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Google Begins Launching Internet-beaming Balloons
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet...

NSA Scandal: Tech Titans Jockey to Be the Most Transparent of All
Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo are waging an aggressive campaign to demonstrate that they're not government stooges
Still More Noise Than Signal, As U.S. Spies Promise More Transparency
If you want more detail on the various National Security Agency surveillance programs there's plenty out there, but clarity from the government is in short...
You Probably Agreed to NSA Snooping When You Accepted That Website’s Terms of Service
Maybe we shouldn't be so shocked about PRISM, considering we grant companies like Facebook, Google and Apple incredible leverage to hand over our data to...
Patient Zero: The Battle for Music Exclusives Heats Up
The article below was originally published at Evolver.fm. Before a piece of music is everywhere, it is nowhere. At one magical point in between, new music...
Photo Essays

LIFE in 2012: The Year in 12 Galleries
What do the Empire State Building, Albert Einstein, Hillary Clinton, Woody Guthrie and druggy Japanese teenagers have in common? Well … nothing, really. Or...

Gang of New York: The Reapers, 1972
Forty years ago this week, LIFE magazine published an intimate and, for the time, remarkably even-handed article on the mounting problems associated with street...
Time.com Specials

The 13 Funniest Celebrity First Tweets
When you’re as famous as Hillary Clinton, it’s a safe bet that your first tweet will be dissected ad nauseum by every man, woman, and child on the Internet...

The 19 Best Tweets about Lance Armstrong’s Oprah Interview
The first part of the disgraced cyclist’s confessional interview aired last night on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the internet couldn’t believe it’s ears. Here...


