If you’re looking for a straight-forward, legal way enjoy Siri-like functionality on Android hardware — or any Apple gear other than the fanciest of iPhones — you’ll have to enlist a Siri copycat app. The latest of the bunch, released Monday, is called Evi, which we’ve been testing for the last 24 hours.



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When it launched last November, Amazon’s Kindle Fire was touted as the first tablet to seriously challenge Apple’s iPad. Since then, the iPad and Kindle Fire have seemingly been embroiled in a zero-sum war of tablet market dominance. But perhaps that’s not exactly what’s going on.



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With so many great, funny, scary, sexy and sinister fictional scientists on TV and in the movies, it’s hard to pick the best. But we did it anyway. Here is our list of favorites. We like our list, but we know you’ll let us know who we forgot and where we went wrong!



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Google has some advice for anyone who would like to black out their site to protest the SOPA/PIPA/OPEN legislation, while ensuring that doing so doesn?t harm their Google search rank or indexed content.



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A worm previously used to commit financial fraud is now stealing Facebook login credentials, compromising at least 45,000 Facebook accounts with the goals of transmitting malicious links to victims’ friends and gaining remote access to corporate networks.
The security company Seculert has been tracking the progress of Ramnit, a worm first discovered in April 2010, and …



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The net’s biggest names — including Google, Facebook, and Amazon — have caused a tectonic shift in the worldwide server market. These are the companies that need more servers than anyone else in the world, and they’re moving away from traditional server makers such as Dell and HP, embracing mystery server makers like Hyve, a company based in Fremont, California. These mystery companies can help them build servers for their particular needs.



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