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  • Coming soon to your Internet browsing experience: .beer, .love and .app. Companies have submitted applications for more than 1,400 new top-level domain names. Those are the suffixes that come at the end of a web address, where we have .com and .org now. How will that change your Internet browsing experience? Plus, impressing your friends by buying tastemaker stock.

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  • Anonymous has risen from an obscure collection of pranksters to arguably the most powerful and mysterious computer hacking group operating today. A new book examines the hacking collective, where it came from and where it’s going. Turns out there’s a lot of e-drama and infighting in the group, and the culture is akin to outlaw cowboys in the Wild Wild West. Still, the decentralization gives them a lot of power. Plus, debating pros and cons of owning an original Apple computer.

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  • If you have an unlimited data plan for your phone through Verizon, you should know that Verizon is trying to put a stop to that. The company announced a plan aimed at families who have multiple phones and tablets connected to data networks. All the calls and text messages you want for up to 10 devices, but limited use of the data network. And as of June 28th, customers who want new phones will have to either go to a limited plan or pay the subsidy that Verizon normally pays, meaning a new iPhone could start at $649.

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  • Facebook has grown just 5 percent in the last year in terms of unique visitors, according to new research. That’s way down from previous years. To make up for the revenue and profit, expect the social giant to become more commercial — more ads, better ads, and perhaps a way for users to make money as well. Plus, the Robot Roundup: Robots for jogging/chasing, robots imitating cockroaches, and robots following you on Twitter.

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  • Apple kicks off its weeklong developers conference today. And when Apple holds an event, the rumor mill heats up. New versions of the Mac computer are said to be on the way. Probably won’t see a new iPhone, but many think Apple will have a new OS, an operating system, for one of its products. Also, the Federal Elections Commission may approve a plan today to allow political donations via text message, so candidates could be asking for your text donations before Election Day.

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  • Hurricane season is right around the corner and the Federal Communications Commission is studying a plan to deploy emergency phone equipment in the air. Using drone planes, weather balloons and blimps, the FCC wants to effectively create floating cell phone towers. That way people could call to get rescued, call to get help, aid workers could coordinate efforts. We look at the possibilities and the challenges.

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  • LinkedIn is a popular site for people looking to make contacts, find a new job, or, apparently, steal millions of passwords. Over six million user passwords may have been stolen from the social networking site in a recent hack. If you don’t share password across websites, you’ll probably be fine — but most people use the same password for several sites because remembering a different one for each site is a pain in the neck, and those people need to change their password methods now.

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  • A recent estimate says 30,000 electronic surveillance orders are issued each year in federal courts. And unless the orders lead to actual charges, the person being watched doesn’t know. You might think, well, I’m no criminal, they’re not watching me — but not so fast. We take a look at the legality of the whole situation. Plus, another edition of Tech Report Theater.

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  • Big companies are showing off new technologies that go far beyond games at the annual E3 video game trade show this week in Los Angeles. That’s where Microsoft announced Smart Glass, an app that takes secondary content from your Xbox experience and gives you a kind of second screen into it. The Xbox, PlayStation and Wii are transforming from game player to home entertainment hub. Meanwhile, the games themselves want to turn gamers into subscribers.

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