Shares of Groupon soared Wednesday afternoon after the company appeared to be righting the ship following the ouster of its CEO. FULL STORY

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Chances are, Marissa Mayer isn't reading this story. FULL STORY

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Fans of "Iron Man," take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing. FULL STORY

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The White House is reportedly considering hiring Twitter's Nicole Wong as part of its legal team to focus on privacy issues, though a final decision on the position has not yet been made. FULL STORY

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Technology has been changing the way we access, enjoy and discuss our entertainment. From smartphones and tablets with streaming movies to video game consoles offering TV shows alongside game play, consumers have increasingly become accustomed to their entertainment colliding and intertwining in new and interesting way… FULL STORY

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After Disney killed off Lucasfilm's video game division, there was a bit of uncertainty over what the media giant would do with its recently acquired Star Wars video game franchises. That was cleared up late Monday when Disney inked a deal with Electronic Arts. FULL STORY

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Microsoft believes nearly all major apps that can be found in Apple's iTunes store will also be available on Windows 8 by the fall, but it expects one glaring hole to remain. FULL STORY

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U.S. hospitals are wasting billions of dollars each year by having their staff use archaic communication technology like pagers. FULL STORY

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Windows 8 has been a financially successful but rocky transition for Microsoft. The company said Tuesday that it has no regrets about the major changes it made to Windows, but it is working to fix some of its most glaring mistakes. FULL STORY

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As the power and breadth of the Fortune 500 goes on display in this issue, one of its best-known companies, Apple, stands out for so many reasons they are barely countable. In the list itself, Apple is the star, unchallenged. Once a tag-along, it has mountain-climbed to No. 6, with $156.5 billion in revenues. Its 2012… FULL STORY

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Cray, the company often credited with building the world's first supercomputer, is shrinking its largest machine down into a more affordable package. FULL STORY

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For all its magnificent games and past successes, Nintendo has always been a little tone deaf when it comes to detecting and embracing new gaming trends. That brashness is finally catching up with the legendary video game company. FULL STORY

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Electronic Arts will be the exclusive provider of games based on the Star Wars series, Disney and the game developer announced jointly on Monday. FULL STORY

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3-D printers have officially gone mainstream. You can now get one at Staples for $1,300. FULL STORY

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The news shocked Wall Street. In early April, First Solar, America's leading maker of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, with $3 billion in 2012 revenues, surprised analysts with highly bullish guidance -- projecting that profits would come in as much as 28% higher than expected this year on healthy sales growth. First S… FULL STORY

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European regulators dealt Google a blow in the search giant's smartphone patent battle with Apple. FULL STORY

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After a year-long campaign by an activist shareholder, BMC Software finally announced Monday that it sold itself -- for $6.9 billion. FULL STORY

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Long ago, in the Forbidden City An Emperor sat upon a golden throne. He spent all day in meeting and committee And he was always busy, and alone. FULL STORY

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In 1999, Bill Gates famously wrote off Linux -- free, collaboratively written software -- as a threat to Windows only in the relatively tiny "student and hobbyist market." But by last year Microsoft itself had become one of the top 20 corporate contributors to Linux, writing code to make sure its products work well wit… FULL STORY

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Fastest-growing companies rank: No. 3 CEO: Robin Li Headquarters: Beijing Employees: 20,877 The business: Search engine, Chinese equivalent to Google FULL STORY

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Take a ride in any late-model luxury car and one thing is clear: Wireless gadgets are quickly becoming the star of the show. Cars have become rolling Wi-Fi hotspots, with access to Facebook and Google -- if still in limited form. By next year the automotive category will be one of the fastest-growing connected-device m… FULL STORY

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In a nondescript high-rise three miles outside Washington, D.C., a little-known firm called In-Q-Tel is investing U.S. tax dollars in startups that benefit the intelligence community. Since its founding in 1999, In-Q-Tel -- named after the gadget-toting James Bond character Q -- has backed 200 early-stage tech companie… FULL STORY

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If you drive down I-15 past State Highway 160 in Beaver, Utah, you'll see a 30-foot-tall silo with white letters that spell out "Blu." Next to it is a truck stop. It is no ordinary truck stop. The silo contains liquefied natural gas (LNG) chilled to -200° F and ready to fuel specially outfitted 18-wheelers. The facilit… FULL STORY

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Galileo, da Vinci, Jefferson -- that's the league of polymaths Nathan Myhrvold, 53, plays in. He had a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton at 23; he did postdoctoral work with Stephen Hawking; he made a fortune as the founder of Microsoft Research, the company's R&D labs; he's a paleontologist and master chef (… FULL STORY

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To make glass is to know failure. A glassmaker begins with powders of oxides, stirring them into a platinum crucible, then sticking the batch in an oven heated to 2,912° F, where the oxides liquefy into a molten state. He then removes the crucible, and the liquid cools and hardens into glass -- an amorphous solid. A te… FULL STORY

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Some people hire florists and caterers when planning their wedding. Former Google employee Brit Morin brought on a programmer to create a custom app. FULL STORY

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China's largest telecommunications firm says it will continue to sell its phones in the United States, even as national security concerns keep the company's equipment out of American telecom networks. FULL STORY

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The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector. FULL STORY

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In my bedroom there's an amazing wall-mounted hideaway ironing board. It even has an affixed light and timed electrical outlet for safety. The thing is absolutely brilliant. FULL STORY

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Each Fortune conference -- from Brainstorm Green, Brainstorm Tech, to the Most Powerful Women Summit, and the Global Forum -- yields fascinating conversations with the best and brightest minds in business. FULL STORY

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Your Instagram profile is about to have a lot more "you" in it. FULL STORY

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Here's a little-known quirk of cyber currency Bitcoin: There are coded messages hidden in the ledger that track bitcoin transactions. Most are innocuous, but this week, the discovery of a malicious transmission filled with porn links set the Bitcoin community abuzz. FULL STORY

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LinkedIn has blown Wall Street estimates out of the water consistently for nearly two years, but it looks like that trend could be coming to an end. FULL STORY

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Minimalist blogging platform Posterous drew its last breath earlier this week. FULL STORY

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The next generation of digital cameras could show us how bugs see the world. FULL STORY

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The HTC One is the other major Android phone to launch in 2013. FULL STORY

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Intel said Thursday that Brian Krzanich, currently the chipmaker's chief operating officer, will become the company's new CEO on May 16. FULL STORY

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Forecasting future technology has never been easy. In the 1950s, scientists and technologists envisaged that by now the world would be free from disease, traversed by flying cars, and fueled by minerals from distant planets. FULL STORY

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The idea of an amputee tinkling on piano keys with all the flair and grace of an able-handed person may seem like a futuristic fantasy. FULL STORY

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Facebook's sales jumped 38% in the first quarter, boosted by its growing mobile ad business. FULL STORY

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It's a mesmerizing, surreal scene. Eight tiny, unmanned aerial vehicles -- called quadrotors -- begin to rise from the ground in unison. FULL STORY

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Facebook finally decided to concentrate on mobile late last year, and its shares have recovered nicely from their post-IPO doldrums. To keep that momentum going, Facebook needs to prove that its mobile strategy is working. FULL STORY

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For many startup founders, the ultimate dream is a buyout offer from a big tech company. But after the money is in the bank, some founders regret selling. FULL STORY

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If your smartphone is attached to your hip, your blood flows like a Twitter feed and you're fairly certain your eyes permanently see through an Instagram filter, then maybe it's time to disconnect for a bit? FULL STORY

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