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Goggles bring virtual reality closer to your living room

Goggles bring virtual reality closer to your living room

Going back to ancient times, the aim of storytellers has been to immerse us in an experience -- of another place, time or point of view. This past week at the South by Southwest film, music and technology conferences in Austin, storytellers and great technologists showed off new ways to take us beyond cinema, or TV or even traditional video games. One of the most compelling experiences came via the Oculus Rift, a set of virtual reality goggles.
by Laura Sydell

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US lags as commercial drones take off around globe

US lags as commercial drones take off around globe

Tempting technology and an eager marketplace are outrunning the aviation agency's best intentions to regulate drones. Photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers and others are hurrying to embrace the technology.
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U.S. to relinquish remaining control of the Internet

U.S. to relinquish remaining control of the Internet

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration said it wants to relinquish its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

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Facebook boss chides White House on privacy

Facebook boss chides White House on privacy

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg published an open letter on Thursday in which he takes the White House to task over "the behavior of the U.S. government." While he does not say so explicitly, Zuckerberg is clearly referring to the reports of widespread surveillance undertaken by the National Security Agency.

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How Target missed data breach

How Target missed data breach

We look into the story behind the massive theft of credit-card data from Target, and how Target failed to stop it.

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The World Wide Web, 25 years later

Twenty-five years ago Tuesday, Tim Berners-Lee put his thoughts on information management to paper.

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Turning food waste into fuel takes gumption and trillions of bacteria

Turning food waste into fuel takes gumption and trillions of bacteria

Every year, Americans send millions of tons of food to the landfill. What if you could use all of those pizza crusts and rotten vegetables to heat your home? That's already happening in one unlikely laboratory: the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn.
by Joel Rose

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Black Twitter growing into online force

Black Twitter growing into online force

Black Twitter is a small corner of the social media giant where an unabashedly black spin on life gets served up in 140-character installments. Black Twitter holds court on pretty much everything from President Barack Obama to the latest TV reality show antics. But Black Twitter can also turn activist quickly. When it does, things happen -- like the cancellation of a book deal for a juror in the George Zimmerman trial, or the demise of Zimmerman's subsequent attempt to star at celebrity boxing.
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BBC: Saving the oceans, part four

The BBC finds out how knowledge of the seas from Australia's Aboriginal communities can feed into modern ocean science.

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N.M. residents frustrated at nuke dump silence

It's been three weeks since the radiation sensors were triggered and the exhaust dampers at the federal government's only underground nuclear waste dump slammed shut, putting the repository's massive salt caverns off-limits and the nation's cleanup efforts on hold.
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