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Netflix now has the right to share your viewing habits
The Senate quietly passed a reform weakening the Video Privacy Protection Act.
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New Zealand's largest paper calls Kim Dotcom “good for this country”
Dotcom comes with drama, but he helped expose political scandal in the country.
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The 5 Best Productivity Articles We Read This Year
Successful people have 24 hours in a day, just like everyone else. Unfortunately, lost time per day comes out to at least two hours for most industries. From losing focus to useless meetings, there are a million ways to bypass productivity. These 15 time wasters are some of the worst.
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Everyone Is Talking About Facebook's Massive Flop
It's about how Facebook blatantly ripped-off a hot startup – bragged about it – and then fell on its face, to a chorus of alarmed wonderment from around the industry.
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Lack of low-end BlackBerry 10 phone could be a serious stumbling block
South Africa is one of Research In Motion’s top five markets in the world, and it is a decent proxy for the entire African market. Statistics illustrate exactly why BlackBerry 10 cannot arrive soon enough… and why RIM badly needs a cheap new BlackBerry 10 model by spring.
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Hollywood's Best Actors For The Buck
Although studios often spend hundreds of millions of dollars on blockbusters full of explosions and computer-generated destruction, a small movie like Black Swan can often be a much better bet. For every dollar Portman earns from the studios, she returns an average $42.70.
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The Year's Most Audacious Private Space Exploration Plans
2012 was a banner year for bold, and sometimes wild, announcements by private space companies. From moon landings to asteroid mining, we take a look at all the new players and tell you how plausible their schemes are.
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At peak, Amazon sold a whopping 306 items per second in 2012
The biggest piece of data revealed by the company was the number of packages it sold on the peak day of 2012. On November 26, Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.
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Smart TV owners seemingly tuning out most apps
They may be called smart TVs, but that doesn’t stop the vast majority of us from using them as basic boob tubes.
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Why You Should Pay for Apps
So you just got a smartphone or tablet for Christmas. Great! Now buy some apps. No, not free apps. You, or a special someone, just spent, what, $200-plus on your new gadget? Plunk down $10 for some apps. It's good for everyone.
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When You Should (And Shouldn't) Buy AppleCare
If you're making an investment in an Apple product, whether it's a new machine or a permanently on-sale refurb, you want to protect it. At the same time, spending a few hundred more on AppleCare hurts when you're already dropping a couple grand on a computer.
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Graphene research gets £21.5m fund
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has outlined plans to boost development of the "super-material" graphene. It is one of the lightest, strongest and most conductive materials known, with great commercialisation potential.
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Snapchat rises: Why Poke's decline shows Facebook's inability to invent
Facebook's Poke app, a copy of red-hot Snapchat rose almost to the top of the iTunes appstore on launch. A few days later it has tanked, making me wonder: can Facebook really invent any new Internet behavior or is it destined to be a copycat forever?
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No One Uses Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks
People aren’t using their internet-connected smart TVs for anything beyond, well, watching TV. It turns out, nobody wants to tweet from their TV. Or read books.
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Top 10 highest grossing movies of 2012
As the year 2012 comes to an end, we take a look at the top 10 Hollywood films which became the highest grossing films of the year.
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Ouya Android games console starts shipping
Kickstarter's flagbearer Ouya, the Android-powered games console, is starting to ship to backing developers. Those who paid $699 or more toward the project should have a delivery confirmation turning up in their email inbox anytime soon.
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NHL makes new CBA offer to Players' Association
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed on Friday the league made a new CBA proposal to the NHL Players' Association on Thursday afternoon.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Refusing to Honor Military-Style Rifle Orders Placed Before CT Shooting
The sporting goods chain says it’s suspending sales of modern rifles nationwide because of the school shooting in Connecticut.
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One small hotel's long nightmare with Expedia
After a falling out with the online travel agency, the Luna Blue Hotel can't shake the rumor that it's sold out forever
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Chick-fil-A’s latest horror
The controversial fast-food chain publishes a children's book loaded with half-truths about farms and animals
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