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The Pirate Bay Is Back, And An Anonymous Defector Claims Responsibility For The DDoS Attack

The Pirate Bay Is Back, And An Anonymous Defector Claims Responsibility For The DDoS Attack

Writers Note: This piece is a followup to one I wrote yesterday but got published today. It presents new information about yesterday’s massive DDoS

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Stalker IPhone App Conceals Picture Taking Activity, Is Seriously Called Stalker

Stalker IPhone App Conceals Picture Taking Activity, Is Seriously Called Stalker

This week London-based company Zeta Agency has unveiled a new, creeptastic app for the iPhone called Stalker. The photo-taking app with the most unfortunate

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July 9 Is Not Going To Be Internet Armageddon

July 9 Is Not Going To Be Internet Armageddon

In November of last year, the FBI rounded up a ring of Estonian nationals who have now been charged with infecting millions of computers

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Internet Explorer Teams With 20th Century Fox To Promote Prometheus

Internet Explorer Teams With 20th Century Fox To Promote Prometheus

In yet another move to make the Internet Explorer brand hip and relevant, the team behind the long-running browser has partnered with Twentieth Century

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Google Minus? New Study Says Google’s Social Network Is Practically Deserted

Google Minus? New Study Says Google’s Social Network Is Practically Deserted

How is Google Plus like Pripyat, Ukraine, or Bodie, California? Well, for starters, they’re all ghost towns. Though to be fair, at least Bodie

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Torrent Site “The Pirate Bay” Taken Down By Mysterious DDoS Attack

Torrent Site “The Pirate Bay” Taken Down By Mysterious DDoS Attack

Anyone who’s ever visited The Pirate Bay (or “TPB”) knows that the site experiences occasional outages that can last for several hours at a

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Bitly Reportedly Raising Funds To Branch Into Search

Bitly Reportedly Raising Funds To Branch Into Search

Link-shortening dynamo Bitly is reportedly prepping to launch a viral search engine, and is working on a $20 million round of funding to power

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Google Debuts Knowledge Graph, An Associative Search Tool

Google Debuts Knowledge Graph, An Associative Search Tool

Google announced a major change today in the way its flagship search engine finds and delivers information. While traditional search engines have chosen relevant

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WordPress Gets Its Own App Store, Sort Of

WordPress Gets Its Own App Store, Sort Of

It seems like every company out there is building their very own app store; first Apple, Amazon, then Google, now Facebook… all of tech’s

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Monterey Bay Engineers Developing Massive, DARPA-Funded “Power Buoy”

Monterey Bay Engineers Developing Massive, DARPA-Funded “Power Buoy”

Engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are developing a “power buoy,” which will utilize ocean waves in order to generate electricity

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Nokia Moves To Sex Up The Candybar Phone

Nokia Moves To Sex Up The Candybar Phone

Remember feature phones? They were usually shaped like candy bars, and they didn’t have the new-fangled touch screens, accelerometers and processing power that now

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Google TV Isn’t Dead Yet, According To LG

Google TV Isn’t Dead Yet, According To LG

Google TV isn’t dead yet, at least according to manufacturer LG. The South Korean conglomerate is expected to demonstrate a new smart TV this

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