Search giant Google on Friday debuted a "motion-controlled" e-mail system that lets users write digital messages by moving their bodies instead of typing on keyboards, which Google says are "outdated" and "inefficient." FULL STORY

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On our weekly "Tech Check" podcast, CNN.com's Tech team breaks down Google's +1 button, Amazon's "cloud" music service, Topeka's Google snub and one very funny cobra. FULL STORY

Microblog Sina Weibo lets users embed pictures, post comments and easily communicate. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports. FULL VIDEO

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At Wednesday's announcement of Google's +1, the company was coy about comparing its experimental product to the longstanding Facebook Like button. But in the two companies' ongoing battle for ad dollars, +1 is a clear shot across Facebook's bow. FULL STORY

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Hybrids and electric vehicles were just the beginning. Next up: the mushroom mobile. FULL STORY

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Microsoft has a surprising ally in its argument that Google is an abusive monopolist: Samuel Miller, the prosecutor who led the federal government's first antitrust case against Microsoft more than a decade ago. FULL STORY

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Could firefighters one day use an electric wand to zap flames away? FULL STORY

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New hamster-ball-style technology uses the sun to turn dirty water into clean. FULL VIDEO

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Google is pretty good with robots. Not so much with people. FULL STORY

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Facebook has the "Like" button. Now Google has the "+1" button. FULL STORY

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Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. FULL STORY

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Google's announcement that it's adding a "+1" button to incorporate user recommendations into its search results raised a lot of questions not addressed in the company's official announcement. FULL STORY

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CNN's Eunice Yoon travels to a village where the residents make their living selling through Taobao.com. FULL VIDEO

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What more could a city do? FULL STORY

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Francisco Dao is over it. FULL STORY

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Amazon this week became the first big internet company to offer something called "cloud music." To the unfamiliar, that term may seem off-putting, like a new soft-rock genre that leans heavily on harp solos. But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future. FULL STORY

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By the end of 2011, Android will be the most popular smartphone platform worldwide. At least that's what the International Data Corporation predicts in its latest worldwide quarterly mobile report. FULL STORY

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In the wake of Egypt's "Facebook revolution," which was fueled in part by online social networks, much has been made about the role of technology in encouraging or even creating democracy. FULL STORY

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Hardly a day goes by without new estimates of what popular privately held online companies may be worth. Facebook at $75 billion? Groupon with a value of $25 billion? Nearly $10 billion apiece for Zynga and Twitter? It's tough to not look at these… FULL STORY

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The year-long wait is over: Google announced Wednesday that it has chosen to deploy its ultra-fast broadband network in Kansas City, Kansas. FULL STORY

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Spring has officially sprung for the video game industry, with new systems such as Nintendo's glasses-free, handheld 3DS and new titles such as "Crysis 2" and "Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars" leading the charge. FULL STORY

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Fact: In this crazy game called life, you will encounter people with whom you won't want to engage. FULL STORY

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Overhauling the United States' outdated and flawed patent system has been talked about for decades, but reform could finally be around the corner -- for real, this time. FULL STORY

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Two decades after helping to design the first atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, was asked to describe how he felt after the bomb's first test. "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky," he quoted from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, "that would be like… FULL STORY

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A doctor in Idaho helped develop a smart phone app that blocks texts and calls while a car is moving. KIDK reports. FULL VIDEO

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Chinese Internet company Qihoo 360 went public with a bang Wednesday morning on the New York Stock Exchange, with shares immediately doubling at the start of trading. FULL STORY

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Three bald eagles are expected to hatch in Decorah, Iowa, between March 30 and April 1 -- and you can watch it happen. FULL STORY

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Jack Dorsey got the Twitter ball rolling, or chirping, on March 21, 2006. FULL STORY

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An escaped Egyptian cobra has slithered its way out of a New York City zoo and onto the internet, where the reptile is winning tens of thousands of fans. FULL STORY

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Despite online security concerns, the number of Americans who use mobile devices to access financial services is growing fast, according to new data from comScore. FULL STORY

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A confused crossword puzzle. A psychedelic postage stamp. A bar code on drugs. FULL STORY

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Making sense of a disaster is about to get a bit easier. FULL STORY

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Amazon on Tuesday launched the Amazon Cloud Drive, an Internet service that lets customers store music and other digital files on the company's servers and access them on computers, smartphones and other devices. FULL STORY

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Predicting trends in the technology field can be a fool's errand, but forecasting the rapidly changing wireless space is particularly perilous. FULL STORY

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CNN's Dan Simon talks to Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka about the success of hit mobile game "Angry Birds." FULL VIDEO

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LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, but it isn't a long-term solution to the nation's wireless problems. FULL STORY

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Vimeo set an ambitious goal for its premiere iPhone application. FULL STORY

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Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon's servers and play them via the web or Android. FULL STORY

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Greetings, everyone! It's a great day for baseball. FULL STORY

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Apple has traditionally debuted new iPhones at its annual software developers conference, but this year's event in June will be 100 percent software news, according to a report. FULL STORY

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A new computer system which plays music using brainpower alone is being developed by researchers in the UK with the aim of helping people suffering from severe physical disabilities. FULL STORY

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Apple's iPad 2 was launched, Friday, in London with great fanfare. Nina Dos Santos reports. FULL VIDEO

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The New York Times plans to add a paywall to its website on Monday in the United States. And the internet isn't too happy. FULL STORY

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Fresh off a $30 million funding round, Internet publisher Cheezburger Network -- known for FAIL blog and LOLcats -- is expanding its New York presence by acquiring Know Your Meme. FULL STORY

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CNN's Jo Ling Kent in Beijing explains China's "Great Firewall" and how users circumvent it. FULL VIDEO

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