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“Until now, scientists have inferred the presence of planets mainly by detecting an unseen world's gravitational tug on its host star or waiting for the planet to transit in front of its star and then detecting a dip in the source...

“ The Secret Service is tasked with protecting the President of the United States from assailants; and given that President-elect Obama has already been the target of assassination plots they may have their work cut out after January. But they source...

“yo, am i the only one? I mean, I'm all grateful for the include everyone nature of his campaign but now, really, now I just want to see it go all hiphop. For me change = equals less white people source...

“Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not source...

“ People ask me, "How can I get our employees to be passionate about the company?" Wrong question. Passion for our employer, manager, current job? Irrelevant. Passion for our profession and the kind of work we do? Crucial. If I more...

“The other day when I was trolling the waters of Hacker News, I stumbled upon an article from the Wall Street Journal entitled The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go to Work. The article bemoaned the sense of entitlement that those entering the source...

“ Since starting a social media strategy series, I’ve been working diligently on understanding what goes into the process. I’m building a framework that, when completed, should prove fairly useful. Along the way, I’ll share some of what I’m learning, more...

“The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost more...

“I've emailed Mr. Ciarcia asking him to release the book under free licence, i put a link to this photo. I found many copies around the web: Amazon: 13 copies, starts from $64. eBay: 4 copies, starts from $69. Barnes source...

“Today's S3 outage has disrupted a lot of major web sites today including Twitter and SmugMug, both of which rely on S3 to host photos and/or icons.  The service is coming back online now, but it's been down for almost more...

“Jean-Marie Huillot wants to create “a Wikipedia of pictures,” a Photopedia, if you will. The former CTO of NeXT and Apple’s Applications Division launched Fotonauts today at TechCrunch50. Fotonauts helps photographers organize, upload, synchronize, and share their photos. But it source...

“ When I first wrote about Little Miss Matched about five years ago, they were an obscure little sock company, selling funky socks to fashionable girls.”

“ We just received photos of the highest speed crash ever involving a Tesla Roadster. Wrecked Exotics Update Alert Don't forget to Subscribe to our FREE newsletter so you never miss out on any spectacular exotic car wrecks Enter Email source...

“Dissident Yahoo shareholder Carl Icahn and Microsoft have been talking to each other (as has everyone else involved in a possible Yahoo deal, including Yahoo and AOL over the weekend). In a letter to shareholders, reproduced below, Icahn notes that more...