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Wendy's says over 1,000 locations affected by credit card breach

Fast food chain Wendy's announced in February that is was looking into a possible security breach.

Google buys a backbone for pay TV services

Google is snapping up Anvato, a company with tech that's designed to make it easy for broadcasters to put live video online.

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes banned from owning a lab

Spoiler warning in case you don't want to know how the movie will probably end: the Wall Street Journal reports US regulators have devised to ban the owners and operators of Theranos from running a lab for two years.

Facebook says a 'glitch' briefly deleted Falcon Heights video

A Facebook Live video capturing the aftermath of a fatal police shooting briefly disappeared from Facebook after going viral on Wednesday night, and the social networking site has apologized, blaming the down time on a bug in the system. "We're very sorry that the video was temporarily inaccessible," a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch.

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060 delivers GTX 980 speeds for $249

If you haven't noticed by now, 2016 is shaping up to be a killer year for PC gaming hardware.

Australian police urge 'Pokémon Go' players to pay more attention

Zealous new Pokémon Go trainers around the world are out catching 'em all, but a police station in Australia is warning against actually walking into the station just to nab the items that could be lurking there. It may seem like advice that shouldn't need to be said, but apparently players around the Darwin Police Station in northern Australia needed just that warning, as the police station itself is marked as a Poké Stop in Pokémon Go itself, which provides items like Poké Balls to players to get near the area and spin the location's icon. Of course, you can do this without actually walking inside the location, and can even do it from a few feet away as you cruise by in a car or walk by it if possible, like most of the other landmarks in the game. The police station left a response on Facebook encouraging players to stay safe and pay attention: "For those budding Pokemon Trainers out there using Pokemon Go - whilst the Darwin Police Station may feature as a Pokestop, please be advised that you don't actually have to step inside in order to gain the pokeballs. It's also a good idea to look up, away from your phone and both ways before crossing the street.

The Spectre 13.3 is the most intriguing thing HP has made in years

It's been a long time since I've wanted to test a laptop this badly. The HP Spectre 13.3 isn't just the world's thinnest notebook; it's the most exciting device Hewlett-Packard has made in years.

China finished the world's largest single-aperture telescope

For the past 53 years, Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory has been the king of radio telescopes.

Juno has begun its tour of Jupiter after a five-year journey

Juno's five-year journey has come to an end, and soon, it will start taking measurements and capturing images of the largest planet in our solar system.

Solar road technology comes to Route 66

Solar Roadways' dreams of sunlight-gathering paths are one step closer to taking shape. Missouri's Department of Transportation is aiming to install a test version of the startup's solar road tiles in a sidewalk at the Historic Route 66 Welcome Center in Conway.

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