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Hyperloop: Why can't we believe in the big ideas? When most of the tech industry seems obsessed with finding each other at restaurants and ranking their own influence, it's exciting to hear about tech that could change the world. So why are we all so skeptical about it? | Microsoft vs.Google: When tech firms fight, you lose either way The dustup over a YouTube app for Windows Phone serves as a reminder: Consumers always wind up as collateral damage in the skirmishing between big tech companies. | Google filing says Gmail users have no expectation of privacy In motion to dismiss a data-mining lawsuit, Web giant says people have "no legitimate expectation of privacy in information" voluntarily turned over to third parties. | NSA violated privacy rules thousands of times, audit finds Transgressions ranged from serious legal violations to typos that led to unintended data collection, according to documents supplied to The Washington Post. | CIA declassifies covert details on the secretive Area 51 Debunking many conspiracy theories, a massive 355-page declassified report details the birth of Area 51 and the U-2 spy planes developed and tested there. | Microsoft: Windows 8.1 to roll out October 18 The free update will kick off in New Zealand. Microsoft has been tinkering away at Windows 8.1 since its June unveiling, so even users of the preview edition will find a few surprises. | Blingy gold iPhone casing crops up in pics, likely for 5S Photos of what's purportedly a gold model of Apple's next iPhone crop up online ahead of the device's official announcement. | Samsung slashes price of curved OLED TV to $8,999 Undercutting the price of rival LG, and previous reports, by six grand, Samsung announces its first curved OLED TV for a price of $8,999. | NASA's Kepler may have spied its last Earth-like planet The space agency is giving up on restoring its planet-hunting spacecraft to full operational capability, but that doesn't mean the mission is over just yet. | BlackBerry is officially for sale, but will it find a buyer? The Canadian smartphone maker puts a "for sale" sign up. But who is likely to be interested in buying the beleaguered company as it steadily loses ground to Apple and Google? | |  |  | Anne Dujmovic
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