trading debut Thursday, opening at $45.10, up 73 percent from their IPO price of $26.
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Twitter

Twitter shares surge in debut as investors stampede to IPO

Doctoral candidate Brittany Duncan, center, flies an unmanned aerial vehicle at Disaster City in College Station, Texas on Friday, Sept. 28. On either...
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drones

FAA tackles safety and privacy in updated plan to put drones in US skies

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Microsoft
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Internet Explorer 11 arrives on Windows 7 at last

Sony has added six more titles to the PlayStation 4's starting lineup of games at the last minute.
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PlayStation 4

New third-party and indie games appear in PlayStation 4's launch lineup

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Social media

Facebook axes its 'thumbs up' with new Like button

This image provided by the FBI shows the wanted poster for Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara. Among five individuals added this week to the FBI’s list of “m...
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Internet

FBI's 'most wanted' includes hacker who helped catch cheating lovers

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Matt Slocum / AP
faa

Which airlines now allow electronic devices?

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James Dyson Foundation
dyson

'Titan Arm' exoskeleton empowers heavy lifters and disabled alike

A worker pushes shopping carts in front of a Walmart store in La Habra, Calif., in May 2013.
Jae C. Hong / AP
walmart

Wal-Mart's online 'sale' is really not what it seems

The Twitter bird logo is on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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Twitter

Twitter prices shares at $26 for IPO

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silk-road

Silk Road 2.0 rises from the ashes - with improvements

A barge is seen on Treasure Island in San Francisco in this Oct. 29 photo. Google is erecting a four-story structure in the heart of the San Francisco Bay. It finally revealed its intent after much speculation about the structure's purpose.
Jeff Chiu / AP
Google

'Mystery' Google barges will be interactive learning spaces

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Google

Google ordered to purge orgy images, or pay price

"Call of Duty: Ghosts" passed $1 billion in sales to retailers, publisher Activision announced Wednesday.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts

'Call of Duty: Ghosts' ships $1 billion in copies — but how much did gamers spend?

Brain activity from a rhesus monkey was recorded with electrodes in both hemispheres. The signals were then decoded, allowing the monkey to control both arms of a virtual monkey.
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Robotics

Monkey thoughts move virtual arms — human-machine mind-meld next?

Pedestrians cross the street in front of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. As it nears its IPO, the company is building the foundation for new revenue streams.
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Twitter

How Twitter can make money beyond ads