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Wreaking havoc: Ashley Madison breach shows hackers’ shifting motives
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Hackers claiming a moralistic purpose have a long tradition on the Internet, but they’re causing much more damage than ever before.
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M is for Marshmallow: Google names its next Android update
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The search giant unveils the name of its next update for smartphones and tablets. Some key features include a new mobile payments system and some tricks for the company’s digital assistant, Google Now.
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Startup aims to make home devices smart enough to anticipate what you need
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Silk Labs wants to weave its software and services into all the new networked devices coming to homes of the future. Behind it: a trio fresh from the ambitious Firefox OS smartphone project.
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Google unveils OnHub, a Wi-Fi router for the smart-home era
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The search giant’s newest device is a router Google hopes you’ll display proudly, and gives the company a beachhead for tech in your home too.
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Sprint CEO hints at plan to turn old iPhones into new customers
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Marcelo Claure talks up the carrier’s new iPhone Forever program and points to upcoming network test results that put Sprint on top in at least one major market.
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Apple TV drops to fourth place behind Amazon’s Fire TV
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Sales of the Apple TV, which hasn’t had a significant update in three years, drop behind streaming-TV box players Roku, Google and — for the first time — Amazon.
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Seattle wants the tech scene, but not the division that could come with it
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The Emerald City is brewing plenty of startups, thanks in part to tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. But can it avoid a rift in the community?
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To inspire software and hardware developers, Intel gets bold and very weird
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At its annual developer conference, the chipmaker lays out the future and asks the tech community to help make it reality.
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How blazing Internet speeds helped Chattanooga shed its smokestack past
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For Road Trip 2015, CNET looks at how one Southern city’s embrace of superfast Internet turned it into a magnet for tech entrepreneurs.
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Apple stands by Dre after apology for hurting women
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After the rapper became an Apple employee following its $3.3 billion takeover of Beats, attention to his past violence has become the latest barb against the tech industry’s treatment of women.
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