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Marc Andreessen launches new venture fund
July 5, 2009 9:00 PM PDT
$300 million Andreessen Horowitz fund to back companies large and small, but only Internet-focused.
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Fun with numbers a boon for StatCounter
July 5, 2009 7:30 PM PDT
The Web-tracking service claims IE market share has dropped off since March, but should we believe the numbers?
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4chan may be behind attack on Twitter
July 5, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
The micro-blogging site's trending topics is siege attack by Internet message boards.
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After Wikipedia, Jockipedia
July 5, 2009 12:05 PM PDT
A new site collates the social-networking activity of sports people, tabulated by name, league, and country.
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Apple MacBook Air: Cooler graphics
July 5, 2009 10:45 AM PDT
Is there a downside to squeezing a real graphics processor into in a 3-pound, ultra-thin laptop?
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Ramen robots invade Japanese restaurant
July 5, 2009 9:34 AM PDT
A noodle shop in Japan has employed robots to make your soup. Next, they'll assume your identity and steal your car.
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Wife exposes chief spy's personal life on Facebook
July 5, 2009 7:43 AM PDT
The wife of the new head of MI6 reveals details of their vacations, their children, their celebrity friends, and even how he looks in swimming attire.
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Report: Problems stymie U.S. cyberspy protection
July 5, 2009 6:13 AM PDT
Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Spiral Jetty, earthwork extraordinaire
July 5, 2009 6:00 AM PDT
On the north edge of the Great Salt Lake, Robert Smithson's masterpiece sits peacefully, awaiting visitors willing to make the long trek to see one of the world's great land art pieces.
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Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined
July 4, 2009 10:00 AM PDT
At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years.
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Road Trip 2009 hits 2,000 miles near largest bombing range in U.S.
July 4, 2009 6:00 AM PDT
In the days since 1,000 miles, Road Trip 2009 has visited some of the most incredible scenery America has to offer--and learned about some of the most sobering military realities.
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Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
July 3, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.
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Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store
July 3, 2009 2:25 PM PDT
The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.
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Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
July 3, 2009 12:14 PM PDT
At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following Thursday night electrical fire at Fisher Plaza data center. Verizon's Seattle-area DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.
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What soccer team would your company be?
July 3, 2009 12:11 PM PDT
Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.
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iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
July 3, 2009 10:54 AM PDT
Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.
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Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
July 3, 2009 9:43 AM PDT
Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.
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Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
July 3, 2009 8:00 AM PDT
q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
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Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
July 3, 2009 6:00 AM PDT
Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.
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Defending against chemical, biological weapons
July 3, 2009 6:00 AM PDT
At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.
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