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What can the NSA do with phone and Internet data?

Global Politics

The NSA is tracking phone and Internet data on American citizens and has been for years. It’s estimated that one in seven NSA investigations utilize information from top PRISM, their top-secret Internet data tracking program. What does the government want with these massive stores of data?

Austin prepares to welcome second installation of Google’s Fiber project

Environment

VIDEO: Google’s goggles? Search giant unveils Project Glass effort to mainstream augmented reality

Environment

Iranian hacker dupes Google, activists worried

Environment

Google and GoDaddy go to Washington

Environment

Internet addiction and depression

Health & Medicine

A new study from the University of Leeds in England finds links between excessive internet use and depression.

Europe’s problem with Google and privacy

Global Politics

While the United States focused on Facebook’s byzantine privacy policies, Europe stewed over Google Street View’s capture of people’s private data.

Google mapping goes underwater

Environment

Google Ocean lets users explore the underwater terrain, and view articles and videos about marine science.

Making Google forget

Business, Economics and Jobs

Personal information released on the internet can be nearly impossible to erase. Some people are trying to force Google and Facebook to forget.

This is your brain on Google

Environment

Research shows doing online searches can actually increase the level of activity in your brain.