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Obama hosts Google 'hangout'

While reaching out to supporters through one of the latest high-tech means, President Obama expanded his social media experience by holding a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon.

Hollywood, tech industry tangle over piracy bills

With movie studios firmly behind legislation combating copyright infringement, sites like YouTube and Wikipedia say passage would mean all but the end of their services.

USC space brainstorm factory proposes far-out ideas

A unique program at USC asks students at the Graduate Space Concepts Studio of the Department of Astronautical Engineering to dream up humanity's next big space adventure.

Letting my Black-girl-geek flag fly

Peterman: "It was a long time before I let my nerd flag fly proudly, though in retrospect, my status couldn't have been more obvious."

5 reasons people are calling iPhone 4S a dud

Usually a cause for techno-euphoria, Apple's iPhone-a-palooza event on Tuesday had an unintended and unlikely effect: It made some corners of the Internet mad.

Lack of contibutors threaten Wikipedia's livelihood

Wikipedia is typically a source that makes college professors cringe, and while it's a source of endless data, at any given time, it could hold the wrong information. But it's the passionate unpaid editors of the website that look...

How Google compares to Facebook

With Tuesday's debut of Google , a new social network, comparisons to Facebook are inevitable, and immediate.

Twins drop legal claim against Facebook founder

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the former business partners and Harvard University classmates of Mark Zuckerberg, have dropped their court appeal of a settlement with the Facebook founder.

Google adding search by voice, pictures

The plain Google search box will soon be able to handle more than taps on a keyboard. Google is bringing features pioneered on smartphones, like voice and image search, to its flagship product, the company said at a news conference...

Cell phones and radiation: The 10 highest- and lowest-emitting models

Cell phone users — a group that, these days, means practically everybody — are no doubt concerned about Tuesday's news that the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."