Website can find your exact location with your phone number

In the battle for privacy on the Internet, even the most helpful tools designed to fight bank fraud and even find missing children could be used for much more nefarious purposes.




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How to watch the Super Bowl on your smartphone

Let the game begin...on your smartphone! The best way to experience the Super Bowl is right in the palm of your hand.




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How to chat with an NFL star during the Super Bowl

Just in time for the Super Bowl, U.S. military personnel can use a free app to talk about the big game with their family and friends -- and a few football players themselves.




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Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet (AP)

In this undated photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories, a time exposure, a light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a self-guided bullet at Sandia National Laboratories shows a bright path during a nighttime field test. The  New Mexico-based  Sandia National Laboratories  announced Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 that its  engineers have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away.  According to Sandia Labs engineers, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself toward a laser-directed point. Officials say it can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air.  (AP Photo/Sandia National Laboratories)AP - Figuring out how to pack a processor and other electronics into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge for engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, so weapons experts say the miniature guidance system the lab has developed is a breakthrough.




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WillCall and other iPhone apps are changing the ticket game (Appolicious)

Appolicious - The other day, TechCrunch tipped us off to a hot new last-minute ticket-selling app called WillCall. The app currently lets users choose their purchases from a select list of concerts, but will soon expand to include tickets to plays and symphonies as well. WillCall is currently only available in San Francisco but will expand to Los Angeles and New York City in March.

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Russian scientists eye mission to moon this decade

Russia's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this decade, Pravda.ru reported




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California woman's small claims victory resonates (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 file photo, Heather Peters, who says her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid never achieved the gas mileage Honda claimed in its advertising, and also did a computer upgrade that further diminished the mileage, please her case in Small Claims Court in Torrrance, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. Peters had opted out of a class action settlement agreed to by Honda because it does not provide enough remuneration. On Feb. 1, 2012, it was announced that Peters had won her unusual lawsuit against the auto giant over the vehicle's failure to deliver the promised mileage. A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner has awarded Peters $9,867, just under the Small Claims Court limit of $10,000. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)AP - Heather Peter's computer crashed under the onslaught of messages following her unique victory over Honda in small claims court — a win the California woman is hoping will lead other consumers to reject a class action settlement over defective hybrid cars.




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First 'Vampire' Bat Fly Fossil Discovered (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 million years, scientists report in a pair of studies Friday (Feb. 3).

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Are Apple, Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies? (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market.

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New Mobile Carrier Offers Truly-Customizable Plans

Tired of paying for voice minutes you never use? New mobile phone service Ting thinks you shouldn't have to.



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TouchPal Keyboard Tablet tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

Appolicious - The touchscreen keyboard gets an upgrade with TouchPal's Keyboard for Android tablets. It lets you easily switch between swiping and tapping, as well as gestures to get the most out of your finger follies. This week also brought some big name updates to the Android Market, including special upgrades from McAfee Security and Mint's personal finance app. Salesforce debuted its Rypple app this week, as did Eventbrite for managing events on-the-go.

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Canada, Alberta seek to assuage oil sands critics (Reuters)

Reuters - Canada will set up a new environmental monitoring system for the northern Alberta oil sands as it seeks to fend off harsh international criticism following revelations that oversight of the huge petroleum development has been insufficient.

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Micron Chief Dies in Small-Plane Crash, Investigation Ongoing

Micron chairman and chief executive Steve Appleton died on Friday at age 51 in a small place crash in Boise. 



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AP Enterprise: Monkey owners flee La. crackdown (AP)

In this Jan. 24, 2012 photo, Jim and Donita Clark play with two of their four Capuchin monkeys in the bedroom inside their RV at an undisclosed location near the Louisiana Border in Texas. Even in their Texas hideout, the Clarks are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years. Exotic animal owners like them say wildlife agents have been cracking down in Louisiana and around the country after high-profile cases of exotic animals getting loose or attacking people. At least six states have also banned the ownership of wild animals since 2005, and Congress is also mulling tighter restrictions. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Even in their Texas hideout, Jim and Donita Clark are terrified that wildlife agents from their home state of Louisiana will descend on their motorhome and seize the four Capuchin monkeys they've reared for 10 years.




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Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system.

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Missing scientists mystery deepens in frozen Antarctica

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown.




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Apple World's Third Biggest Mobile Phone Manufacturer: Report

Thanks to its record-breaking quarter of shipments, Apple has jumped into the third spot in the list of the world's top five mobile phone manufacturers, an International Data Corporation (IDC) report claimed.



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USDA awards $40 million grants to boost local farm/food projects (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday awarded $40.2 million in grants to farmers, ranchers and farmer-controlled rural business ventures aimed at spurring locally produced food supplies and renewable energy ventures.

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NASA says Russian space woes no worry (AP)

AP - NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.

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Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)

AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.

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