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Samsung Smart Home aims to control TVs, refrigerators through a single app

Samsung has launched an ambitious effort to build a home automation system managed by a smartphone app

BlackBerry sues Ryan Seacrest’s Typo over ‘iconic’ keyboard design

A copyright infringement lawsuit takes aim at another company's keyboard product

Thanks to the NSA, quantum computing may some day be in the cloud

The spy agency is spending $80M on basic research related to quantum computing

Surveillance court renews NSA phone records program

The FISA court approves the metadata collection program for the 36th time in seven years

Enterprise apps in 2014: What’s in store

What the industry's top application vendors are likely to do this year

Costs of NSA phone records collection program outweigh the benefits

The agency's metadata collection efforts haven't been key to thwarting terrorist attacks, researchers say

Lizard-like robot could save astronauts from dangerous spacewalks

European Space Agency, university work on robots that could work on spacecraft

DOJ will appeal judge’s ruling against NSA phone program

The decision of the D.C. judge conflicts with a ruling from a New York judge in a separate case

Facebook made of Teflon when it comes to privacy, analysts say

Social network sued for allegedly scanning users' private messages

CES Scorecard: the biggest misses of CES 2013