Pre-caffeine tech: Google+ for teens, Facebook for seniors!

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FTC head calls out Facebook, Google on Data Privacy Day

    Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill didn't spare Facebook in her speech opening a forum on Data Privacy Day — even though the event was live-streamed by the social network, in conjunction with the National Cyber Security Counsel. "Reasonably safeguard …

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Pre-caffeine tech: Privacy, Princess Leia and Tank Girl!

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Pre-caffeine tech: Dotcom craziness, best friend memes!

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Pre-caffeine tech: Twitter bugs, Barney Frank!

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Tumblr boasts 120M users, and 15B page views monthly

Within two weeks of its 2007 launch, plucky microblogging platform Tumblr hit 750,000 users, becoming the go-to point for single service blogs (often with NSFW titles) such as "Look at this F---ing Hipster," "STFU, Parents," "Animals with Casts," countless "F--- Yeah"& …

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Pre-caffeine tech: Apple blather, hipster cats!

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Pre-caffeine tech: Bad haircuts, big hacks!

Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today. Oh, it is so on that things have now become very much like Donkey Kong.

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Pre-caffeine tech: SOPA makes Keanu Reeves sadder

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SOPA inspires Mark Zuckerberg's first tweet since 2009

While Wikipedia, Reddit and other sites much of the U.S.

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Pre-caffeine tech: The Internet is missing!

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Will Facebook Actions make Timeline mandatory?

  Hey Facebook curmudgeons! Your days of avoiding Facebook's Timeline — either out of passivity or an understandable hatred of change — are coming to an end. On Wednesday, the world's all-encompassing social network is expected to announce Facebook "Actions …

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Pre-caffeine tech: SOPA smackdown, 'Community' X-Men

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Pre-caffeine tech: Eminem and the Mona Lisa!

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Pre-caffeine tech: Smart TVs, 'Breaking Bad' Valentines!

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Kinect for Windows: What's actually happening on Feb. 1 — and what isn't

By Todd BishopGeekwire Posting from Las Vegas: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer generated lots of applause and more than a little confusion with this statement Monday night during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote address: "Tonight, I’m thrilled to announce that Kinect is c …

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Intel's gigantic interactive 'lifeform simulator'

By Todd BishopGeekwire Posting from Las Vegas: OK, so this isn’t something you’re going to see in your living room anytime soon, but the Intel booth here features a pretty dramatic demonstration of the power of everyday computer processors. Before the Consumer Electr …

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Pre-caffeine tech: More CES, Gus from 'Breaking Bad'

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Samsung Series 9 (2012) preview: Has the Air met its match?

By Michael A. ProsperoLaptop Don’t call it an Ultrabook.

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Pre-caffeine tech: CES, Tebow Twitter, taco crimes!

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Did the Vatican just plagiarize Wikipedia?

  Copying-and-pasting Wikipedia content is a not-uncommon writing and research technique used by plagiarism-blind students, lazy journalists, unrepentant French novelists, forgetful "Wired" editors and Rush Limbaugh.  Turns out, the Vatican does it too. The H …

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Amazon Kindle line sets new mark, topping 4M in December sales

By Todd Bishop, GeekWire Amazon.com this morning released new Kindle sales stats and called this the best holiday on record for the product line — no surprise, given that it was the first shopping season for the company’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet. The company says it  …

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Pre-caffeine tech: CES, Snooki, Doctor Who!

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Homeless woman finds shelter through Twitter

AnnMarie Walsh is just one of several people featured in a documentary about the relationship between people and the microblogging platform Twitter.

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