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The subscription-based streaming music service has just released a completely redesigned Android app that fixes all of the little annoyances.

Robotic vehicles, from Google to Mercedes, have arrived. So what form and purpose will these cars have when we finally let go of the wheel?

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

In an effort to claw its way back into the game, RIM has settled on a new strategy. Effective today until February 13, every Android developer who ports an Android application over to the BlackBerry ecosystem will receive a free PlayBook, according to a recent tweet sent by RIM VP of developer relations Alec Saunders.

Today Motorola issued a fail alert of epic proportions: From October to December 2011, 100 out of 6,200 refurbished Xooms sold from Woot.com may contain the previous owner's personal data.

The least suspenseful waiting game in Silicon Valley is now over, thank heavens. Facebook, which began as a decidedly private Harvard hangout, has begun the process of going absolutely, totally, unabashedly public. Can you put a price on friendship?

How will ARM-based Windows 8 tablets mitigate the heavy payloads of traditional desktop apps? A new report suggests desktop application support will be limited but still present, contradicting an earlier statement by Windows lead Steven Sinofsky.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Apple has moved past LG in the worldwide rankings of mobile-phone unit sales. According to IDC, Apple is now the world's third largest mobile-phone manufacturer, behind Nokia and Samsung.

Google unveiled a new security service for the Android Market today that aims to auto-scan uploaded Android applications to detect potentially malicious apps more quickly, ideally before users download them.

If Facebook is going to develop and diversify its revenue streams ? which it must ? Credits is the natural place to begin.

On Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken tentatively raised his gavel to close a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, saying, in his gravely voice, "I don't chair that much." An aide leaned forward to whisper in his ear. "The record will be held open for a week," Franken then said triumphantly, and brought down the hammer. He'd gotten the ritualistic words right. He had also opened a fired-up discussion about online privacy that has enormous implications for American companies.