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Google+ added games, including the hugely popular Angry Birds, to the fast-growing social network vying with Facebook to be the hub for people's online lives.
 
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Prosecutors on Apple's home turf have decided not to pursue criminal charges against Gizmodo technology bloggers who got hold of a lost iPhone 4 prototype.
 
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Apple Movie Camp

Every summer Apple runs a movie camp for kids aged eight to 12. This week I joined a group in Vancouver, where the kids were learning to create their ...

 

Hacking attack leads to police raid on Langley home

A Langley family has become the latest victim of swatting, a practice in which 911 callers trick police into sending out a SWAT team in response to a ...

 

Apple OS X Lion: More than 1 million downloads, first day

More than one million Apple computer users downloaded the new OS X Lion Wednesday. That's higher than any other Apple operating system release in ...

 

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Best of YouTube: Week of August 8, 2011

Sinatra crooners, iPhone using monkeys, and a dancing Beluga whale: Here's a look at the latest videos making the rounds on YouTube this week.

 
 
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Apple, Android snag larger market share

Apple and Android are taking over.

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HP cuts tablet price in bid to challenge iPad

U.S. technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Thursday cut the price of its freshly-launched TouchPad tablet computers in a bid to gain traction in a market dominated by Apple’s iPad.

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Gizmos & Gadgets

Dave Quirring scans a QR code on the grave marker of his father at Evergreen Washelli Cemetery in Seattle, Washington

Headstone applique brings memories of deceased to visitors' phones

Wave a smartphone over the bench-style headstone of Edouard Garneau at Holyrood Cemetery in Shoreline, Wash., and you’ll learn he was a collision-repair specialist and successful businessman who loved to barbecue, fly his airplane and travel.


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Amazon-Walmart sidestep Apple iTunes shop

Kindle king Amazon.com and retail colossus Walmart sidestepped Apple’s online iTunes shop Wednesday and its cut of sales made in applications.


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China Computers

Government censoring of web could end

Researchers from the University of Waterloo and University of Michigan say they have developed technology that could make it "virtually impossible" for oppressive governments to censor specific websites in their countries.

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The only known fossil of a plesiosaur mother and her unborn baby is considered the first evidence that these aquatic behemoths gave birth in the water instead of laying eggs on land.

Plesiosaurs carried young like a mammal, study finds

Plesiosaurs - giant marine reptiles that ruled the oceans 75 million years ago - gave birth to single large babies and may even have nurtured their young, according to a new study.

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Arctic Ocean to lose ice faster than predicted: MIT

New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the most recent global climate report "fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift," and in some cases "substantially underestimates these trends."


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DARPA's (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2)

U.S. military loses contact with hypersonic test plane

An unmanned experimental aircraft designed to glide down from the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound lost contact with ground control on its second test flight on Thursday, a Pentagon agency said.


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Social games, such as Zynga’s Farmville, are some of the most popular activities on Facebook. More than 200 million users play games on Facebook every month, and the company takes a 30-per-cent cut of the sale of virtual goods bought by users as part of the game experience.

Zynga draws fewer paid players than expected

Video game publisher Zynga may for the first time be less reliant on its top games to make money, but it still depends on under 5 percent of its users for all of its sales.

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Kinect bringing interactive ads to Xbox 360

Microsoft announced Tuesday it will bring interactive ads to Xbox360 consoles using the voice- and gesture-recognizing capabilities of Kinect controllers.


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Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo posts first ever quarterly loss, slashes 3DS

Japan’s Nintendo Co posted its first ever quarterly operating loss, cut the price of its 3DS handheld game player and slashed its full-year profit forecast far below market expectations, hit by sluggish sales and a strong yen.


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Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita game console will go on sale by the end of this year in Japan, followed by releases in the U.S. and European markets in early 2012 said Kazuo Hirai, executive vice president.

PlayStation Vita to miss Christmas in U.S., Europe

Sony's upcoming PlayStation Vita game console will not hit shops in North America and Europe until after the key Christmas holiday shopping season, the Japanese company said Thursday.


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