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  • Facebook's latest business results have the company and investors in high spirits today. Sales rose significantly and the mobile advertising efforts seem to be working.

  • Machines are becoming alarmingly intelligent, smart enough to root out crime.

  • For musicians these days hitting the road is where the real money is at, as long as people actually show up to see you play. That's where tech startup Rabbl hopes to come in.

  • Yahoo wants blogging site Tumblr to make money, and to do that, Tumblr needs to weed out pornography.

  • Investors are happy with Apple's latest business performance, but the big question is what happens when the company runs out of buyers for its high-end phones and tablets?

  • The House of Representatives votes on an amendment to take away money from the NSA today. It's part of the $500 billion defense spending bill and it's got the tech industry up in arms.

  • Nearly half a billion mobile phone SIM cards might be vunerable to hacking. The vulnerability was revealed by a security researcher in Germany.

  • Apple faces a business quandary: amaze the markets all over again, or compete on small improvements.

  • Since Google bought Motorola and its boatload of patents last year, there's been plenty of speculation the old cellphone company would build a new product.

  • The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
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    Google will make mandatory a plan forcing customers to buy advertising across all platforms.