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As New York kicks off its Internet Week NY event, a growing number of tech startups are finding success in the city.   FULL STORY

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PCMag.com has the top 5 free travel apps to make travel smoother. HLN's Kathleen Conway has a look.   FULL STORY

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If your smartphone seems more like a slowphone, hang in there. The next generation of wireless technologies, known as 4G, promises blazing-fast data transmission speeds. FULL STORY

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Dealing with other people is hard enough IRL ("in real life," for those among you who are not abject tech geeks). Add social media into the equation, and you have myriad opportunities to make enemies and alienate people. FULL STORY

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Before the explosion of social media, Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer in Maine, dug up dirt on his client's spouses the old-fashioned way: with private investigators and subpoenas. Now the first place his team checks for evidence is Facebook. FULL STORY

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The New York Times launched an iPhone app Thursday to help users navigate New York City based on recommendations from its staffers. FULL STORY

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The rise of Twitter and instant messaging has been good to bit.ly -- the URL-shortening service that has become a go-to tool for users across the web. FULL STORY

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week rebuffed the suggestion that Apple will revolutionize TV in the same way it has reshaped the music industry, mobile phones and tablet computers. FULL STORY

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An astronaut's pictures of Earth are attracting a huge following on Twitter. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports.   FULL STORY

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AT&T's new pricing plans may save consumers money now, but new iPad and iPhone customers will likely wind up paying more down the road. FULL STORY

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Remember the days when purses didn't have easy-to-reach pockets for your cell phone, and you had to violently dig through your bag while everyone around you was forced to listen to your polyphonic, John Mayer ringtone? FULL STORY

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Michael Jordan won six NBA championships, five MVP awards and was a 14-time All Star, but there was one honor that had avoided his grasp -- until now. FULL STORY

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Han Han is China's rebel writer who has become the unofficial voice for his generation. FULL STORY

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Decades of booming personal computer sales helped Intel become a chipmaking behemoth, but consumers' rapid shift away from PCs may leave the tech giant out in the cold. FULL STORY

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In an attempt to re-create the experience of a manned mission to Mars, an international team of researchers will lock themselves up in a windowless capsule for about a year and a half -- time required for a round trip to the Red Planet. FULL STORY

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Microsoft has pumped out voice recognition software for years, but the company has a curious aversion to publicizing the fact. With Windows 7, Microsoft's speech recognition has become a decent productivity tool and one that the company should be proud to proclaim as an OS feature. For the casual speech recognition use... FULL STORY

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For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. FULL STORY

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Hewlett-Packard says it's developing a next-generation wristwatch for the U.S. military. FULL STORY

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Google has seen enough of Microsoft's Windows operating system, suspending internal use of the OS amid security concerns related to the attack on its network late last year, according to a report. FULL STORY

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South Korea's defense ministry will show wreckage of a sunken ship to a group of Twitter users in an effort to dispel doubts among young skeptics about its investigation blaming North Korea for attacking the vessel, state media said Monday. FULL STORY

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App developer MEDL Mobile has just released an iPhone app to help men and women evaluate prospective sexual partners. FULL STORY

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The iPad from Apple is the latest member of a new, multi-use generation of technology. It's a book, it's e-mail, it's your social network or your office, it's your music and your photos plus the apps for all of that. FULL STORY

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On Sunday, Skype 2.0 was launched for the iPhone 3G, bringing a long-sought feature to the table: making calls over 3G. FULL STORY

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Facebook has launched a page devoted to U.S. politics, located at Facebook.com/USpolitics. FULL STORY

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Twitter engineer Nick Kallen posted a tweet late Wednesday night to highlight a new test feature that the microblogging service is working on. FULL STORY

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On June 6, Target will become the first brick-and-mortar retailer to sell Amazon's Kindle electronic reader at its stores across the United States, the company said on Wednesday. FULL STORY

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On June 6, Target will become the first brick-and-mortar retailer to sell Amazon's Kindle electronic reader at its stores across the United States, the company said on Wednesday. FULL STORY

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Ever think that Google's homepage was just a little too sparse? If all of that white space bothers you, your prayers have been answered: Now you can customize your background on Google.com. FULL STORY

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Musician Pat Metheny has one guitar controlling an entire stage full of instruments.   FULL STORY

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Earlier this week, we reported on a new Facebook clickjacking scheme that takes advantage of the service's "Like" buttons; today a variation of that attack is starting to appear, this time using Justin Bieber as bait. FULL STORY

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The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from"Web site" to "website" (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow. FULL STORY

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Sure David Copperfield can make the Statue of Liberty vanish in front of a live audience, but what can he do with an iPad? FULL STORY

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It seems that yet another member of the animal kingdom has taken a liking to the iPad -- dolphins. FULL STORY

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Wikipedia's "crowdsourced knowledge" model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: If the data's important, don't trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it first. FULL STORY

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Creative agency Jess3 has developed a Firefox plugin that aims to black out all mentions of BP (British Petroleum) across the web. As one popular tweet espouses, "Want BP to [blank] up your browser like they've [blank] up the Gulf? Install the Oil Spill Firefox plugin from @jess3." FULL STORY

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The first "Crackdown" was a nice surprise. It came seemingly out of nowhere and offered up fun, over-the-top, open-world gameplay that was a refreshing change of pace. You could throw cars and climb to the top of skyscrapers. It was a game that truly made you feel like an overpowered superhero. So how do you top that f... FULL STORY

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Microsoft has been more than coy about its upcoming motion control hardware, known at the moment as Project Natal. Some members of the press, more fortunate than we are, have seen it, although their coverage could only include images of the writers, not the hardware or the game itself. In some demos last year Peter Mol... FULL STORY

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It didn't start out this way, but I'm in a long-distance relationship. FULL STORY

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In need of a spring fling? Two new but very different video game releases this week should help. FULL STORY

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has partnered with hardware component maker Marvell to create a new tablet device, and a prototype based on a Marvell reference design is expected to arrive next year. OLPC says that the new tablet will consume significantly less power than its current XO laptop. FULL STORY

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David Kirkpatrick's new book, "The Facebook Effect," is the most extensive work yet written about the ubiquitous social-networking site and the people who lifted it from late-night college project to web powerhouse. FULL STORY

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off the D8 Conference with a wide-ranging chat about Apple vs. Adobe, the lost iPhone prototype and whether the tablet will replace the PC. FULL STORY

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As a kid, my mom made my brother and I put 10 cents in a swear jar each time a "bad word" escaped our lips. New service SwearJarr applies the same curse-word fiduciary punishment logic to potty-mouthed Twitter users. FULL STORY

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CNN's Zain Verjee talks to hardcore Apple fans waiting to buy an iPad in London.   FULL STORY

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The popularity of social media is playing a key role in Colombia's election. CNN's Hala Gorani explains.   FULL STORY

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