From Airbnb to GasBuddy to shopkick, lots of apps and websites help consumers save money. FULL STORY

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Twitter unveiled its latest project on Thursday: A video sharing service called Vine that allows users to post a single six-second clip, or a montage of equal length. FULL STORY

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AT&T announced record quarterly smartphone sales on Thursday. FULL STORY

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Windows 8 gave Microsoft a bump last quarter, though its impact was more muted than the software giant might have liked. FULL STORY

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Service had been restored by midday Thursday for tens of thousands of AT&T's U-verse TV, Internet and phone customers after an outage that lasted several days. FULL STORY

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The removal of 500px from Apple's App Store raises questions over review equity, fairness and API functionality. FULL STORY

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Facebook and Google are battling it out to dominate your smartphone time and, for now, Facebook is winning. FULL STORY

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Netflix shocked Wall Street with a surprise profit of 13 cents per share on Wednesday, as analysts were expecting a loss of the same amount for the fourth quarter. FULL STORY

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Apple reported a record quarter on Wednesday, boosted by strong iPhone and iPad sales, but the popularity of cheaper versions of its mobile devices pinched the company's profits. FULL STORY

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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened to hit Palm with patent litigation if the company did not stop poaching valuable employees, according to a newly unsealed court filing (hat tip to Reuters). The document surfaced as part of a lawsuit between former employees of companies like Apple, Google, and Intel over the comp… FULL STORY

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When Microsoft introduced Windows 8, its goals were ambitious: a single operating system for both computer and tablet. When it unveiled the Surface, it upped the stakes: One single device promised both laptop and tablet experiences. No compromises. FULL STORY

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An MIT graduate student has built an interactive online map that displays one dot for every resident of the United States and Canada, as counted by the most recent censuses. That's 341,817,095 dots. FULL STORY

In a perfect world, our most popular Twitterer might be a brilliant scientist, writer, philosopher or spiritual leader. FULL STORY

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Verizon sold a record number of iPhones in the fourth quarter, but only about half of those were the newest iPhone 5 model. FULL STORY

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Google's got a mobile dilemma. FULL STORY

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It's a big beat for Big Blue. FULL STORY

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Groupon has suspended all gun-related daily deals. The move will please those calling on Groupon to change its policies, but at least one gun shop owner is livid about his deal being canceled midway through. FULL STORY

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Dell has been a Microsoft customer for decades. Soon, Microsoft may be calling the shots. FULL STORY

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Three months after the release of the Surface RT, Microsoft is ready to deliver the pricier and more powerful Surface Pro to consumers on February 9. FULL STORY

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Maybe it didn't have quite the grandeur of President Barack Obama's historic inauguration four years ago. But Monday's Inauguration Day events showcased the pomp and circumstance of the U.S. government at its finest. FULL STORY

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Sometime on Sunday, the world will lurch a little on its axis. There'll be a thunderclap heard around the globe, a blinding flash of light, and the people of the Internet will fall to their knees in reverence. FULL STORY

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What happens when 900,000 people gather in one place and try to make cell phone calls, or post photos to Facebook? Busy signals, dropped calls, and photo and video messages that never go through. FULL STORY

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The U.S. arm of Atari, the iconic video game company that created "Pong," filed for bankruptcy on Monday. FULL STORY

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It was a busy weekend, but Kim Dotcom was feeling relaxed. FULL STORY

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PayPal's overzealous fraud filters have frustrated customers for years, with an inscrutable verification process that leaves some battling for months to get access to their money. FULL STORY

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Here we go again. It's time for a ride on the wireless carrier profit roller coaster. FULL STORY

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More details about Google chairman Eric Schmidt's surreptitious trip to North Korea emerged this weekend in a blog post by Schmidt's daughter and traveling companion, Sophie. FULL STORY

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The world of automated home gadgets is young and exciting, filled with an abundance of promising new products. It's also a bit of a mess. FULL STORY

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I have a dog. A dog who, as I write this, is curled up quietly on the sofa, probably dreaming about dog things: Chasing squirrels. Riding in the car. His fake doggy girlfriend in California whom he's never actually met. FULL STORY

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A federal prosecutor is pushing back against the claim by the grieving family of Internet activist Aaron Swartz that "prosecutorial overreach" was a factor in his suicide, saying her office acted "fairly and responsibly." FULL STORY

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Football is America's most popular sport, so you wouldn't think the National Football League would have any trouble getting fans to come to games. FULL STORY

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Manti Te'o's Twitter bio reads: "Life is a storm.. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes." FULL STORY

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According to Facebook's new search feature, only two of my 526 friends like cats. Judging by the number of cat photos filling my feed every day, this is obviously not accurate. FULL STORY

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Soon you won't have to worry about your phone falling in the toilet, tumbling into a puddle or someone inadvertently dribbling coffee into the headphone socket (we've all done it). FULL STORY

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Resting on the icy cool surface of the Baltic Sea, a rickety old boat of hardy sailors works long into the night. FULL STORY

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Intel's attempt to reinvent the PC hasn't worked yet. FULL STORY

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U.S. officials grounded Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner because the aircraft's advanced batteries appear to be malfunctioning. But what's the problem? And can it be fixed? FULL STORY

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The Node is an unassuming white cylinder, but it packs a punch: this difficult-to-describe device can detect carbon monoxide levels, find your perfect shade of paint and tell you when your laundry is done. FULL STORY

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Facebook's new "Graph Search" promises to let users sift through the network's vast trove of posts and photos to produce more helpful results. FULL STORY

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The tech press started buzzing earlier this month with reports that Facebook planned to add VoIP (voice over IP) calling to its Messenger app for the iPhone. The new feature officially arrived Tuesday, when Facebook released an update for its app. FULL STORY

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When Mark Zuckerberg set out to build Facebook in the fall of 2003, he was still trying to figure out exactly what the website should be. One conclusion he arrived at pretty early on was that it shouldn't be branded as a dating site. FULL STORY

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The search feature on Facebook has traditionally been pretty limited. You type in a name of a person or a business, and it pulls up their Facebook page. FULL STORY

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Facebook has a mind-blowing amount of useful information sitting on its servers -- 500 terabytes of new data every day, at last count -- but until now it lacked an efficient way for any one person to take advantage of it. So it created "Graph Search," which will allow all of us to pillage our friends' status updates, i… FULL STORY

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Computer mouse, your days are numbered. Mouse-less computing is the hot new tech frontier: laptops and tablets controlled by touch, voice, eye-tracking and hand movements. FULL STORY

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A month after the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association is taking heat again -- this time for releasing a mobile video game that lets players learn how to shoot at targets. FULL STORY

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