top stories Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have received clearance from regulators in Washington and Europe to proceed with a search partnership intended to challenge Google Inc. The nation's top telecommunications regulator says he wants 100 million U.S. households to have access to have ultra-high-speed Internet connections by 2020. The message is an example of an increasingly common hacker technique known as spear-phishing, a much more effective and carefully crafted variation of the phishing lures that seek to trick victims into surrendering their private data. Movies in 3-D are becoming such big moneymakers that Hollywood studios are cramming them into the nation's theaters, even though there aren't enough screens available to give each film its fullest possible run. sci/tech ticker
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