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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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Watch these webcams as Hurricane Sandy hits the East Coast
Watching the storm in real time just got easier.
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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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DARPA to fund development of laser systems
Pentagon plans $12 million funding drive in laser technology.
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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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Curiosity's cousins: Meet the rover fleet of the Canadian Space Agency
A fleet of vehicles ready to explore lunar and Martian terrains
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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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