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John Foster, an archaeologist, talks about boats in that charming way all nautical lovers do - as if the vessels were supermodels.

When he talks about the Steamship Tahoe, he calls it simply The Queen.

The Queen sailed across Lake Tahoe, a breathtaking lake that straddles the border between California and Nevada, and is nestled high up in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. There are few places on earth as beautiful.

The steamer carried people, cargo and mail, and its passengers loved the ship's elegance, beauty and comfort.

But nothing can stop the march of technology, and so once a road around the lake was built in the 1930s, demand for the SS Tahoe all but disappeared. The company that owned it lost its contract to deliver the mail, and the once-proud ship fell into a sorry state of disrepair.

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The US government cannot force Microsoft to give authorities access to the firm's servers located in other countries, a court has ruled.

The decision is being seen as a precedent for protecting the privacy of cloud computing services.

Police in Missouri put out a warning that was both terrifying and bizarre: Armed robbers were believed to be targeting people hunting for Pokemon.

You read that right. Pokemon. The little monsters.

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Once upon a time, Snapchat was a simple app. You took a picture, you sent it to a friend, and it disappeared shortly after.

Nowadays, it's a messaging app, a video sharing app and a news app. A face-swapping, dog-masking revolution in online communications.

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Popular US food chain Wendy's has been hit by a massive cyber attack, the company has confirmed.

The company reported suspicious activity earlier this year, but the scale of the breach is far bigger than first anticipated.

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Facebook has launched an open-sourced communications platform, as part of the social network's continuing attempts to bring internet connectivity to underserved parts of the world.

Mark Zuckerberg shared images on his profile of a shoebox-sized device that contained the hardware needed to set up a local, wireless network.

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US authorities are investigating the first death potentially caused by self-driving technology.

The driver of a Tesla car died in Florida in May after colliding with a lorry.

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It's almost a year since Microsoft launched Windows 10 - which means two things.

Firstly, there's an Anniversary Update on the way. With that, some enhancements to Cortana and the web browser, Edge - as well as an attempt to reinvent the stylus.

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Microsoft is to offer "clearer options" for users upgrading - or not - to Windows 10.

The move comes following months of criticism that Windows 10 was being forced upon users using what has been described as a "nasty trick".

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On Thursday Twilio will float on the New York Stock Exchange.

You may not have heard of it, but you're likely to have used it. Twilio is a platform that enables developers to incorporate phone calls and text messages into their apps.