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Rihanna has nabbed Justin Bieber’s claim as YouTube’s most-viewed artist.

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Yahoo says that U.S. law enforcement agencies filed "between 12,000 and 13,000" requests for data from Jan. 1, 2013 to May 31 of this year, according to Reuters. Yahoo made the announcement in a blog on...

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Facebook crashed on Tuesday and people took to Twitter to lob complaints, laugh and joke about the outage. Website monitoring site DownRightNow noted that the social network went down at around 9:10

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The Oxford English Dictionary is catching up to the high-tech world. The word "tweet," appearing both as a noun and a verb, was added to the dictionary despite the OED's own rule that "a new word needs to...

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Madden 25, EA Sports' upcoming football game, is a two-headed monster.

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Car burglars appear to be using a new high-tech device that allows them to disable alarm systems and quickly enter vehicles. Law enforcement agencies are stumped as to how they can prevent the...]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:11:25 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/144562412.jpg
Social media's beloved hashtag is finally coming to Facebook. While many users are already using hashtags on the site, they served no purpose until Wednesday, when Facebook announced in a blog post that...

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Inside the Stanford Linear Accelerator, a microscope the size of a room, de-codes parts of a 1797 opera by Luigi Cherubin. NBC Bay Area's Scott Budman explains.]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:41:34 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/waze_app.jpg
As was much anticipated, Google bought the popular Israeli mapping app Waze on Tuesday for an undisclosed sum, according to its blog. A source close to the matter told Reuters that Google reportedly beat...]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:13:58 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/216*120/6C7813775-picture-10.blocks_desktop_large.png
Google celebrated the career of late children's author Maurice Sendak today by turning its homepage into an animated homage of his work. Featuring characters and scenes from various Sendak stories such as "Wher...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled a new digital radio service and an operating system for the company's mobile devices that he called the biggest change ever to the iPhone. Developers from 64 countries packed the 24t...

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Police in various cities across the Metroplex are warning people who buy or sell items online to be careful. Read the full story here.]]> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:01:45 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/waste+no+food+1+copy.jpg
At the same time millions of people in America go hungry for lack of food, billions of pounds of food goes wasted for lack of people to eat it. Kiran Sridhar thinks that is appalling.]]> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:45:23 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/geoff+rickly+robbed.jpg
A Brooklyn musician is thanking a popular social media app for helping him locate the man who robbed him in Greenpoint. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

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Experts say that technology like Cara, a facial detection software program that turns any web cam into a face detection system, can scan dozens of faces up to 25 feet away, and determine gender...]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:46:42 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/186*120/981943_10151642958841259_168679708_o.jpg
A Palo Alto company is using 3D technology to design video game characters. Scott Budman reports. Read the full story here.

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Dubbed a "survival action" game, the company's newest title, "The Last of Us" is set in a post apocalyptic United States and centers around Joel, a smuggler and his cargo, a young girl named Ellie, who he...

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Mickey Delorenzo developed Hungry Lizards as a way to cope with the death of his 2-day-old son. NBC10's Tim Furlong reports.

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A tool that lets sexually active people receive and share their STD testing results digitally is now available to students in the Los Angeles School District. Qpid.me relays STD and HIV test results from a healt...

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Facebook made a mea culpa on Tuesday and acknowledged in a blog post that it has "become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly aroun...

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A Manhattan woman who survived a violent mugging says an app is helping her feel safe again. Brynn Gingras reports.]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 08:55:31 -0400 http://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/edt-roadside.jpg
Heading on a road trip? Tech gurus ease the hassle of long car trip with handy summer travel apps.]]>