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Secret US Spy Program Tracks Cellphone Users
(Newser) - The extent to which the US government spies on US soil continues to unfold. The latest revelation: Using Cessna aircraft over at least five metropolitan-area airports, the Justice Department oversees (albeit to an unknown extent) a program that indiscriminately accesses large amounts of cellphone data, including identifying information and people'... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Mom Uses App to Find Son ... at Police Station
(Newser) - A mom worried that her teenage son wasn't answering his phone used an app to track him down, but she wasn't too happy where the trail ended. That would be the 103rd Precinct in Queens, reports DNA Info . The 16-year-old was being held for questioning with another teen... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Master Hacker's Downfall: Password Was Cat's Name
(Newser) - Jeremy Hammond is a guy so notorious for hacking anything and everything that he's currently cooling his heels in federal lockup for 10 years over his penchant for opening cyber doors. So it's more than a little surprising when, in the course of an interview at Manchester Federal... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Using Social Security Numbers as ID Is a Bad Idea
(Newser) - Chances are, your Social Security number is out there in wide circulation—everyone from the cable company to the bank to the doctor seems to require it. But as CNN reports, these numbers are hardly secure, with 6.5 million stolen this year alone. "This raises an important question,... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Pantyhose Help Reveal Why Mosquitoes Prefer Humans
(Newser) - Thousands of years ago some mosquitoes made "a really good evolutionary move": They developed a taste for humans. A new study digs into the genes that led to this evolutionary shift, which had many mosquitoes give up on furry forest animals—and it relied on guinea pigs and pantyhose... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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People Admit They Use Work Bathrooms to Eat, Cry, Exercise
(Newser) - In about 10 seconds, the words "why," "how," and "no" are going to escape from your lips, and we apologize in advance for that. But those are likely the same words that researchers for SCA, a Swedish global hygiene company, uttered as they compiled results... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Amazon, Hachette Make Nice
(Newser) - Amazon and Hachette have resolved the dispute that caused authors, including two very important Stephens ( King and Colbert ), to speak out against the online retailer. The deal was announced this morning, and though details have not been made public, a new multiyear contract was signed and Hachette won... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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'Godfather House' for Sale for $2.9M
(Newser) - If you would like to live as Don Vito Corleone lived, you (kind of) can, for just $2.89 million. The 6,248-square-foot Staten Island mansion whose exterior was used in The Godfather is up for sale for that much. As the Staten Island Advance explains, five homes on Longfellow... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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In Taylor vs. Spotify, It's She Said vs. He Said
(Newser) - The back-and-forth between Taylor Swift and Spotify continues: Though Spotify says Swift would have made $6 million from the streaming service this year had she not pulled all her music from it , Swift's record label tells Time she's been paid less than $500,000 for domestic streaming of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Buffett Snaps Up Duracell in $3B Deal
(Newser) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is buying Duracell from Procter & Gamble in a deal valued at approximately $3 billion. Berkshire has been a significant P&G shareholder since the consumer products firm acquired Gillette in 2005, but the Duracell acquisition will use nearly all of Berkshire's 52.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Ladies, Meet the Lumbersexual
(Newser) - He's unshaven, a little dirty, and dresses like a woodsman. No, he's not a slob, he's … sexy? This guy—think Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor, Nick Offerman, or Chuck Norris—is a lumbersexual, apparently. And just what is that? He's the opposite of the... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Insured Woman Treated at 'Wrong' Hospital Billed $50K
(Newser) - After suffering a heart attack that nearly killed her at age 29 last year, Megan Rothbauer would love to be celebrating being alive, not to mention planning her wedding and future family. Unfortunately for her, she was in a coma when paramedics arrived and could not ask them to take... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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'Unicorn Deer' Found on 2 Continents
(Newser) - You can start believing in magic again, because not only are fanged deer real, it turns out unicorns are, too. Well, sort of. In August, a hunter shot an elderly roe deer bearing a single, centered antler in the forests of Slovenia, reports National Geographic . It's not uncommon to... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, November 14, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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