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2 freight trains collide injuring 7 report
Emergency responders view the damage from an overpass that collapsed Saturday after two freight trains collided at a rail intersection. The collision injured seven people ignited a fire and triggered the collapse of the overpass they were passing under dispatcher ...
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Apple 1 breaks auction record goes for $671400
One of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for ...
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Protesters march against Monsanto in 250 cities
LOS ANGELES -- Protests against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries."March Against Monsanto" organizers say they're calling attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the companies that produce it. Protests are planned in more than 250 cities Saturday.Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds ...
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Google Glasss 1 Fan
TED talk and interview in March, Google co-founder Sergey Brin described a motivation for the new product. 'We questioned whether you should be walking around looking down' at a smartphone, he said. Instead, the company's designers asked, 'Can we make something that frees your hands' and 'frees your eyes?'" Until now, the debate pretty much has focused on ...
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Microsoft knuckles under yanks YouTube app for Windows Phone
Computerworld - Microsoft has bowed to pressure from Google and pulled the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store that earlier this month triggered a cease-and-desist letter from the search giant. The two companies will instead collaborate on a YouTube app that abides by the Google-owned video site's terms of service. "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new ...
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How CEOs Can Beat The Clock 5 Tips From HPs Meg Whitman
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) When you're running a company like Hewlett-Packard, with $120 billion in revenue and operations in more than 100 countries, there's never enough time to get everything accomplished. But HP's chief executive officer, Meg Whitman, has developed a wide range of ways to beat the clock. Having also run eBay in the late 1990s, when it was a tiny, ...
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The Digital Health Dialogue--Crafting Language And Visuals That Your Innovation Deserves
Talk about arthritis with most people my age and you'll get little or no traction. It's usually 'not our disease'. But change the dialogue from arthritis to bone health and everything changes. Bone health is relevant and important. And you get the response that marketers long to hear: TELL ME MORE! It works on the clinical side too. Some of you might remember the term ...
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Apples Jony Ive To Dump Skeuomorphic Design In iOS 7
This isn't a great surprise to be honest. The gossip coming out of Cupertino has for years been saying that Jony Ive really doesn't like skeuomorphic design: whatever the opinions ...
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10 Ways To Get Ready For Summer Road Trips
Mapquest and Google Maps make it look so easy. In reality, traffic, construction and personal considerations mean you have to back extra time into any itinerary. Be honest: how much can you actually stand to be behind the wheel each day? For many people, eight hours is plenty. Others prefer to grit their teeth and drive straight through. Remember, the summer sun is bright and hot, which can ...
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Apple Loop Macs Made In Texas iOS 7 Goes Black And White Microsoft Mocks Siri
Washington , D.C. this week to address a bi-partisan Senate subcommittee that criticized the company for using tax loopholes and keeping the majority of its cash overseas to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Sen. Carl Levin and Sen. John McCain had harsh words for Apple in their opening statements and in the report assembled by the committee's staff detailing why Cook and co. ...
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Friday Box Office Furious 6 Earns $39m Hangover 3 Nabs $14.5m Epic Grabs $9m
in the film's credits) opened on Friday with a massive $39 million, including $6.5 million in advance-night screenings. That tops the $3.6 million midnight haul and $34 million opening Friday ...
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White House Agrees DOMA Should Be Repealed But Dianne Feinstein Not A Traitor
WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) listens during a news conference on gay marriage on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. Feinstein and sixteen other Democrats introduced a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Given how excited people get about taxes, it is surprising ...
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Googles Excellent Plan To Bring Wireless Internet To Developing Countries
is working on various technologies to bring wireless internet access to a number of developing countries. This is an absolutely excellent plan and one that we should be applauding. But not necessarily for what it will do to Google itself: rather, for what it will do to those developing ...
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Meet the new champ of desktop speakers Adam Audio F5
ARTist 3 , took me by surprise last year. That little speaker is still in the line, but when I learned Adam just introduced a less expensive, but slightly larger desktop ...
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Sony Microsoft or Nintendo Were In A Console Rut
week's Xbox One announcement . The "best" part of the hour long presentation was near the beginning, when it was demonstrated that the Xbox could flip seamlessly between television and the console with a simple voice or gesture command. The audience cheered as the screen flipped forward between a game and TV, and it did feel vaguely futuristic. But when you stop and think about ...
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Relax Your Memorial Day Fashion Guide Is Here
Here at Style Offline I will offer occasional investment advice (this is Forbes, after all!) though I'll focus on fashion, not funds or finance. In that vein, I've upgraded skinny white jeans to a "strong buy". It's all about Memorial Day You are likely looking forward to relaxing over the long weekend and perhaps you have plans with colleagues to get together once ...
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Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG Civilians shouldn’t salute
Mercedes-Benz-s G63 AMG is a squared-off brute that's just the ticket for expeditions or war zones, but it leaves a lot to be desired on normal highways, says Dan ...
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Star Trek II producer talks Ceti Eel J.J. Abrams and more
Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real ...
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Who Owns Organic Brands And Why You Should Care
organic brands lining the shelves of your local supermarket or natural foods store are no longer independently owned. Popular brands, like Boca Burgers (owned by Mondelez, formerly known as Kraft) or Kashi (owned by Kellogg) were actually acquired years ago (both in 2000). Now other seemingly more local or small scale brands like Peet's Coffee (now owned ...
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Fun Facts For Roadtrip Season Why Were Using Less Gasoline Than Ever
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer driving season. It's the weekend of the Indianapolis 500, and -- if you happen to be in the jet set -- of the running of Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix. There's no better time to take measure of the state of America's love affair with the automobile. And no better way to celebrate that with a ...
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Creation Science Hall Of Fame Granted 501 Status
The Creation of Adam (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The adventures of Kent Hovind, a/k/a Doctor Dino, in Tax Court and other parts of the legal system have gotten me involved in following developments in Creation Science. Tax bloggers have all been breathlessly following the saga of the IRS Cincinnati gang that couldn't sort straight and the topic of who else the IRS might be picking on has ...
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On Memorial Day Remembering The Athletes Who Died Fighting For Our Country
Pat Tillman, the former safety for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals who enlisted with the Army Rangers after 9/11, may be the most famous professional athlete who died while fighting for the United States in a war. But there have been a handful of others. Below, their ...
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Minneapolis Housing Supply and Demand Hits Magic Numbers
When houisng supply demand seems magical ';With homes selling in half the time it took to sell a year ago, buyers must be both decisive and prudent. Advice with contract terms and negotiations is where the expertise of a Realtor shines for both buyers and sellers.'; ~ NAR President Gary ...
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NewsWatch Can Marissa Mayer leave those crazy kids alone
How should Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, a CEO in her late thirties, manage a millennial like Adam Karp, the idealistic founder of Tumblr? Very carefully, writes John ...
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Beware the coming of the Google Glass photographer
Grovo offer a glimpse into a horrifying future. An obnoxious, photo-obsessed Glass owner gets all up in everyone's grill to record everything with many, many blinks of the eye. I'd love to say this is all just hyperbole for the sake of getting a laugh, but then I think of the guy shouting at a person on speakerphone in the library, or the number of phone conversations had by people ...
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