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Fake girlfriend: I paid for make-believe love on Facebook

YoopyaFeb 14, 20130

Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is smart, pretty and has hopes and dreams of getting to grad school. And for $5 she will be your girlfriend. “It’s not

Google hits back against BT with patent lawsuits

YoopyaFeb 14, 20130

(Reuters) – Google Inc and its Motorola Mobility unit struck back on Wednesday against BT Group Plc, filing patent lawsuits against the British telecommunications group

Small brown-and-white owl with whistling song identified as new species in Indonesia

YoopyaFeb 14, 20130

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Researchers looking for a nocturnal bird in Indonesia accidentally identified a new species of owl – one that has a distinct

Ford’s open-source kit brings era of smart car apps

YoopyaFeb 11, 20130

OpenXC will set the hacker community loose on Ford’s car computer systems – expect a host of apps to improve vehicles’ performance and efficiency MIRROR,

Square scandal highlights growing pains at tech start-ups

YoopyaFeb 11, 20130

(Reuters) – When Square Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois left his job last month, citing legal threats from a young colleague with whom he had

Kids using coding skills to hack friends on games, expert says

YoopyaFeb 9, 2013April 10, 20230

Children as young as 11 years old are writing malicious computer code to hack accounts on gaming sites and social networks, experts have said. A

Last-stand Neanderthals queried

YoopyaFeb 8, 20130

We may need to look again at the idea that a late Neanderthal population existed in southern Spain as recently as 35,000 years ago, a

The 14-Inch HP Chromebook Is Official, Could Become a Big Seller

YoopyaFeb 4, 20130

It was outed a week ago, but Google and HP are making it official, there’s a new HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook. The new device is now

Man in Jail for 5 Years over Insulting Kuwaiti Ruler on Twitter

YoopyaFeb 4, 2013June 24, 20230

Insulting the emir in the Arab state of Kuwait has landed a man in jail. The allegedly slanderous comments have been made on the Twitter

Google settles French newspaper links dispute

YoopyaFeb 2, 2013September 11, 20250

Google has agreed to create a 60m euro ($82m; £52m) fund to help French media organisations improve their internet operations. It follows two months of