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Solar Impulse soaks up the praise: Energy chief says solar plane will spark progress

The boat's top deck is covered in 516 square meters of solar panelling.
PlanetSolar
innovation

World's largest solar boat docks in NYC 

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver talking about his facebook page in Kent, Ohio. Oliver uses the reach of...
AP
Social media

Police chief takes criminals to task on Facebook

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Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb, AKA "Major Nelson," addressed the Reddit community last week at E3 to say that while Microsoft's Xbox One console won't be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games, it will be compatible with the Xbox 360 console.
YouTube
Video games

Xbox 360 owners will be able to plug current-gen console into the Xbox One

San Francisco, UNITED STATES: Ray Kurzweil speaks on "Singularity" during the RAS Conference 2007 in San Francisco, 07 February 2007. Kurzweil was th...
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Business

Tech bringing immortality closer, Google expert says 

Close up detail shot of a computer keyboard
Featurepics.com
Your gadgets

B for busted: Students changed grades by tampering with professors' keyboards

The Cheetah-Cub robot's legs are built like the legs of a real cat.
Biorobotics Lab, EPFL
robots

'Cheetah-Cub' looks like a robot, runs like a cat

Google is donating $5 million to child protection organizations, including the NCMEC, which has analyzed more than 80 million images and videos depicting apparent child pornography through the Child Victim Identification Program.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Google

Google's new plan to combat Internet child pornography

This film publicity image released by DreamWorks Animation shows, from left, Belt the sloth, voiced by Chris Sanders, Guy, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, an...
DreamWorks Animation
netflix

It's for the kids: Netflix strikes largest content deal ever

Hell Is Other People
Hell Is Other People
Social media

Anti-social media app helps you avoid Foursquare friends

An Apple logo is seen at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco, California June 10, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
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Apple

Apple got up to 5,000 data requests in six months

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eBay via io9.com
eBay via io9.com
Technology

Pre-caffeine tech: Data disclosures, guinea pig armor

A man holds up Samsung Electronics Co's latest Galaxy S4 phone during its launch at the Radio City Music Hall in New York March 14, 2013. REUTERS/Adre...
Adrees Latif / Reuters
Your gadgets

Samsung's new Galaxy S4 offers twice the speed of 4G

A zoomed image of a computer screen showing the Amazon logo is seen in Vienna November 26, 2012. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters
Internet

From the ashes of a start-up, Amazon builds a grocery business

WhatsApp
WhatsApp
Your gadgets

Saudi Arabia plans to block WhatsApp within weeks: report

Apple
Apple
Your gadgets

10 reasons Android beats iOS 7

Solar Plane
Phil Frank
innovation

Solar-powered plane lands in Washington after 'pit stop' in Ohio

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In this June 10, 2013 photo released by Google, solar panels and electronics are prepared for launch in Tekapo, New Zealand. Google is testing balloon...
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Internet

Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons

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Internet

Game on: The sights of E3 2013

An illustration picture shows a woman looking at the Facebook website on a computer in Munich February 2, 2012. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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Facebook

Facebook, Microsoft release info on US government data requests