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  • Fantasy football players are studying up for the new NFL season

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  • Apparently love, among other things, is slowing down contributions to Wikipedia

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  • We're getting closer and closer to the day when we can use our smartphones to buy pretty much whatever we want.

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  • Cybersecurity geeks are in Las Vegas this week to talk about problems and vulnerabilities with all sorts of information technology. Part-intellectual, part-show-off, a lot scary, it's the Black Hat convention.

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  • Unlimited data plans on our smartphones are inching closer and closer to extinction; even folks grand-fathered in to older phone plans aren't safe

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  • Telecomix is a loosely organized group of technophiles. They call themselves internauts — like astronauts — but instead of exploring space, they're Internet adventurers. For the past several months, Telecomix has been building ad-hoc communications systems all over the Middle East.

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  • Pocatello, Idaho, has a new claim to fame: It may just have the slowest Internet connection in America

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  • No, it's not a terrorist scheme or the plotline of some second-rate summer blockbuster. But tiny robots may soon arrive at a nuclear plant near you, and these bots might just save us from a horrible disaster.

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  • Netflix says it will soon start letting users share what movies they watch with all their Facebook friends. For now at least, that service will only be available in Canada and Latin America — not in the U.S. The reason: a 23-year-old law called the Video Privacy Protection Act.

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  • If you're a little annoyed with the way Washington works, join the club. But Americans Elect wants shake things up and use the Internet to transform how presidential elections work.

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