Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
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Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion in antitrust settlementAMD will drop all pending litigation, and Intel agrees to "abide by a set of business practice provisions." The chipmakers will work from a new five-year cross-license agreement.
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Technically Incorrect
Microsoft exec: Mac OS inspired Windows 7Simon Aldous, Microsoft's partner group manager, says the company looked at the Mac's graphical nature and ease of use and tried to create a "Mac look."
Beyond Binary
Bing getting a fall refreshMicrosoft's search engine is getting improved preview results as well as some new health information licensed from Wolfram's Alpha.
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Exploratorium's shocking 40th anniversary kicks off
Digital Media
Author says Google lacks 'emotional intelligence'Ken Auletta, who just wrote "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," says the search giant need to focus less on engineering and more on the fears of its growing power.
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A new workout for the Wii
The Social
Twitter issues mulligan on new 'retweet' featureTwitter developer chat logs reveal that fresh new feature was pulled temporarily to fix some bugs.
Military Tech
Remote-control gun turrets, made for ItalyItalian defense department orders Hitrole remote-controlled machine gun turrets to enable soldiers in Afghanistan to aim and fire without exposing themselves to attack.
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The 404
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Green Tech
Powering cell phone towers with windSouthern California pilot program to test Helix Wind's small wind turbines to run cell phone towers.
