The problem with most ideas about how to make something "sharable" on the Web isn't that they're obviously wrong. It's that they're so obvious. ...
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Neurons joel.geerling via Wikimedia Commons It's 6.5 times bigger than the network Google premiered last year, which has learned to recognize YouTube cats. Last summer, in conjunction with Stanford researchers, Google[x], the R&D arm where ideas...
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Parakweet said Tuesday it secured $2 million in funding led by a group of investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal, Zappos and Powerset; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer and Eventbrite; David Jeske, former Director of Engineering...
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The first time you turn on your phone after installing iOS 7, you’ll feel like Charlie Bucket landing in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Those colors! Those icons! So much neon! You’ve fallen into a world of pure imagination, a place where everything...
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New Yorkers soon will start seeing strange kiosks popping up in parks and other public places. They should be welcome sights, though, since anyone can plug their phones into them for a quick battery refresh....
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Even as Apple sizzles in the Senate hot seat for alleged tax evasion and finds itself the object of a Justice Department investigation into price-fixing ebooks, the company still enjoys a vast reservoir of good faith with the American people
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A team of doctors at the Imperial College in London, England announced this week that a baby boy has been born through the use of a new in-vitro fertilization (IVF) technique that they hope will prove to be gentler and safer for women hoping to become...
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Healthy baby born to woman who was given naturally occurring hormone kisspeptin to stimulate egg productionThe first baby in the world to be born to a woman who was given a naturally occurring hormone to stimulate egg production instead of the usual...
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If things go smoothly, a Kobe-based private network will begin in vitro fertilization with ova from donors by yearend. Some legal problems are expected....
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The revelations of the recent NSA leaks are explosive, but Edward Snowden is not the first whistleblower to leak information to the public about government operations. Oxford-based project Free Speech Debate interviewed several former intelligence professionals...
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René Pérez, from the musical group Calle 13, and Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, gathered ideas and suggestions from Twitter users to write a song together that will go on Calle 13's next album.
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A series of bombs planted by militant nationalists in southwestern Pakistan have destroyed the 19th-century residence of the country's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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Later today the House will vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a GOP-sponsored bill that aims to ban abortion after 22 weeks. As painful as the ongoing Republican battle to restrict access to abortion is, at least it's creating multiple...
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is frequently accused of being a partisan hack, a conservative lackey serving only the interests of the Republican Party. His votes are often portrayed as products of political ideology rather than constitutional...
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By a surprising 7 to 2 majority, the Supreme Court on Monday struck down a bristly little ballot initiative that Arizona passed in 2004, requiring everyone who registers to vote to prove his or her citizenship. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority...
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Lebanon has long suffered with some of the slowest Internet speeds in the world, but a new crop of online entrepreneurs believes their country is primed for a tech start-up boom.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron said the United States was doing the right thing by meeting with Taliban representatives after the Afghan militants opened an office in Qatar.
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China's Li Na began her grass season with just six days left before the start of Wimbledon, with the sixth seed beating Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Eastbourne International on Tuesday.
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More output, produced faster may be great metrics for machines, but for homo sapiens, the most powerful metric is engagement. ...
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How a banner biotech drug made in Chinese hamster ovary cells is changing disease even as it treats it. An Object Lesson. ...
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Could his most abrasive release yet actually be a sweet fable about true love? ...
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The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission lists [PDF] reported Chinese UAV projects, and predicts that the USA’s own policies will give China the exporting opening they need. China may not be ready immediately, but note that the Saudis are...
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Scottsdale, Az.-based DPG Investments and its affliates provided $2.25 million as part of a $2.5 million equity round raised by KAJ Hospitality, a South Dakota outfit focused on hospitality management and investments. KAJ will use the capital to acquire...
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AT&T is bringing solar-powered recharging stations to the people. What could possibly be wrong with that? ...
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Today I want to talk to you about my fur baby. WARNING: EXTREME PUPPYNESS AHEAD.
I had wanted a dog for literally as long as I can remember, and my parents finally caved and agreed to get one when I became…
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Facebook, the world’s favorite social networking platform, is the ideal place to connect with potential clients. Having a Facebook page for your freelance business gives you the opportunity to engage with prospects, developing a relationship so that...
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After doing a Q&A and releasing more files, Snowden seems to have plenty more to give, and will peg future releases to news events. Cosmopolitan magazine asks Snowden what message he’d like to leak to his girlfriend. Seventy percent of America’s...
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At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt. Assets on the forms are reported in a range making it...
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Ben Fountain’s debut short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, was published in America eighteen years after he left his job at a Dallas real estate law firm to… Continue readingThe post Ben Fountain interview: Lies are an affront...
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This seems a bit wacky. MPAA boss Chris Dodd has been named the chairperson of the "advisory council" for "free speech week" in 2013. Now, I'm assuming that most people have no clue what "Free Speech Week" is, but it's supposed to be a "celebration"...
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by Logan Sachon This post is sponsored by Kia. The Megan Method — Overpay, Then Sell My first car was a wonderful, amazing, dark green faux-wood-interior-paneled convertible. I bought it outright from a lady in the neighborhood, and I used all my savings—$5,000....
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Have you been following the Naked With Cash series this year? Seven Consumerism Commentary readers are making their finances public, sharing the intimate details of their financial decisions and net worth. They’re putting it all out there, leaving...
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This week I was going to announce I was running for Congress. I was taking it very seriously and for the past three months this was the week I was planning on announcing. I had hired people to run the campaign. I had gotten great advice. I had studied...
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Saving Mothers, Giving Life was launched in June 2012 with the goal of supporting countries where women are dying at alarming rates during pregnancy and childbirth to aggressively reduce maternal mortality. This post, which reflects on the program on...
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AP Images/Don Ryan Kansas City is a little bit plainsy, and a little bit Southern, straddling the Missouri-Kansas border. It is an old city, especially compared to others west of the Mississippi, fueled in its early years by farming money and trade...
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Massachusetts gets its latest health report card, and it needs improvement.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The San Jose Sharks agreed to a contract extension with star center Logan Couture to keep him off the market next summer.
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Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 8, Episode 12 of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Orange County," titled "Chicks and Salsa."Hola, friends! Due to my technical difficulties, last week's recap did not get posted. So, before we launch into...
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For Spring ’14, the top-tier bespoke tailor Timothy Everest and legendary Japanese tattoo artist Horiyoshi III came together to create a capsule collection. It might seem the meeting of opposite ends of the spectrum, but tattoos, laughed Everest at...
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Filed under: Asia, NepalAP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first summit of Mount Everest, a feat that's been attempted by thousands of climbers since. Although we all understand ascending the world's highest peak is...
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