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SOPA blowback, and other tech predictions for 2013

Tech immigration, cybersecurity and Internet taxes will be the leading issues in the next Congress

Netflix restores streaming video after Christmas outages

The company said its online streaming was affected by issues in Web services provided by Amazon in the U.S.

Make the most of your shiny new tech gift

Apps, advice and more for devices running Android, iOS, Windows 8 and Mac OS X.

Craig Mundie takes new role at Microsoft, will retire in 2014

The change was announced in an internal memo from Steve Ballmer on Dec. 14, All Things D reports

Upcoming Salesforce.com release focuses on Chatter, analytics, Touch

Spring '13 will be in preview soon

US Congress may not have stomach for another SOPA

The massive online protests from a year ago have stuck in the minds of lawmakers

From Doomsday to James Bond to NASA’s last mainframe: The year in hot Layer 8 blog posts

Chrome 25 will disable ‘silently installed’ extensions

All Chrome extensions installed using offline methods will be disabled until the users decide otherwise, Google says

China set to surpass U.S. in R&D spending in 10 years

China's overall R&D is a little more than half that of U.S. and growing rapidly; U.S. is stalling

NRA takes aim at violent video games, culture

The NRA asks why the US media isn't as outraged at violence in pop culture as it is at gun ownership