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Top Tech News: Teen Shows Battery-Charge Breakthrough at Intel Fair
How many times have you headed out the door in the morning and realized you forgot to plug your phone in to charge overnight? Or spent the day exchanging important texts or e-mails, only to have your phone die in the middle of a conversation?
Imagine b...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 4:46pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets
Hackers commissioned by a cyber unit of the People's Liberation Army in China have been quiet in recent months after evidence surfaced that the crooks had stolen data from U.S government agencies and companies. But The New York Times is reporting that the...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Microsoft Unveiling First Xbox Update in 8 Years
Monday, the drum roll. Tuesday, Microsoft is expected to reveal the next generation of the Xbox.
The event, beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, will show the first new version of the popular home entertainment console after eight years and the sale of a...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Samsung Launches $800,000 App Development Challenge
Although it's unlikely that any mobile device maker will catch up with Apple's App Store in the short term, Samsung is taking another swing at it. The leading smartphone maker has launched a global contest that aims to woo mobile app developers to its cau...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Yahoo Vows 'Not To Screw Up' Tumblr with $1.1B Purchase
Yahoo is making a mega-acquisition in social media. The search engine prince has agreed to buy the hip Tumblr blogging service for $1.1 billion, and is promising "not to screw it up."
In fact, Yahoo is so determined "not to screw it up" that it has agr...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 11:46am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Study: Teens Who Text and Drive Take Even More Risks
If your teen texts while driving, chances are he or she has other dangerous habits in motor vehicles -- including failing to buckle up and driving after drinking, a new federal analysis finds.
In 2011, 45% of all students 16 and older said they had tex...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: After Promoting a Wired World, Genachowski Pulls the Plug
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is going unplugged. The attorney's stewardship of the agency [is over], and after more than four years dealing with issues such as broadband, wireless and media consolidation Genachowski, 50, i...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: MeeGo-Based Sailfish Mobile OS Launches
Sailfish is sailing. Finland-based start-up Jolla is accepting pre-orders for its first smartphone product, which is also the first to use the Sailfish mobile operating system.
The Sailfish OS is derived from the Mer Project, which itself is an offshoo...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Better Batteries Could Revolutionize Solar, Wind Power
On an arid mountain in Eureka County, Nev., a mining company believes it's struck the 21st-century equivalent of gold. The precious commodity is vanadium, a metal that can be extracted from shale rock and used to make powerful, long-lasting batteries for ...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Facebook Finds Footing a Year After IPO Flop
A year ago, Facebook was being blamed for eviscerating the tech IPO market. This year, it could help resuscitate it. Some stock watchers suggest Facebook's recent reversal of fortune reflects a rejuvenated tech market, and the company would have fared muc...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: What's in Store for Apple's iOS 7?
There's been talk recently that Apple's products are beginning to coast on their glorious past. So, with Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) arriving in San Francisco in three weeks, the speculation mill has been heating up about what the c...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Windows 8 Update Hopes To Stem Confusion
A planned Windows 8 update to address complaints and confusion with Microsoft's new operating system will be made available for free this year, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft also announced a name for the update: Windows 8.1.
Not charging extra f...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:31am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Sonic the Hedgehog Games Coming to Nintendo
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 Nint...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Soundbars Up the Ante on TV Sound
The days of home theaters with multiple stereo speakers spread around a room may be numbered, thanks to the soundbar.
The soundbar is a slender collection of speakers in a single housing that connects directly to the TV -- so there's no worrying about ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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Top Tech News: Reality TV's New Stars: Small Businesses
There's no business like small business. Mix the high stakes of running a small business with a dash of family drama and throw in a camera crew and you get hit reality television shows such as "Pawn Stars," "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" and "Duck Dynasty."
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Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16am -07:00T (300 words)
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