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Queen Victoria's gadgets: Tech gear for the steampunk set Occupying a fantastic world where Charles Darwin meets Steve Jobs, steampunk-modded devices blend 19th- and early 20th-century styles with 21st-century tech. Get an eyeful of these cool and clever computers, cellphones, speakers and more. Read More Ditch XP movement finally helps PC business Companies buying new PCs to avoid the end of support for Windows XP helped the computer industry dodge an even gloomier quarter, IDC said. Read More Confidence in U.S. as dominant innovator rises A global survey of 811 technology business leaders by KPMG gives the U.S. an edge in what may be a mercurial index that rises and falls with the overall economy. Read More Edward R. Murrow's audio essays with the famous -- and not-so-famous -- have been digitized and put online Tufts University hired Iron Mountain to restore and digitize tapes from Edward R. 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Learn More Japanese government accidentally shares internal mails over Google Groups A Japanese ministry is conducting an internal investigation after a Google Groups account used for international treaty negotiations was left on its default, publicly viewable settings. Read More Sprint guarantees unlimited talk, text and data 'for life' Sprint and its new owner, SoftBank, hit the ground running on Thursday by announcing service plans that can include guaranteed talk, text and data for life. Read More Microsoft helped NSA circumvent its own encryption, report says Microsoft helped the National Security Agency circumvent the company's own encryption in order to conduct surveillance on email accounts through Outlook.com, according to a report in the Guardian. Read More Verizon joins Ubuntu carrier advisory group Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is unclear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Read More Greg Lambert: Six degrees of patches this July This month, we have seven updates, with six rated as "critical" and one rated as "important." We are on track for a bumper year of critical updates ─ with 22, so far ─ compared to 34 for all of 2012. Read More Oracle equips WebLogic, Coherence for cloud use Oracle has updated some of its middleware and developer products to make them better equipped for private cloud deployments, releasing major updates for the WebLogic application server and Oracle Coherence in-memory data cache. Read More Firefox OS simulator adds commerce feature for app developers The latest simulator for the upcoming Firefox mobile OS is aimed to please developers planning to sell applications. Read More
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