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FBI arrests man for allegedly creating “Silk Road 2.0” to sell drugs on the Dark Web
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Facebook wants you to join the fight against Ebola
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Microsoft releases new Office apps for iOS, announces test apps for Android
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LivingSocial to cut jobs as the company charts a new path
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The Switchboard: How a change to judicial rules could give the FBI more hacking power
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7 Colorado communities just secured the right to build their own broadband
Voters in Boulder and a half-dozen other municipalities chose overwhelmingly to opt out of a state ban on government-built Internet service.
Microsoft’s Surface upstaged by iPads in CNN’s election coverage
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Taylor Swift did something unusual: She got people to pay for her music
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This Prague cafe only accepts bitcoin
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The story behind Prague’s bitcoin-only cafe
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The Switchboard: NSA reformers lose one of their biggest allies in the Senate
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With Udall’s defeat, NSA reformers lose an ally on the inside
The Senate Democrat from Colorado has been one of the most vocal supporters of the push for checking the intelligence community’s powers.
Court hears arguments on NSA collection of phone records
A political activist has challenged the constitutionality of a counterterrorism program to collect data on phone use.
Disney will let you pay once to watch movies on iOS and Android
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