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Hackers' next target could be your automobile

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As it becomes harder to hack computers, criminals are looking for new targets and they just might have found it in your garage. The latest target for hackers may be your car.
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Tributes to Apple co-founder, innovator Steve Jobs

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Heads of state, business and technology leaders, and throngs of consumers, who were touched by his products, are paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56.
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Microsoft's Bill Buxton on risk and innovation

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Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, says creativity takes practice and being able to take risks is the key to any success.
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies at 56

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Apple announced in a press release Wednesday night that it's co-founder and chairman, Steve Jobs, has died at age 56. The news comes little over a month after Jobs stepped down as CEO.
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Real life Wall-E: Robots that recycle

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The Finnish research group ZenRobotics has designed a robot that can sort recycling without the help of human hands.
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NASA building the most powerful rocket on Earth

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NASA's new rocket -- the biggest and most powerful on the planet -- is designed to take people and payloads to Mars, asteroids or deep space, and is expected to launch in 2017.
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Internet turning us into 'superficial thinkers,' says researcher

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By subjecting ourselves to constant streams of information from the internet, we could eventually lose ability to be contemplative and introspective.
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Information overload existed for millennia says historian

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Smart phones and wi-fi make some people feel overwhelmed with information, but the problem has been around for thousands of years.
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Airlines respond quicker to Twitter complaints

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Airlines aren't always the best with customer service, but using Twitter and other social media can help people get better treatment from big airlines.
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Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist

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Ray Kurzweil takes 150 pills a day in an effort to live until technology allows him to move into a non-biological form.
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