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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the U.S., New Zealand court says

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges relating to the service, a New Zealand court has ruled.
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YouTube hits another ‘1 billion’ milestone, this one for auto-captioned videos

YouTube began captioning videos in 2006, automating the system three years later. And now it has more than a billion videos with captions.
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Skype is jazzing up its app with four new features to help you ‘express yourself’

Skype is testing out four new handy features for its app: In-call reactions, integrated camera, messaging reactions, and find panel.
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Disgruntled cafe owner bills customers extra if they charge their phones on-site

Patrons of a cafe in Austria who plug their phone in the wall to charge it up are now being asked to pay for the electricity.
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France is now using golden eagles to take down rogue drones

France is following in the footsteps of Dutch police by training up eagles to intercept and retrieve rogue drones.
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Fed up with lousy ‘internet’ speeds in space, NASA is doing something about it

NASA, like a lot of people with lousy internet, is fed up with slow data-transfer speeds between spacecraft and Earth.
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Amazon’s delivery drones may use parachutes to drop packages in your yard

Instead of landing its delivery drones in people's yards, Amazon might drop off packages using a parachute, according to a new patent.
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India just smashed the record for most satellites launched by a single rocket

The Indian Space Research Organisation sent 104 satellites into orbit on a single rocket Tuesday night, setting a new record.
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Toyota hits a green milestone with its 10 millionth hybrid sale

Toyota announced on Tuesday that it's now sold 10 million hybrid vehicles since first introducing the technology back in 1997.
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Pilot-less flying taxis could take to the skies in Dubai this summer

This autonomous flying taxi will start picking up paying passengers -- one at a time -- in Dubai from this summer.
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Wannabe astronaut? A smartphone game could be your ticket for a free ride

Fancy a free trip into space? Perform well on an upcoming gaming app and you could find yourself heading to the ISS.
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J.K. Rowling-Piers Morgan Twitter spat prompts one bookstore to take action

J.K. Rowling and Piers Morgan got into a fight on Twitter recently. Here's how a British bookshop responded.
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Beautiful ‘dronelapse’ shows another kind of video your flying machine can make

YouTube's filling up with run-of-the-mill quadcopter footage, which makes these "dronelapse" efforts stand out all the more.
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Prince’s classic albums are back on Spotify and other streaming sites

Ten months after his untimely death, much of Prince's work has returned to Spotify and other well-known streaming services.
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SpaceX to deliver a lethal superbug to the ISS, but the astronauts don’t mind

SpaceX is about to deliver a lethal superbug to the International Space Station, but it's OK – the astronauts know about it.
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Hyperloop One's co-founder wants to build a rival system before his old partner

Brogan BamBrogan, once the CTO at Hyperloop One, has just launched a rival firm to develop the first operational hyperloop system.
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Forget wiping your phone remotely, this tech lets you destroy its innards instead

A team of researchers has designed a component that, when activated, can destroy a phone's innards in a matter of seconds.
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Hyperloop One rocked by extraordinary allegations in co-founder’s lawsuit

Besides trying to work out how to bring to fruition Elon Musk's dream of an ultra-high-speed transportation system, Hyperloop One executives are now also having to deal with some astonishing claims in a lawsuit from a co-founder and former employee.
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Beleaguered BlackBerry rolls out its latest plan to make some money

BlackBerry plans to use its enterprise-grade BBM messaging technology as the basis for a new revenue-generating service.
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Dating sites gave this startup a neat idea for its apartment-share service

A new online service helping room hunters find a place to live has drawn inspiration from dating sites to create a matchmaking process.
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On-demand laundry services are on the rise, and one is expanding to 15 countries

On-demand laundry services have been around for a while, with some doing better than others. This one is about to expand to 15 countries.
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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub starts handing out big bucks to disease researchers

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a NFP medical research organization, has started to hand out funds for research into combating all human disease.
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SpaceX wants to launch a rocket every two weeks from its new Florida site

SpaceX is about to ramp up its launch schedule to a level not seen in its seven-year history of rocket launches.
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Run by robots: Amazon’s high-tech supermarket may only need three employees

Amazon is testing a high-tech "grab-and-go" store in Seattle. But a new report suggests it's planning a much larger version run by robots.
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A NASA scientist needed to find out if this ‘abandoned space capsule’ was real

It's not every day you stumble across a space capsule while driving along the road, but what exactly is the story behind this one in Arizona?
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Qatar Airways breaks record with a flight many wouldn’t want to take

Like flying? Love long haul? So how about saving up for a seat on Qatar's Doha-to-Auckland route, a record-breaking flight taking 17.5 hours.
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Drone flights at the world’s busiest airport? What’s going on?

The FAA has for the first time allowed a company to fly drones at a major airport, in this case at the world's busiest.
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Watch how two cars made 20 years apart deal with a high-speed crash

Automobile safety has come a really long way in the last two decades, as this recent crash test video shows.
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Medals for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics will be made of recycled smartphones

All the gold medals presented to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 will be made entirely with metal recovered from old tech gadgets.
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Guys who made smartphone photography possible nab a huge cash prize

Advances in digital imaging tech have come thick and fast in recent years, and the engineers responsible have just collected a major award.
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Electric shock risk forces Barnes & Noble to recall faulty Nook Tablet 7 adapters

When the fault with the Nook Tablet 7's adapter was discovered, Barnes & Noble told owners to stop using it.
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Snapseed update brings Curves and other features to the free photo-editing app

Snapseed is a popular photo editing app for iOS and Android. The latest update brings a handy Curves tool for precise and powerful control.
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Amazon to build air cargo hub in Kentucky, creating 2,000 jobs

Increasingly keen to take control of its entire shipping operation, Amazon this week revealed plans for its own air cargo hub in the U.S.
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This personal cargo robot can move your stuff as fast as a bicycle

Gita is a personal robot from the makers of the Vespa. The autonomous droid can hit 22 mph while carrying a load weighing up to 40 pounds.