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Making a living taking digital snapshots of passers-byThere are at least four small companies that do nothing but take digital pictures of drivers on US-129 because of the popularity of the road.
Photos: Top 10 newly discovered speciesWhat do a killer jellyfish, shocking pink millipede, and a duckbill dinosaur have in common? They're all species that were discovered in the past year.
iPhone 3G queue forms in ManhattanBut the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.
Privacy advocates praise Google's new linkCompany's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventionsEvery year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the weekCNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more.
Ask.com closes Dictionary.com dealFourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
1 euro eBay baby goes homeParents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
VeriSign names interim CEOCompany's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.
Week in review: Microhoogle intrigueMicrosoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.
Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh ClassicTechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991.
At home with the Blue AngelsDuring a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close.
Photos: Up close with the Blue AngelsNews.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.
Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plantOil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.
EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStationAfter its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questionsNews.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updatesHe says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.
Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flawsFree tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities.
Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own onlineOn Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.
News.com Daily Podcast: Should YouTube users worry about privacy? How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.
Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defacedLoosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.
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