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Facebook couples pages: 4 disgusted responses

The social network's cutesy update collects the history of users in a relationship — drawing howls of protest from privacy advocates and individualists

 
Windows President Steven Sinofsky (left) laughs with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a 2009 presentation. Sinofsky has abruptly resigned after 23 years at the company.

The shocking departure of Microsoft's CEO-in-waiting: 4 talking points

Steve Sinofsky, who was quietly being groomed to take over the company, is out. And many tech insiders are still trying to pick their jaws up off the floor

 
Fetishize yourself: For around $265 the Omote 3D, which uses 3D-printing technology, will turn you into a wee action figure.

The 3D printing photo booth that turns you into an action figure

A simple strip of photos? So yesterday. A Japanese company is taking things to another level by turning posers into tiny figurines

 
After Obama's re-election Tuesday night, there was no shortage of internet memes. In this gif, Obama and Biden do their best Kanye and Jay-Z impersonations.

The week's best of the internet

The best memes, videos,  and gifs to emerge from the great digital playground — from Claire McCaskill's stylish daughters to the new Rebecca Black

 
In this post-election gif, President Obama looks rather smug.

The internet's 8 best Election Night creations

The funniest and most compelling images, memes, and gifs to emerge from the great digital playground — from an extra-sassy Obama to extra-dismayed GOPers

 
On Nov. 6, President Obama tweeted out this photo with the message "Four more years." It was retweeted more than 800,000 times.

Obama's victory tweet — and 9 more of history's most popular tweets

The president took to Twitter with a simple message — "Four more years" — that went on to become the most retweeted ever

 
A customer inspects the new iPhone 5 at an Apple Store in San Francisco on Sept. 21: Rival Android phones now represent 75 percent of the market.

4 signs the iPhone is no longer the smartphone king

Android is gobbling up the market and Apple loyalty isn't what it used to be — at least according to recent analyses

 
A serendipitous photo of the President inadvertently making a "sassy" face inspired its own meme this week.

The week's best of the internet

The 8 best memes, videos, and gifs to emerge from the great digital playground — from the kid driven to tears by the election to doctored images of Hurricane Sandy

 
Apple CEO Tim Cook fired two of the company's major players prompting some to think the Steve Jobs comparisons should end here.

The Apple shake-up: What it says about CEO Tim Cook

Cook purged two top executives at the company, his most emphatic decision yet to move beyond the shadow of Steve Jobs

 
Sleek and minimalist, the Venus yacht was a veritable obsession for Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs' mysterious iMac-controlled yacht

A year after his death, one of Jobs' secretive final projects, the Venus, comes to fruition

 
Amid the chaos caused by Hurricane Sandy, Google introduced the Nexus 4 Android smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet.

Everything you need to know about Google's new Nexus smartphone and tablet

The king of search unveils the latest in a line of products meant to take a bite out of Apple's dominant market share

 
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils the new Windows Phone 8 on Oct. 29.

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8: An iPhone killer?

Microsoft has long struggled to break into the smartphone market, but now, its new operating system is winning rave reviews

 
Researchers have developed a robot that learns from humans how to play ping-pong — then dominates on the table.

The robot that learns to beat you at ping-pong

Researchers have created a robotic arm that figures out how to return difficult shots just by competing against human opponents

 
This week, the internet provided a useless but completely addictive website devoted to bouncing cats.

The week's best of the internet

The 9 best memes, videos, gifs, and games to emerge from the great digital playground — from a Breaking Bad-Taylor Swift parody to strangely addictive bouncing cats

 
An Amazon employee sorts packages in Arizona: The online retailing giant's deep discounts may be problematic to its bottom line.

How long can Amazon go without making money?

The online retailer posts a loss for the third quarter, but investors are utterly unfazed by the company's consistently poor earnings

 
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