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President Obama should pardon Edward Snowden

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U.S. asks foreign travelers to voluntarily disclose social media profiles

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Amazon starts flexing muscle in new space: Air cargo

T-Mobile’s ‘free’ streaming music service blocked in Netherlands over net neutrality concerns

Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine

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Mozilla will support Firefox for Windows XP and Vista until at least September 2017

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