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Wikipedia might be down, but there are other options 01/17/2012 09:46pm • Nathan Hager, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Tough luck for lazy high school students looking for a quick reference for a term paper. Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference guide with more than 3.8 million articles in English alone, is dark Wednesday, joining dozens of other websites that have gone o Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Ovechkin: The Great 8 raps (VIDEO) 01/17/2012 04:53pm • WASHINGTON - A performance hat trick? He's well on his way. The Great 8 just added another feather to his triple threat cap. Alexander Ovechkin drops a verse on a new Russian rap, whose title loosely translates (with a little help from Google) to "Champion. Ali Bagautinov a clip of Sasha White." Va. county's school workers' online info exposed 01/15/2012 11:37am • FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - The Spotsylvania County school system's computer security is being audited after officials discovered that employees' personal information was accessible online for nearly two years. The Free Lance-Star (http://bit.ly/zoG1Xl ) reports that the security issue affected up to 4 Defeating Google's new web search 01/11/2012 11:26pm • WASHINGTON - Google is causing a stir with its decision to create custom tailored results for users of its search engine. Google's "search, plus your world" function includes photos and comments mined from their Google Plus social network. The move has sparked an outcry from privacy advocates Iowa caucus: Results in real-time 01/03/2012 08:16pm • The Republican Party of Iowa is providing Republican caucus results to Google, a sponsor of the Iowa caucus media center. Check here to view the results as they become available. Follow WTOP on Twitter. D.C. makes list of top cities to find a date 01/03/2012 06:36pm • WASHINGTON - Similar to real estate, it turns out location is hugely important when it comes to finding that special someone. And for those living the D.C. metro region, you're already ahead of the curve. The Daily Beast recently compiled a comprehensive list of the "Best Cities to Find a Date Site names Top 30 Google Doodles of 2011 01/02/2012 01:06pm • WASHINGTON - From Harry Houdini to Les Paul and Lucille Ball, the creative minds behind the Google search engine have doodled numerous tributes to iconic names and dates in 2011. Mashable has put together its list of the 30 best Google Doodles of the past year, which you can check out at this link The best commercials of 2011 12/31/2011 02:53pm • Nathan Hager, wtop.com WASHINGTON - DVR and you missed them! As we bid farewell to 2011, the marketing experts at AdWeek have compiled a list of the 10 Best Commercials of the old year. Several of them probably garnered a lot of eyeballs, since they debuted during the Super Bowl. Others, you'd Google announces 'iPad killer,' faces uphill fight 12/29/2011 11:28am • WASHINGTON -- Google threw down the gauntlet boldly earlier this week with an announcement that proves once again Apple is the team to beat. While speaking with an Italian newspaper, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the new tablet his company plans to roll out in 2012 is an "iPad killer Ugly Christmas sweaters: Are you in on the joke? 12/09/2011 07:48am • Kristi King, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Are you in on the joke? The growing holiday trend of wearing an ugly Christmas sweater? Old Aunt Martha from Wisconsin might be perfectly sincere with her holiday cheer as she dons colorful concoctions of yarn. But when your friends, who typically are dapper Hand-delivered steak and pick-up basketball games: Top 10 Twitter stories of 2011 12/06/2011 05:33pm • WASHINGTON - From the raid that killed bin Laden to a pick-up game of flag football, this year Twitter has been used to break pivotal moments in world history and keep pro basketball players entertained. With help from the monthly Twitter Stories, Mashable recently compiled the top 10 stories of New Eatery Worries GPS Is Leading Customers Astray 11/30/2011 12:34pm • A new restaurant in the far southeastern corner of Arlington is worried that its customers are having a hard time finding it due to outdated GPS data. Melody Tavern is located at 3650 S. Glebe Road, near Potomac Yard — but mapping software and GPS systems often interpret the address incorrec Google maps the indoors for Android phones 11/30/2011 07:56am • Evan Haning, wtop.com UNDATED - GPS has gone indoors. Google's new map feature will help Droid users find their way around airports, malls and big box stores. Google Maps 6.0 can't see through walls. It uses cellphone towers, WiFi hotspots and GPS with such precision it can tell if you're taking Lynn Street Sky Bridge to Be Torn Down 11/22/2011 10:32am • An aging sky bridge across Lynn Street in Rosslyn is set to be torn down. The sky bridge, located on the 1700 block of North Lynn Street, will be torn down as part of the CentralPlace development. Demolition permits were filed earlier this month, and are still going through the county approval pr Non-users of Facebook tracked by social network 11/16/2011 09:34am • Evan Haning, wtop.com UNDATED - As Facebook has grown, so has the amount of personal data it collects, including information about people who have not chosen to join the social network. For the first time, Facebook explained how it tracks both users and non-users in a series of phone and email exc