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Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.
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Intel taps student's robot for processor demoUniversity of Arizona engineering student creates a six-legged Atom-powered bot that can "learn" to walk on its own, and Intel brings it along on the company road show.
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Images: Stewart Butterfield's new gaming start-up
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Software, Interrupted
Big IT vendors overcomplicating the cloudCA and NetApp have joined together on cloud offerings. But are they missing the point of simplifying enterprise IT?
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Beyond Binary
Olympic snow still in short supply at CypressOlympic organizers have now shortened training, stepped up trucking of snow, and even turned to adding dry ice to the mix to make sure the venue is ready for the start of the Games.
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CNET first look at Google Buzz
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Media Maverick
YouTube's traffic data for music questionedThe number of visitors to Warner Music Group's YouTube videos doubled in January and outpaced the much larger Vevo. But those numbers are now being questioned.
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Apple iPad: Is it for you?
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The Social
Brangelina kiss lands Paul Allen on TMZThe Microsoft co-founder appears to have gotten chummy with the Hollywood power couple, even chilling with them in the same box at the Super Bowl last weekend.
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Nanotech - The Circuits Blog
Intel meets its match in IBMWith Power7, IBM has served notice on the computing world that Intel isn't the only high-performance microprocessor manufacturer in town.
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Next-generation 747 takes first air (photos)
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Panasonic updates 3-chip camcordersThough Panasonic's replacements for its 300 series' models have relatively minor updates, they seem like nice enhancements.
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Green Tech
A Toyota Prius owner waits for the recallLast summer, CNET's Martin LaMonica wanted to see if his new Prius could hit the magic 50-mpg mark. Now he's wondering when his spiffy hybrid will get a fix for faulty brakes.
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