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Connecticut Proposal Would Hike Tax On Digital Downloads

Downloading e-books, music from iTunes, or apps for your phone could become expensive for folks in Connecticut.

2013/05/22

Sree Tips: YouTube Turns 8

While all the attention has been on the purchase of Tumblr by Yahoo!, there’s been other tech news worth noting. YouTube, the immensely popular video sharing site, turns 8-years-old this week.

2013/05/22

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Seen At 11: Your Deepest Secrets Exposed To Nothing But Strangers

In 2004, Frank Warren started the “Post Secret Project.” He asked strangers to mail their secrets to his Maryland home. Now the secrets are flowing in from all over the world.

2013/05/20

David Karp of Tumblr speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 at The Manhattan Center on May 1, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

New Yorker Sells Social Networking Giant Tumblr To Yahoo! For $1.1 Billion

If you’re a social media junkie, you and a few million others know what Tumblr is. If not, you might be wondering why Yahoo! would pay a king’s ransom for it.

2013/05/20

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Cellphone Scammers Could Be ‘Cramming’ Extra Charges On To Your Bill

Extra charges are getting buried on some cell phone bills and it isn’t the phone company that’s putting them there.

2013/05/16

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Bridgeport High School Student Creates Flexible Seaweed Battery

Among the finalists up for the Intel science prize tonight is Karim Kharbouch, a 17-year-old from the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center.

2013/05/16

Vine Smartphone App Being Abused For Bullying In Video Form

The popular smartphone app Vine is being misused by some teenagers to bully, and educators said they are being proactive about putting an end to it.

2013/05/15

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Sree Tips: Taking Better Photos With Your Smartphone

If you only use your built-in camera, you are missing the opportunity to shoot better photos.

2013/05/15

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Former Long Island Laboratory Used By Inventor Nikola Tesla Purchased By Preservation Group

Jane Alcorn is president of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. Her group officially bought the Tesla lab and property last week for $850,000.

2013/05/07

Conn. Lawmakers Want Your Insurance Co. To Know When You Drive Distracted

Frustrated by drivers who ignore Connecticut’s ban on talking and texting on hand-held cellphones, some state legislators want insurance companies to know when their customers break the law.

2013/05/06

Long Island Programmer Accused Of Hacking Former Employer

A Long Island programmer and systems manager is charged with hacking into his former employer’s computer system and causing more than $90,000 in damage.

2013/05/03

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Stamford Cops Could Be Outfitted With Body Cams

Body cams are lightweight cameras worn by officers which record their interactions with the public.

2013/04/29

LivingSocial Hack May Have Compromised 50 Million Users’ Data

The personal data of more than 50 million LivingSocial customers may have been compromised when the daily deals Web site was hacked this week.

2013/04/27

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Rutgers Student Offers Reward For Data From Stolen Laptop

Student Robb Young says his laptop was taken from room 203 of the school’s Wright-Rieman chemistry lab building in Piscataway on Friday. But the thing is that it contained all of his thesis work, and he has no backup file.

2013/04/25

Sree Tips: Keeping Your Smartphone Battery Going

Smartphones have gotten so much smarter these days, with all kinds of cool new features. They are really mini computers. But the battery life continues to be awful.

2013/04/24

Apple’s iPhone: A Visual History

Solar panel installation at MetLife Stadium as seen from Chopper 880 - East Rutherford, NJ - May 8, 2012 (credit: Tom Kaminski / WCBS 880)

Solar Panels At MetLife Stadium

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Space Shuttle Enterprise Comes To New York City

Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock Launch – Red Carpet

The iPhone 4 Goes Global

The latest iPhone went on sale in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland on July 30, 2010.

Japanese Robot Craze

Back in the 1970′s, it was easy for the Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin, to spot a robotic person or a fembot as the show called them, the fembots couldn’t sweat and were therefore easy to identify.