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Taiwan Wants Apple To Blur Map Image Of Top-Secret Military Radar Base
TAIPEI, Taiwan (CBS Seattle/AP) — Taiwan is asking Apple Inc. to blur a map image of its new $1.4 billion early warning radar station that can detect aircraft and missiles coming from as far as western...
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Google Tweaks Image Searches Making Porn Harder To Find
Mountain View, Calif. (CBS SEATTLE) – Google tweaked their image searching function in order to make it more difficult to find pornography and other sexually-explicit photos. CNET reports the world’s...
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Microsoft Patent Allows Long-Distance Hugs, Handshakes
SEATTLE (CBS SEATTLE) – A new Microsoft patent can allow people to hug, grab documents or even shake hands through long-distance technology. The technology in the awarded patent uses battery-powered...
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Security Company Issues Patent For Robotic Door To Stop Gun Attacks
SEATTLE, Wash. (CBS Seattle) — A Seattle-based security company has issued a patent for its robotic Linear Revolving Door in hopes to stop shooting massacres like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary...
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9 Things Apple Could Do With $137 Billion
Cupertino Calif. (AP) - Apple Inc. has recently come under attack for its practice of stockpiling cash. At the end of last year, the company was sitting on $137 billion —and the heap keeps growing....
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Study: Men Talk On Their Phones Faster And Longer Than Women
SEATTLE (CBS SEATTLE) – Men spend more time talking on their telephones and also speak at a faster rate than their female counterparts, a new study finds. After analysis of 200,000 phone calls placed...
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Boeing, Oracle CEOs: Jobs Coming Back To US From Overseas
HELENA, Mont. (CBS Seattle/AP) — Oracle Corp. president Safra Catz says it makes sense to bring jobs back to the United States. Catz spoke Tuesday to a gathering of several thousand business leaders...
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Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – A Seattle restaurant asked a customer to leave because he was wearing Google Glass. Nick Starr, a video teleconference network engineer, posted on his Facebook page that he and...
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Chief Microsoft Lawyer: Government Spying On Par With ‘Cyber Attacks,...
Seattle (CBS SEATTLE) – Microsoft’s top legal counsel is calling recently uncovered government surveillance an “advanced persistent threat alongside sophisticated malware and cyber attacks.” The Dec. 4...
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Microsoft: No New CEO This Year
REDMOND, Wash. (CBS Seattle) – Don’t expect any news about the next Microsoft CEO until next year, reports CNet. It cites a blog post released by John Thompson, who serves on the board of the software...
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Snapchat Promises To Make App More Secure
NEW YORK (AP) — Snapchat says it plans to put out a more secure version of its application following a breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million of its...
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Selling Social Media Clicks Becomes Big Business
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore “click farms,” where workers tap,...
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Woman To Testify Against Google Glass Citation
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman believed to be the first cited for wearing Google’s computer-in-an-eyeglass while driving says she was within her rights and violated no law. The case to be tried...
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Google Develops Contact Lens Glucose Monitor
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google unveiled Thursday a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears, a potential reprieve for millions of diabetics who have to jab their fingers to draw their...
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Bill Gates: Not All Government Surveillance Is Bad
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – Bill Gates doesn’t seem troubled by the revelations of massive data sweeps by the U.S. government. Speaking to Jorge Ramos on Fusion TV, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist...
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Google Glass Is Getting Glasses
NEW YORK (CBS Seattle/AP) — Google Glass wearers will be able to add prescription frames and detachable sunglasses to the Internet-connected goggles. Glass hasn’t actually had glasses in its frame...
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Trick Or Treaters Were The Subject Of A Psychology Experiment Back In 1976
SEATTLE, (CBS Seattle) – Over 300 Seattle children were the subject of a bizarre experiment on Halloween night in Seattle. It was a 1976 Halloween trick that would leave today’s parents horrified. When...
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Report: Microsoft To Make Inside Man Its New CEO
REDMOND, Wa. (CBS Seattle) - Microsoft is likely to name one of its own as its new chief executive officer, reports Bloomberg. Satya Nadella is the head of the company’s cloud and data group, he’s now...
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Fans Of Chinese Lunar Rover Await News
BEIJING (AP) — The Jade Rabbit did not go quietly into that long lunar night. Instead, China’s troubled robotic moon rover — given voice by a government news agency — melodramatically pondered the...
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Co-Founder Says Apple Should Make An Android Phone
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has suggested the unthinkable…the company should get into the Android business. Not Star Trek’s Data, he means the Android phone, the biggest...
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