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This photo provided by NVIDIA shows a 310-foot “crop circle” in a California barley field that mystified locals this week was explained Sunday Jan. 6, 2014: it was a publicity stunt by Nvidia Corp., a maker of chips for PCs and smartphones. The crop circle near Chualar, Calif., contained a stylized image of a computer chip and the number “192” in Braille. On Sunday, the company announced the Tegra K1, a new chip for tablets and smartphones that contains 192 computing “cores,” or mini-computers, for graphics applications. (AP Photo/NVIDIA)

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Colorado's Spencer Dinwiddie drives to the basket past Oregon State's Eric Moreland during an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Daily Camera, Jeremy Papasso) NO SALES

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Colorado's Dustin Thomas fights for a rebound with Oregon State's Eric Moreland during an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Daily Camera, Jeremy Papasso) NO SALES

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Colorado's Josh Scott takes a shot over Oregon State's Daniel Gomis during an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Daily Camera, Jeremy Papasso) NO SALES

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This Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 file photo shows Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in Los Angeles. Snapchat, the disappearing-message service, has been quiet following a security breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of millions of its users. Snapchat said Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 that it is assessing the situation, but did not have further comment. Earlier in the week, hackers reportedly published 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers on a website called snapchatdb.info, which has since been suspended. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Penny Trusty, 74, a retired software designer and grandmother of five, poses for a photo in her home in Rockville, Md., Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you’ll hear some dreary forecasts. Whether they foresee runaway technology or runaway government, rampant poverty or vanishing morality, a majority of Americans predict a future worse than today. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey say that the melting of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in Antarctica has slowed right down in the last few years. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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** FILE ** This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo shows Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, at the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite personal devices, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)