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		<title>Ratings soar for &#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217; finale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much-anticipated final episode of &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; drew the cult TV show&#8217;s largest ever audience &#8212; 10.3 million viewers &#8212; but there were also more than 500,000 illegal downloads, figures showed Monday. The series, centered around once humble chemistry teacher turned drug lord Walter White, ended Sunday with a thrilling climax to its fifth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake online reviews face court cases and big fines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Lever</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fake online product reviews have been around for years, fueled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to boost sales. But a recent crackdown by authorities in New York could be the shock needed for the online sector to clean up its act. The New York state attorney general&#8217;s office recently ordered 19 companies to halt these practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Hummingbird hatches new search formula</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Inc. has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by Web surfers. The overhaul came as part of an update called Hummingbird that Google has gradually rolled out over the past month, without disclosing the modifications. The changes could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First nanotube computer created</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American engineers have built the first computer made entirely of microscopic carbon nanotubes &#8212; a big step in the quest for faster, smaller electronic devices. While performing only basic functions at speeds likened to a 1950s computer, the tiny machine was hailed as a breakthrough in the search for an alternative to silicon transistors, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s gaming market a world apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyoko Hasegawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of the blockbuster video game &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; may have stoked a worldwide buying frenzy, but the ultraviolent offering is likely to be a minnow in Japan&#8217;s vast gaming market. Shoot-em-up video games from abroad often struggle to gain traction here, where fantasy-style games reign supreme and sell in the millions &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German group uses glue, printer to hack into new iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple&#8217;s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in the iPhone 5S over the weekend by creating an artificial copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesco to sell cheap tablet in Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tesco, Britain&#8217;s largest retailer by sales, is jumping into the competitive market for tablet computers. The company says its new Android-operated Hudl tablet will sell for £119 ($190). It will be priced at less than £100 for Tesco Clubcard members. Tesco Chief Executive Philip Clarke said Monday the goal is to make it easier for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tests show new iPhones less durable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Apple pitches its newest smartphones, users may find they break more easily. SquareTrade, a provider of protection plans for gadgets, tested five smartphones to see if they could withstand drops, dunks and other common hazards. It found the latest models aren&#8217;t as durable as last year&#8217;s iPhone 5. The biggest loser was Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy analysts question iPhone fingerprint scanner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of the iPhone 5S, the fingerprint scanner, is facing two concerns that may take a little shine off Apple&#8217;s cool new feature. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over how Apple plans to handle this highly sensitive data. And many consumers who ran out to pick up the new iPhone when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer pioneer getting a reboot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A founding father of the modern computer, Alan Turing devised a machine that unraveled Nazi codes and aided the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Convicted of homosexuality after World War II and sentenced to chemical castration, Turing — an avid fan of the film &#8220;Snow White&#8221; — was found dead in 1954 from cyanide poisoning, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ingenious indigenous phone network in Mexico blazes trail for world&#8217;s villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day&#8217;s wages for a crackly five-minute conversation. All that has changed thanks to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google releases iPhone wallet app</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is bringing its digital wallet to the iPhone, in its latest attempt to upstage Apple on its own popular handset. Thursday&#8217;s release of the Google Wallet app represents a challenge to the Passbook program that Apple has built into the iPhone&#8217;s latest operating system.]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s bold new iOS 7 operating system set to overshadow new iPhones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With consumers eagerly awaiting the release of two new iPhones this week, the more dramatic change may be in the software. The new iOS 7 mobile operating system became available Wednesday, providing users of iPhones and iPads a bolder look that Apple hopes will keep its fans happy and draw new customers. &#8220;It is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Grand Theft Auto V&#8217; hits streets in brash debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto V&#8221; on Tuesday got their first chance to play the latest version of the brutally violent blockbuster video game franchise after many lined up for hours to buy it. Rockstar Games spent five years crafting the title with a rumored production budget of &#36;270 million, dwarfing the outlay on some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hackers mistake NASA for NSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hackers have hit back in retaliation for U.S. cyberspying on Brazil but mistook the U.S. space agency NASA for the National Security Agency, a news website reported Tuesday. &#8220;Some activists decided to protest this U.S. practice but it seems that they picked the wrong target,&#8221; a specialized blog of the Brazilian news portal Uol said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google snaps up data-sharing app</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The startup behind popular smartphone apps for sharing contacts, pictures or other data by &#8220;bumping&#8221; smartphones together announced Monday that it has been bought by Google. Bump Technologies co-founder and chief David Lieb did not disclose terms of the deal bringing his team into the Google fold but leaving its popular Bump and Flock applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. case renews debate on &#8216;Open Internet&#8217; rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate is back on in Washington on &#8220;Net neutrality&#8221; regulations that bar Internet broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against services or content. Arguments were held earlier this month in a court case brought by Verizon, one of the largest Internet service providers, challenging the &#8220;Open Internet&#8221; rule approved by the Federal Communications Commission in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carriers start taking iPhone pre-orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kazuaki Nagata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Competition for mobile phone vendors spikes as Japan's three top players begin taking pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhone, including NTT DoCoMo.]]></description>
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		<title>NSA brazenly broke privacy rules for years</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/11/business/nsa-brazenly-broke-privacy-rules-for-years/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nsa-brazenly-broke-privacy-rules-for-years</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. National Security Agency for almost three years searched a massive database of Americans&#8217; phone call records in an attempt to identify potential terrorists, in violation of court-approved privacy rules, and the problem went unfixed because no one at the agency had a full technical understanding of how its system worked, according to new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. holidays to slow PS4 Japan debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Corp. will release the PlayStation 4 in Japan three months after it hits shelves in North America as the company seeks to avoid shortages that hurt sales of the console&#8217;s predecessor. The timing will allow Sony to focus on meeting demand in its biggest sales markets for the peak holiday shopping season, Andrew House, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google submits EU antitrust offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Internet search giant Google has submitted new proposals to remedy EU concerns that it is abusing its dominant position in the search market, the European Commission said Monday. &#8220;If the Commission considers the proposals to be satisfactory there could be an agreed solution in the coming months,&#8221; a spokesman said. The EU&#8217;s executive arm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Wan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Lifelogging&#8217; camera shrugs off privacy to seize the moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Martin Kaellstroem was a young adult, he lost both his parents to cancer. It became a spur for him to seize the day, as a person and an entrepreneur. The result: a lens that captures every moment of your life.]]></description>
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		<title>Skype celebrates 10 years of shrinking the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harmsen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If David Huang had left his native Taiwan for Sweden a generation ago, he would have taken a giant leap into the unknown. Now, with the help of Skype, the 35-year-old businessman is able to reach relatives from his Stockholm home as easily as if they lived around the corner rather than half a world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan wins &#8216;iWatch&#8217; orders: reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two leading Taiwanese electronics firms that assemble products for Apple have received orders to make the highly anticipated &#8220;iWatch,&#8221; an analyst and reports said Wednesday. &#8220;Apple is likely to introduce iWatch in 2014. From our channel checks, Inventec is the major assembly source for iWatch, with about 60 percent of order allocation,&#8221; said CIMB Securities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Net connections  at U.S. homes faster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The percentage of Americans with high-speed Internet connections at home has reached 70 percent, while just 3 percent still use dial-up to go online, a study showed Monday. The Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &#38; American Life Project said the percentage of high-speed users represented a small but statistically significant rise from the 66 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under Ballmer, Microsoft struggled to modernize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Timberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 13 years that Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft, literature has climbed out of books, songs have freed themselves from CDs and computers have leapt off their desktops into our hands. An exhilarating new world of technology has emerged with little help from a company that once dominated the industry. Wall Street greeted word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As promoters follow users, not sites, ads can pop up in distressing ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hayley Tsukayama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ads for knockoff Louis Vuitton bags pop up on the luxury retailer&#8217;s official Facebook page. A Toyota advertisement shows up on a news article about a car crash. Or an ad for Dove promoting women&#8217;s &#8220;real beauty&#8221; shows up on a Facebook page glorifying domestic violence. Over and over again, the perils of digital advertising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo gets more traffic than Google for first time since &#8217;11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is some good news for Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer: Yahoo has topped Google in Web traffic for the first time since May 2011. Research firm comScore reported Yahoo logged 196.6 million unique visitors in July, compared with its rival&#8217;s 192.3 million. The bump in traffic should be encouraging news for Mayer, a Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security contest for IT engineers kicks off in Yokohama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s largest hacking contest, aimed at fostering engineers able to counter cyberattacks, began Thursday with a regional preliminary in Yokohama. SecCon 2013, organized by a nonprofit group and sponsored by the government, for the first time brought together university students and adult contestants who had advanced through earlier contests. Qualifiers from nine regional preliminary rounds [...]]]></description>
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