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Airbus Concept Plane: Cabin

Airbus reveals futuristic plane with panoramic views, ‘personalized zones’

In the future of Airbus planes, panoramic views and "personalized zones" will make flying an enjoyable experience again.

Comcast to offer Skype connectivity this year

Comcast customers will soon be able to use the full functionality of Skype through a rented box, HD camera and special remote that connects directly to any HDTV.
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Nokia defeats Apple in patent battle

In a big win for Nokia, Apple has agreed to pay a one-time settlement and continuous licensing fees, bringing an end to a massive two-year battle between two titans of the wireless industry.
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Behold, the $40,000 Hoverbike

The future is now: An Australian inventor has built a "Hoverbike" that could fly more than 10,000 feet off the ground.
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AOL’s Patch, AmEx take aim at Groupon with Patch Deals

AOL's Patch network has joined forces with American Express and its Serve card service to deliver daily deals to local communities.
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Facebook traffic plummets in the US

With 687 million users at the end of May, Facebook's traffic is far from hurting. But in the US, millions of users have decided to disconnect.
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Apple said to release unlocked iPhone 4 in US on Wednesday

Rumors indicate that Apple will release this week a version of its iPhone 4 that's not tied to any carrier, and can work internationally.
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Hackers breach IMF with ‘sophisticated cyberattack’ [update]

The International Monetary Fund has been hit with a cyberattack described as "very major."
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The Internet is killing local news, says FCC

Despite an overabundance of new media news outlets, the amount of quality local reporting has diminished to dangerous levels, a recently published FCC report shows.
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LulzSec hits 50+ porn sites, exposes user data

From PBS.org to Pron.com, nobody's safe from the rascal hackers of Lulz Security, who have now outed the identities of tens of thousands of porn aficionados.
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Motorola Photon 4G and Triumph: Hands-on impressions

Motorola alternately goes big and goes budget with the Photon 4G for Sprint and Triumph for Virgin Mobile. We went hands on with both devices to see how they stack up in the crowded Android playing field.
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Anonymous ‘leaders’ arrested in Spain

The long arm of the law finally has a firm grasp on three people suspected of directing operations for hacktivist group Anonymous.
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Facebook testing Twitter-like “Happening Now” News Feed feature

Facebook is testing a new real-time News Feed feature that could compete with users' Twitter feed for the latest news.
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HuffPo beats NYTimes in monthly unique visitors

AOL's freshly acquired news website, the Huffington Post, has successfully beat the NYTimes in monthly unique visitors for the first time ever.
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Text messaging is dying, report shows

If a recent decline in the number of text messages sent is any indication, the days of over-priced texting plans may soon come to an end.
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Hands on with Toshiba’s 10.1-inch Thrive tablet

Despite a beefier design than competitors like the iPad, the 10.1-inch Toshiba Thrive may shake up the tablet market with competitive pricing and features.
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Citibank hacked, more than 200,000 bank customers at risk

Citigroup admitted today that hackers broke into the bank's system and stole the personal data of more than 200,000 people.
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Apple reverses hated subscription pricing policy

For reasons yet unknown, Apple has reversed course on a rule in its pricing policy for app makers that required them to offer App Store customers the lowest possible price.
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Apple wants to build giant ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino

Steve Jobs took to more civic duties on Tuesday, pitching the Cupertino, California, city counsel in an attempt to get them to approve Apple's plans for a new campus that includes a massive building that looks "like a spaceship landed."
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Microsoft said to launch Windows 8-branded tablet

Microsoft may soon enter the tablet game with a Windows 8-branded device.
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Nintendo investors don’t like the Wii U

Hot out of the gates at E3, Nintendo's next-generation console, the Wii U, is a hit in the press. But stock market investors in the company are singing a different tune.
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iOS 5 hacked in one day, update now available

Apple won't release iOS5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch until this fall. But a Turkish "Apple lover" has found a backdoor.
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Kindle sales will be 10 percent of Amazon’s business in 2012, says Citi analyst

Sales related to the Kindle ereader will account for a whopping 10 percent of Amazon's total revenue in 2012, says a Citigroup analyst.
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A quarter of all US hackers are FBI informants, report shows

Hackers have swarmed the headlines in recent months with their attacks on Sony, international governments and even a group tied to the FBI. But it seems as though law enforcement has made some breaches of their own — on the hacker groups.
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Skype fix now available after outage affects ‘small number’ of users

A "small number" of Skype users couldn't connect to the VoIP service this morning. But the company has already issued a fix to the problem.
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Apple surprised iPhone carriers with iMessage

Apple's new iOS-to-iOS messaging service iMessage may have come as a surprise to wireless carriers of the iPhone, reports indicate.
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Sina Weibo aims to take down Twitter with US version

China's popular microblogging service Sina Weibo will reportedly launch an English-language version this Summer to compete with Twitter in the US.
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‘Leaked’ iOS 5 image shows notification bar, Twitter integration [updated]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will soon take the stage at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco to reveal the new iOS 5. But this leaked image may provide a sneak peak into the software's newest features.
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China calls Google a ‘political tool’ after hacking accusations

China's leading government-run newspaper has accused Google of playing politics when it suggested that the Communist Party rulers played a role in a recent cyber-attack on Gmail that exposed top US government officials to data theft.
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Will iCloud be the new iTunes?: A pre-WWDC assessment

The buzz surrounding Apple's WWDC announcements has reached a fevered pitch. And it is iCloud, the new music streaming/cloud storage service, that has everyone talking. So, what exactly is iCloud?
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Nintendo hacked by LulzSec, no harm done

A day after news surfaced that hacker group LulzSec had infiltrated the website of an FBI affiliate group, Nintendo has admitted that the hackers got them, too.
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Mistake leads 1,400 Facebook users to crash girl’s birthday party [video]

More than 1,000 people showed up for a German girl's 16th birthday on Friday after she inadvertently posted the party as a public event on Facebook.
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Investing in Groupon is a bad deal, say experts

Groupon is growing at an astounding rate. But a closer look at the daily deals giant's balance sheet gives some investment experts the jitters.
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Kno textbook app released for iPad

Kno may have ditched its tablet plans, but the digital textbook dealer has a new iPad app that offers huge discounts for students.