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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:57:41 PSTIn an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:30:00 PSTWomen around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:12:45 PSTHow many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:59:49 PSTNo, they won't, like Tom Brady, be viewing an illegal streaming site. Instead, Coke is using social media and the Web in order to have its polar bears react to the game as it's in progress.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:55:20 PSTA woman allegedly claims that her daughter knows Mark Zuckerberg and happens to have been given $1 million of Facebook stock. She then allegedly tries to sell that stock.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:43:20 PSTThe big Apple launch event was made for Steve Jobs. But now that he's not around, should Apple think of a different, more modern way of launching its products?
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:50 PSTSilicon Valley startup Saygent crunches survey data and finds that picks for the big game may differ by political affiliation.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:47:45 PSTIn an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:45:00 PSTMonster may have gone too far with the bling factor, but its new Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude in-ear headphones sound sweet.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:00:00 PSTThe National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:25:20 PSTThe death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:54:49 PSTIn a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy?
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:39:08 PSTNoise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:24:17 PSTAs the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:07:48 PSTTweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story.
