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Tech support: Who to call in Congress

TechCrunch rates lawmakers on their alignment with tech industry lobbyists.

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Martian soil is a lot like Hawaiian soil

NASA's Curiosity Rover is starting to get some analysis from its soil scooping mission

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Commerce, Justice reviewing .com contract

Departments are scrutinizing Verisign's bid for a six-year renewal of its contract to continue running the Internet's most popular generic top-level domain name.

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Facts and figures from a day indoors during Sandy

Some personal stats from the storm while awaiting FEMA's social media and Web traffic figures.

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All the Internet projects that help us through Sandy

These projects make it easier to send and collect relevant data about the storm

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What if we didn't know Hurricane Sandy was coming?

The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead.

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The birth of Hurricane Sandy

NASA video: 10 days of storm development in 20 seconds

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Confessions of an Internet researcher

The Web’s effect is tough to isolate.

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Video: Watch Hurricane Sandy from space

Meteorologists said the monster storm would affect much of the East Coast.

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The consequences of machine intelligence

If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

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Tech could ease the presidential transition

Collaborative tools may store knowledge for future administrations.

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Coalition launched to lobby support for Internet radio bill

The Internet Radio Fairness Coalition will push lawmakers to pass legislation introduced last month in the House.

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Google's Street View sherpas tackle the Grand Canyon

Despite all our robots, humans really are the best at certain tasks, like hiking the Grand Canyon

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Dot-gov reform presses on, here and across the pond

U.S. agencies have shed about 400 websites since December; the U.K. is down to one.

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All of Apple's new small stuff: iPad Mini and a slimmer iMac

Products will be available beginning in November and December.

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Smartphones aren’t mini computers

Move from Web to mobile is tougher than expected.

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Russian rocket launch brings a new crew to the Space Station

The rocket lifted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday morning