Summary Box: Facebook's new privacy controls
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HOLDING BACK: Facebook is altering its privacy settings to make it easier for its 350 million users to decide who can see the posts, photos and other information they share on the site. WHY NOW: Facebook users have...
Facebook change gives users more privacy controls
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Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Beginning Wednesday, the networking Web site is taking the rare step of requiring...
EPA head: US must make up for lost time on climate
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The top U.S. environmental official told a divided U.N. climate conference Wednesday that the Obama administration's moves to "make up for lost time" and cut greenhouse gases would complement congressional action and...
EU regulator `optimistic' about Oracle resolution
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The European Union's top antitrust official said Wednesday she was "still optimistic" that regulators could resolve a bitter dispute over an EU investigation into Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc....
AT&T: Tighter control of cell data usage ahead
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Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday. The carrier has had trouble keeping up with wireless data usage,...
Google says Utah company behind online scam
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Google Inc. says a Utah company is using its name to defraud consumers. The Internet leader filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Pacific WebWorks Inc., a Salt Lake City company that claims it pays people thousands...
AT&T boosts top broadband speed in 3 markets
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AT&T Inc. is boosting its top available broadband speeds in Austin, Texas, San Antonio and St. Louis in preparation for a wider rollout. The new U-verse High Speed Internet Max Turbo tier will provide downloads at...
Study: 2nd drug to treat cattle deadly to vultures
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A second drug used to treat cattle for pain could be deadly to endangered vultures and should be prohibited as part of a campaign to prevent their extinction, according to a study released Wednesday. Millions of...
Google bundles coverage from NY Times, Wash. Post
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Internet search leader Google Inc. is teaming up with The New York Times and The Washington Post in its latest attempt to help out the ailing newspaper industry. The new project, called "Living Stories," debuted...
Geminid meteor shower to peak this weekend
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The year's best meteor shower is coming to North America. Weather permitting, the peak time to view the Geminid (jem-uh-nid) meteor show will be around midnight Sunday Eastern time when up to 140 meteors per hour could...
Texas Instruments raises 4Q profit, sales targets
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Texas Instruments Inc. raised its fourth-quarter profit and sales outlook on Tuesday, citing an improving market for chips used in cell phones and other electronic gadgets like hard disk drives and video game consoles. ...
Hubble spies never-before-seen galaxies
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The refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the oldest galaxies yet, scientists reported Tuesday. A newly installed wide field camera on Hubble this summer captured several thousand never-before-seen galaxies,...
EMI joins Universal-backed music video site Vevo
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Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York. EMI's videos on Vevo will join...
5 top publishers plan rival to Kindle format
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Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are teaming up to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own technology that would display in color and work on a variety...
App in the hand finds birds in bushes as you roam
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When Jory Langner finds time for a field trip during an upcoming visit to Washington, he won't have to ask local birders where to find candidates to add to his life list of birds sighted. All he'll have to do to is...
EU antitrust chief slams senators on Oracle deal
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The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health...
MySpace buys imeem music site for under $1 mln
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MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million. In a blog...
Time Warner Cable to Comcast: Integration not easy
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The chief executive of Time Warner Cable Inc. offers this warning to Comcast Corp. on its purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal: Mixing content and distribution is harder to accomplish than it looks. Glenn...
How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top
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Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of...
YouTube chief says ad sales soaring
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YouTube's chief executive says ad sales are soaring, but there is still no word on whether the popular video-sharing site is making money. Chad Hurley, a YouTube co-founder, spoke in Jerusalem Tuesday at a launching...
Despite bumps, new `Zelda' game picks up steam
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It's easy to take a series like "The Legend of Zelda" for granted. The first game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and with more than a dozen releases over 23 years, even the most dedicated "Zelda"...
Google search results to include 'real-time' data
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Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's happening on the...
NBC chief says more cash going to broadcast shows
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NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said Monday the company is putting more money into its network broadcast programming, calling it a "mistake" that it hadn't invested more over the past few years. Control of the...
Amazon's Kindle to get audible menus, bigger font
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Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and vision-impaired users. Monday's announcement comes a month after Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.,...
Whitman says eBay didn't misuse Craigslist data
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman said Monday she was unaware of any attempt by the Internet marketplace to misuse confidential data from Craigslist to help eBay develop a competing online classifieds business. Whitman, a...
Student ordered to destroy downloaded music files
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A graduate student who must pay four record labels a combined $675,000 in damages for downloading and sharing songs online has been ordered to destroy his illegal music files _ but a judge declined to force him to stop...
Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip
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Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies. Nvidia's stock rose $1.83, or 12.8...
Yahoo launches online consumer privacy tool
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A new online tool from Yahoo Inc. will let users see and edit the personal profiles that the Internet company compiles about them to target Internet advertising. Yahoo's new Ad Interest Manager, released in test form...
AP asks Facebook users to vote on 2009 top stories
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The Associated Press is inviting Facebook users to vote on the 10 top news stories of the year, marking the first time the public has been invited to weigh in since the news cooperative began its annual survey in 1936. ...
Pulitzer Board elects Politico co-founder
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The Pulitzer Prize Board has elected its first member representing a primarily online news organization, keeping in step with the board's recent decision to allow entries from more online sites. The selection of Jim...
Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip
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Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies. Nvidia's stock rose $1.83, or 12.8...
Kansas to use stimulus funds to boost broadband
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Kansas will use a new federal grant to identify gaps in access to broadband services and build the infrastructure for economic recovery, the lieutenant governor said Monday. The state recently was awarded $2 million in...
Drug, math research honored in youth competition
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High schoolers who delved into the mysteries of chemotherapy and graph theory won $100,000 prizes Monday at a competition honoring the nation's top math and science students. Five other individual students and five...
Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee
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Intellectual freedom, independent research and frequent coffee breaks with colleagues helped this year's Nobel Prize winners make their groundbreaking scientific discoveries. The winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes in...
Facebook creates online safety board
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Social networking site Facebook on Monday said it is creating a global safety advisory board to protect its users against online predators such as sex offenders. The board will comprise representatives from five...
You've Got Freedom: AOL ends ties with Time Warner
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AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich selling dial-up Internet access, it starts...
Some background on the climate talks
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Around 15,000 delegates, environmentalists, scientists, journalists and others gathered in Copenhagen on Monday to begin two weeks of negotiations on what to do about climate change. Here's a look at what's happening...
Climate pledges made by countries before summit
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_U.S.: President Barack Obama has pledged cutting emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. That represents a 3-4 percent cut from 1990 levels _ the benchmark used by most countries. Aims to reach a 41 percent...
Key dates in unfolding story of warming planet
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1750 _ Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2). 1898 _ Swedish scientist Svante Ahrrenius calculates that CO2 from coal and oil burning will warm the...
You've Got Freedom: AOL ends ties with Time Warner
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AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich selling dial-up Internet access, it starts...
Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala.com
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Apple Inc. has purchased online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the purchase...
Study: Missing DNA can promote childhood obesity
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Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report. The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who'd become very fat,...
NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft
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NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping WISE, or...
You've Got Freedom: AOL ends ties with Time Warner
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AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike in the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich selling dial-up Internet access, it starts...
Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
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Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. "I remembered...
Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
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Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. "I remembered...
Prehistoric mammoth site in Waco opens to public
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A site where dozens of prehistoric mammoths died in a landslide and flooding some 68,000 years ago has opened to the public in Waco, Texas. The fossils were discovered in 1978 by two men hunting for snakes. They took...
Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost
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Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is this sushi's future? Tuna raised...
Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
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Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. "I remembered...
Climate pledges made by key countries
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_United States: President Barack Obama has pledged cutting emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. That represents a 3.5 percent cut from 1990 levels _ the benchmark used by most countries. Aims to reach a 41...