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  • Fugitive to police on Facebook Catch me if you can. They do

    Taunting the police on Facebook has limited benefits -- as one wanted man in the U.K. discovers when it takes police just 12 hours to catch up with him. They leave him a taunting message on Facebook in ...

  • How to really really make your naked Snapchat photos disappear

    App maker KS Mobile insists that its Clean Master can help all those who are concerned that their spontaneous naked Snapchat snaps might linger in some technological depths. At least it can help users on ...

  • Google Translate now serves 200 million people daily

    (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Translate provides a billion translations a day for 200 million users, the company revealed here Friday at ...

  • New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft

    Reuters © Visitors play with Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Kim ...

  • Could Tumblr turn into Yahoos MySpace

    Can Yahoo and Tumblr >>> (Credit: CNET screenshot) Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to attract a younger, hipper and cooler audience for Yahoo. Its audience of 700 million is aging, and the 18-year-old brand that defined the first era of the web doesn't have a compelling entry point to attract the coveted 18-to-34 demographic. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology conference ...

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Desperate Measures

Barbet Schroeder's "Desperate Measures" gets under your skin from the get-go, and not in a good way. In the opening sequence, two men are stealing into an FBI office to tap into the government's computer. The sequence is shot with dark shadows, moody music, and odd angles; on it's own terms, it's effective and suspenseful. Except for . . . the damn credits. It is rare that I would ever complain ab ... ...

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  • Vocal acrobatics of La Donna del Lago an Olympic challenge

    By Josie Cox LONDON | Sat May 18, 2013 10:22am EDT LONDON May 18 (Reuters) - Even with one of the world's most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino Rossini's "La Donna Del Lago" is the challenge of a lifetime. DiDonato and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez told ...

  • Pixels camera failure only one of many

    Google Keep note-taking comes to Chrome Ian Ellison-Taylor, Director of Web Platform Product Management, agreed. "We have done a lot of work on performance per tab, and on our own apps, as well," he said. The first steps toward solving the virtual memory problem has been completed, Kay said. They've been able to get a tab to recognize when it's streaming audio. The ...

  • Googles wearable Glass gadget cool or creepy

    Sat May 18, 2013 9:59am EDT * Google expects Glass etiquette to evolve * Casino has banned devices while gambling * "Those things freak me out" By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a ...

  • RPT-FEATURE-Amid frenzy over map apps new focus on 16th century world view

    Sat May 18, 2013 7:00am EDT (Repeats with no changes to text) * Renaissance cleric first wrote "America" on 1507 map * Resonance with current climate of "geo-enabled" devices * Google, Apple, Facebook looking at mapping apps By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is ...

  • DirecTV reportedly wants to buy Hulu again

    (Credit: Hulu) Satellite TV provider DirecTV is thinking about buying all or parts of streaming-video site Hulu, according to news reports Friday. An unnamed source ...

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