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Hardly Any Windows XP Users Have Upgraded Even Though The System Is Now...
Windows XP was released for sale in 2001 and was probably Microsoft's most popular, critically acclaimed operating system. It was simple to use and got everything right. Microsoft continued to sell XP...
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Meet The 25-Year-Old Woman Who's Using Apple Products To Save The Ocean
Emily Penn is an expedition leader and oceans advocate with extensive exploration experience in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. You might remember her from the intro video shown before Apple's WWDC...
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Google Is Making It Easier To Keep Your Email Messages Private (GOOG)
Google just announced that it's rolling out a new feature to help keep your email messages more private.The company has just released the code for a new tool that encrypts your emails until your...
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Dr. Dre Cashes In On Apple Winnings, Pays $40 Million For Tom Brady And...
Dr. Dre has purchased the Brentwood, California mansion belonging to Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Beats co-founder spent $40 million on the four-acre...
View ArticleSomebody Is Tweeting A Minute-By-Minute Account Of Tiananmen Square, And It's...
An expert on China is tweeting an absolutely gripping, minute-by-minute account of the bloody Tiananmen Square protests that erupted 25 years ago in the heart of Beijing.The pro-democracy protests, led...
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A Chinese Airline Might Start Letting Flyers Bid On Seat Upgrades
It's time to bid goodbye to discomfort while flying.Chinese airline Cathay Pacific is considering starting an online auction program where customers could place bids to upgrade their seats, according...
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7 Highlights From Malcolm Gladwell's Reddit 'Ask Me Anything'
Just about anything author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell has to say is interesting, even if you disagree with him.He went on Reddit on Monday for an Ask Me Anything session to answer users'...
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Three Startups Just Won An IBM Contest For Their Super Smart Apps (IBM)
If you think a talking smartphone app like Siri see-saws between useful and disappointing, IBM has news for you: Watson could be the cloud service you are looking for.IBM is investing $1 billion into...
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The 'Godfather Of Ecstasy' Dies At 88 — And His Career Is Full Of Strange...
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the inventor of more than 200 psychedelic compounds, died yesterday at 88.While Shulgin is best known for his work with the popular party drug Ecstasy (or MDMA), the...
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Apple's Photo Organizer Could Be The App We've Been Waiting For
Every existing photo storage option has major flaws.Boxes and albums of non-digital photos take up space, can decay or be destroyed, and are hard to update and share. Hard drives filled with photos can...
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Iran Is Making Demands In Nuclear Negotiations That The West Will Never Accept
Nuclear negotiations with Iran have stalled due to Iranian demands that the country be allowed to produce enough nuclear fuel to operate its Bushehr reactor, according to Reuters.The P5+1 — the five...
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America Is Blowing The Shale Revolution
We recently declared that the fracking debate was over. Despite clear evidence of the shale boom's local environmental effects, it's probably added about 50 basis points to GDP, shrunk the trade...
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16 Cloud Computing Startups That Could Be Acquired For $1 Billion Or More
Cloud computing is producing a huge crop of big and successful companies. There are already 23 public cloud companies trading at more than $1 billion in market cap, tracked by Bessemer Venture...
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A Tidal Wave Of Millennials Could Unlock The US Housing Market
Starting some time in 2006, the number of 18-34 year olds living with their parents started to rise. And it kept on climbing following the onset of the financial crisis. Only recently has it begun to...
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CHART: The iPad And Other Tablets Are Turning Out To Be Far More Important...
We all know PCs as those ubiquitous devices that first invaded the workplace and then our homes. They still dominate offices today. Tablets like the best-selling iPad from Apple feel more additive to...
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Senator's Campaign Says Reporter Who Wrote A Profile Of Him 'Should Be...
Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign was raging after the Atlantic’s Molly Ball published a story Tuesday that included an anecdote about the Republican senator having a memory lapse. Ball claimed...
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The Quest To Kill Cash: New Apps Are Finally Getting People To Abandon The ATM
Credit and debit cards have already gone a long way to getting people off of cash and checks.But there is one type of payment that still requires a trip to the ATM or a desperate hunt for the...
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Here's What Happens At The Pre-Work Dance Parties That Are Popular With NYC's...
You'll have to get up at the crack of dawn to take part in Silicon Alley's hottest new party.Daybreaker is an event created by General Assembly co-founder Matthew Brimer and Super Sprowtz founder and...
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15 Emerging Neurotechnologies That Will Change The World
Policy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are...
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Here's How A Candidate's Social Media Posts Led To Her Being Arrested For Fraud
Some of the evidence that led to former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth's arrest on fraud charges Wednesday came from her official campaign social media accounts. According to a complaint filed...
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