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

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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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How a cool accessory can save you money

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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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Google's $199 Chromebooks are out and about for your purchasing pleasure.]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:14:57 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/180*120/144717352.jpg
Turns out that heavy social media users are being narcissistic -- but just exactly how and why will result in the type of social media being used.

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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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10-year agreement makes Yahoo a founding partner of Levi's Stadium, and will be the 49ers' official and exclusive content, social networking, and photo and video sharing partner.

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It's taboo to label some of the Silicon Valley's most powerful people as secretaries]]> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:31:48 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/160*120/Google+generic+crop.jpg
Google announces effort to fight back against online child pornography.

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

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A rumor suggests Facebook is working on an RSS feed replacement that could fill a void left by Google Reader's demise.]]> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:45:28 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/213*120/KNBC_000000007167390_722x406_33463875799.jpg
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...]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:45:06 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/213*120/KNTV_000000003756822_722x406_33440323589.jpg
9-year old Menlo Park boy to get his "Wish."]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:22:58 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/213*120/hp-hewlett-packard.jpg
Percentage-wise, Hewlett-Packard spends less on research and development now than it has at any time in its company history.

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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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Uber makes its move by undercutting taxis

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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 16:42:56 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/177*120/169137327_8.jpg
Let the bidding begin. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is the latest Bay Area big wig to auction off a lunch in the name of charity.

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Silicon Valley technology may have just saved a classic opera.]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:41:34 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.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 14:16:17 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/207*120/0605-biotech.jpg
A new study reveals that over a quarter of technical jobs in Silicon Valley are held by people without university degrees.

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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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San Francisco police chief says Apple's announcement of Activation Lock will start a trend in the smartphone world.

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Paypal founder Elon Musk, the technology tycoon and Tesla Motors chief, now has a new idea that will send you from L.A to San Francisco in a half hour. So what is it? Here are some guesses.]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:57:57 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/213*120/060313-sean-parker-getty.jpg
Need a reason to hate Sean Parker less? The technology mogul, in his own words, explains his $4.5 million wedding.]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:40:47 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/180*120/foodtruck1.jpg
LinkedIn has a cool way to keep employees - Feed them.

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Only one tech company seemed exempt from the U.S. government surveillance project PRISM -- Twitter.

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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 16:09:59 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/213*120/AP526381492358.jpg
Google product placement in "The Internship" made the tech titan OK the film, but critics aren't as pleased.

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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 04:45:23 -0700 http://media.nbcbayarea.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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Facial detection software helping shape marketing industry, but some consumers have concerns with new technology.

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