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LOUISVILLE, KY—Shaken and trembling Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another, who came from behind and outside on the final turn to win the Kentucky Derby in a breathtaking display of speed and panic, is reportedly hoping that nothing like the 1-1/4-...

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has sold 30.2 million shares and director Peter Thiel has sold 16.8 million shares of the social-networking company, according to securities filings published late Tuesday. The sales confirm plans detailed in a prospectus before Friday's $16 billion IPO. Zuckerberg sold 30.2 million shares at a price of $37.58 for gross proceeds of $1.13 billion; Thiel sold 16.8 million shares for gross proceeds of $633 million. Facebook insiders had told prospective shareholders of their plans in an S-1 filing last week. Facebook sha

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The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops

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Did you hear the one about New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and

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Do you ever feel like you are being watched when you drive? The ACLU believes that feeling of being watched is justified and not only while you're driving. The DEA is tracking Americans' movements by scanning license plates which go in a database. The ACLU believes there are plans to data mine those plate records to better track and build files on us for alleged 'suspicious' activity. If nothing is done about logging and data mining our every move, Americans will lose the freedom to drive around anonymously.

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The Raspberry Pi $35 Linux computer, which is equipped with a 700MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, an SD card slot, two USB ports, an Ethernet jack and both H

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Samsung design VP Chang Dong-hoon has refuted accusations that the Galaxy S III was designed 'by lawyers.'

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Google's deal to buy Motorola Mobility has closed, the company has announced on its blog.

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Somewhere around 200 thousand text messages are sent every second, so it’s no wonder that studies are being done to see how people’s communication with each other is being affected. According to researchers, people tell the truth more over text messages than while talking on the phone.

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Google Seals the Deal on $12.5B Motorola AcquisitionGoogle has officially closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, putting the search giant in charge of a major smartphone, tablet and set-top box maker.

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Since time immemorial, human has tried to defeat one natural phenomenon: death. Despite the prolonged struggle, death still sweeps people off the time line even in the digital era. Now, a social initiative named Russia 2045 aims at achieving this goal by creating humanoids, which are robot replicas of living human beings.

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Our houses may not be anywhere on the tourist map as heritage buildings or famous landmarks. But rest assured every house has a history. Did you know that in some parts of the world, the worth of a house goes up if it has a legacy behind it? A legacy adds to the history of the house and its value. That aside, knowing the history of your own house is an exercise in understanding your own roots.

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New and tougher laws are always on the agendas of rightsholders. They tend to believe that through legislative change and the strict application of law the habits of millions of file-sharers can be changed. But a new survey of 15 to 25 year-olds shows that despite the threats, file-sharing levels remain stable because those carrying it out feel they are doing nothing wrong.

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Larry Page, Chief Executive at Google discloses that the giant search engine is still waiting for Facebook to unlock the user-data and allow the Google users to share data from their Facebook account as well. We all know that

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NASA glaciologist Kimberly Casey has visited six remote glaciers around the world to study what satellites can tell us about particulate pollution on glaciers, and how these particulates impact glacier melting rates.

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Boston student Joel Tenenbaum may be in for a second federal trial.

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In his free time during high school, Adam Munich built himself a machine to see inside other machines

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SpaceX’s history-making mission to the International Space Station is on hold, following a valve malfunction Saturday morning that caused a last-minute launch abort. But the California ...

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U.S. Supreme Court won't reduce the $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the Internet Read more by CBSNews (Hidden Byline) on CBS News' Tech Talk.

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A series of events in the last two weeks have set the stage for how surveillance drones will be operated by local law enforcement in the United States and how citizens can demand privacy protections as domestic use escalates

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The summer season is usually when the lesser-known cable channels decide to debut their own original programing, and this year Hulu is jumping into that game -- with three original shows and seven exclusives.

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It’s been an amazing week with lots of photogenic events to attend. Sharing of the photographs has not been so popular than this before. This twitter imagery of this week consists of interesting topics, humor, a variety of stunning pictures about people and events.

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Want a cheap computer that runs Android on an ARM processor and isn’t a Raspberry Pi? Now you can have it. I’m talking about a new system, called AllWinner, that is now shipping out of China.

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"It's very important that Apple not become the developer for the world," Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, told analysts last month. "We need people to invent their own stuff."

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