Technology Top Stories from Associated Press (AP) show

Technology Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

Summary: The latest complete top ten Technology news stories from the Associated Press (AP) brought to you by NewsworthyAudio.com. Each story is a separate 'episode' and converted to audio using NewsworthyAudio.com's "Professional Text-to-Speech" technology. This Podcast is updated with the latest stories every hour. iTunes users should set 'Keep Last 10 episodes' in their Podcast Preferences. Visit www.NewsworthyAudio.com and register for a free trial of the NewsworthyAudio.com personal audio newspaper. NewsworthyAudio is a registered trademark of Newsworthy.

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 Zadzooks: Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Uprising review | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: :08

A massively popular first-person shooter franchise gives gamers a new downloadable pack of possibilities in Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Uprising (Activision and Treyarch, reviewed for Xbox 360, Rated Mature, 1,200 Microsoft Points or $15). Built for the lover of multiplayer firefights, the game extension provides four new maps and an intriguing zombie apocalypse set at a famous landmark.

 Photos force suspects' move, breaking bombing case | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 8:41

BOSTON (AP) , Moments after investigators went before television cameras to broadcast photos of two men in ball caps wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing, queries from viewers started cascading in , 300,000 hits a minute that overwhelmed the FBI's website.

 FBI issues photos of 2 suspects in Boston bombing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:44

BOSTON (AP) , Plucking a couple of faces in baseball caps out of a swarming crowd, the FBI zeroed in on two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and shared surveillance-camera images of them with the world Thursday in hopes the public will help hunt them down.

 Travel association exec to lead US gambling lobby | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:35

LAS VEGAS (AP) , The new head of the U.S. casino lobby is a 38-year-old with ties to the travel industry who says he will seek consensus on Internet gambling. The American Gaming Association nominated Geoff Freeman as its new president and CEO in Las Vegas Wednesday.

 New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental incest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:32

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) , You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin? In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk.

 Yahoo adds 2 more applications to mobile arsenal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:29

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Yahoo is taking the next step in its effort to make some of its most popular services more appealing and accessible to the growing audience connecting to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers.

 New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental incest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:43

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) , You meet someone, there's chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What's your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin? In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk.

 Drone battles over America a possibility in the future, Sen. Dianne Feinstein says | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:12

As the drone boom unfolds, one key lawmaker warns we could eventually see science-fiction style warfare over America. "I can envision drone fights in the air, drones cracking into each other," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, during a Senate subcommittee hearing on the funding for the Federal Aviation Administration.

 Nokia cuts losses but sales continue to plummet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:46

HELSINKI (AP) , Nokia continues to take a hammering in the smartphone market, with sales for the handset maker falling by 20 percent in the first three months of the year. Although the Finland-based company managed to reduce its first-quarter net loss to 272 million euros ($357 million) from a loss of 928 million euros a year earlier, that was mainly thanks to cost-cutting.

 Tuning in: Twitter launches music feature | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:25

NEW YORK (AP) , Twitter has launched a service for people to find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. Twitter said in a blog post that an app will be available for download from Apple's online store Thursday. A Web version is also expected Thursday. Twitter said the service will eventually be available on Android devices as well.

 Eyes on Netflix subscriptions in 1Q report | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:15

NEW YORK (AP) , Netflix Inc.'s earnings report for the first three months of 2013 will give the video subscription company a chance to show whether its large spending on original content is paying off.

 Ahead of the Bell: Focus on PCs in Microsoft's 3Q | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:48

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) , Microsoft will release its latest quarterly financial results Thursday amid a drastic decline in sales of personal computers, most of which run the company's Windows operating system. The results for the first three months of 2013 are due out after the stock market closes.

 AP Interview: Israel's Olmert begins tech venture | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:18

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) , Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joined forces Thursday with a leading Kazakh industrialist and an Israeli entrepreneur to launch a new high-tech venture. In an...

 Westboro Baptist Church's Facebook page hit by Anonymous hackers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:22

Hackers from the group Anonymous have claimed responsibility for an attack on Westboro Baptist Church's Facebook page as retribution for the group's call to picket and protest funerals for the Boston bombing victims.

 Earnings Preview: Google's 1Q hinges on ad market | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:05

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Google' first-quarter earnings report, which arrives after the market closes Thursday, is likely to reveal how effectively the company is managing its dominance of the Internet search market as it expands into the mobile device market.

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