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| | | | |  The grudge match between Netflix network provider Level 3 and Comcast over access to the latter's subscribers has faded into the background, but Level 3 has other battles to fight. Among the front burner issues: special access deals with Verizon and AT&T that Level 3 says amount to "lock up" contracts, forcing the firm to buy up to 100 percent of the high speed interconnection it purchased the previous year in order to receive "rack rate" discounts. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Brains of newborn human babies and Neanderthals, who became extinct about 28,000 years ago, were about the same size and appear almost identical at first. But after birth and particularly during the first year of life the differences in development are stark, according to Phillipp Gunz of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  SALT LAKE CITY — Disgruntled conservatives planted the seeds for Sen. Robert Bennett's defeat long before delegates at the Utah Republican Convention made it official two years ago. Now, some of them hope to replicate their success against six-term Sen. Orrin Hatch Thursday in Utah's Republican caucuses. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Most are from classic films, but it doesn't excuse the crazy. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Dark matter not only had a role to play in fueling early stars, it may have created "dark stars" so massive that they went on to spawn supermassive black holes found at the cores of the 500 billion galaxies estimated to populate the universe. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The movie-making business can be a lucrative industry. Money flows in from producers, theater-goers, advertisers, dvd/digital sales, and merchandising. An often overlooked source of money for the film industry, however, are state governments. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Apple confirms that pre-order stock of new iPad sold out, says demand is 'off the charts' | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Steven Pearlstein has an interesting piece here. It's nominally about the the ebook market and the current Justice Department (and EU if you like) probe into it. Should publishers be forced to use the wholesaling model or may they use the agency one: or is that latter too likely to [...] | | | | | |
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| | | | | | When confronted with a doomsday scenario where mainstream online file-sharing becomes a thing of the past, it's not uncommon for people to refer to days gone by, when files were swapped freely offline using discs and other mediums. Now, an interesting and compact system can deliver the [g]olden days of data swapping with a modern twist, by turning any open space into a wireless and anonymous file-sharing system at a rock-bottom price. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Despite the fact it violates the Constitution, conservatives across the country keep proposing bills to test poor people seeking government help for drugs. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  March 11, 2012 marks the one year anniversary of disaster and devastation in Fukushima, Japan. As the world looked on in horror, a massive 9.0 earthquake and 30 to 50 foot tsunami killed tens of thousands of people in Japan and caused the worst nuclear accident the world has seen since Chernobyl. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  My husband's birthday was the day after Valentine's Day, so celebrating is a double whammy. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The Drug Enforcement Administration's new regional chief in Denver, Barbra Roach, wasted no time in offending Colorado. Claiming that marijuana has "no known medical value," she also said that she will find a place to live that does not allow medical marijuana businesses. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  We,re baaack! | | | | | |
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| | | | |  It is shaping up to be a critical year for mobile tech. If you're tired of the endless iOS versus Android market share reports, take heart: There are new issues, and new challengers, making 2012's mobile landscape more complex and more important than ever before. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  After Pure Detroit opened its first of three stores on Thanksgiving Day in 1998, the company built momentum with a website (www.puredetroit.com) featuring branded clothing and merchandise; proceeds benefit Detroit-area charities. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Now I know why Sean Hannity has been so hateful on Fox News all week. He's been caught in the maelstrom along with his buddies Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest. Via The Daily Beast: Premiere Networks, which distributes … | | | | | |
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| | | | |  OK, so you're never gonna believe this, but Mojang's Scrolls and Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls? Sort of different! | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A Southern California woman says doctors predicted she would give birth to a big baby boy, but nobody was prepared for just how big. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Our cat, Tifa, is a little "species confused" :) She plays "fetch", pants like a dog, and wags her tail! she only pants if she's running or tiring herself ou... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan's northeast and set off the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter century, many Japanese spent Sunday solemnly mourning the tragedy, while others joined antinuclear rallies. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Great news, America! Some of the dumbest people in the country are leading your nation, according to Speaker of the House John Boehner. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  We have heard a lot from conservatives about the first amendment, most recently in defense of Rush Limbaugh, but what the right has been engaging in isn't free speech. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Lifting a red gas canister before the cameras, a girl named Shannon demonstrates her claimed addiction of drinking gasoline for TLC'S television program My Strange Addiction. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The fish and pterosaur likely drown in the noxious ancient seas. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Remember the old Superman musical? No? Well here's three minutes of highlights from it to blow your mind. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  When confronted with a doomsday scenario where mainstream online file-sharing becomes a thing of the past, it's not uncommon for people to refer to days gone by, when files were swapped freely offline using discs and other mediums. Now, an interesting and compact system can deliver the [g]olden days of data swapping with a modern twist, by turning any open space into a wireless and anonymous file-sharing system at a rock-bottom price. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Police in Kansas City are investigating a possible hate crime after a 13-year-old boy was doused in gasoline and set on fire. According to Allen Goin's mother, the attack occurred just as her son was getting home from school. She said, "They rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door open…one [...] | | | | | |
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| | | | |  If you're looking at compact family sedans for the first time, and didn't expect to find a Chevrolet or a Hyundai among TheCarConnection's top choices, you're in for a surprise. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  They say the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season really starts in Gainesville, FL. If qualifying results for the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom Gatornationals at Auto-Plus Raceway are an indication, maybe yes and maybe no. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she saw it coming, even before the public scolding last weekend at Alaska's Iditarod dog sled race. Siding with Republican leaders on a contentious contraceptives vote was a mistake. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Pre-order boxes for Donkey Kong 3D have begun to appear at retailers. Is DK headed to 3DS? | | | | | |
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| | | | |  New segment featuring Lebron before his junior year of high school! This was shown around 2006 before an Indiana Pacers/Cavaliers game. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The government has withheld for years the actual facts surrounding the deaths of two of the six completed Guantanamo "suicides" to date. For instance, they hid the fact that one of the detainees was supposedly found hanged with his hands tied behind his back. Another detainee supposedly used an underwear elastic band (or "ligature") to strangle himself -- except..... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The final open test for the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series season is complete at Sebring International Raceway, where teams utilized the 1.67-mile short course on the back of the bumpy airport/road circuit. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The Korean entrepreneurs behind Between have a charming idea: Let couples create one-on-one social networks for purely private sharing. With the app, from South Korea-based VCNC, two people can connect with each another to share private photos and secret messages. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Toyota might be expanding its Prius line of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars, but it hasn't forgotten about hydrogen fuel cell technology. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | American Express is launching a new partnership with Twitter. The basic message is that they are leading the way on social media among big companies. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | There is a lot of luck involved in a presidency; it wasn't because of Jimmy Carter's personal incompetence that the 1980 Operation Eagle Claw helicopter mission to rescue the hostages in Iran failed. Similarly, it's not mainly President Obama's fault that the economic recovery is so weak — but he is hardly the one to make this argument after blaming President Bush for the 2008 financial crisis. Presidential decisions aren't always at the core of everything. Nevertheless, the comparisons of Obama to Carter have something to them besides the dull gray feeling of each presidency, the | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Barclays Capital's Anthony DiClemente has an interesting theory about Siri and its effect on Google's mobile search revenue. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Celebrating the birthday and the extraordinary tale of Ralph Baer, a great man with a big idea. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | 15 years ago, on March 9, 1997, the hip-hop community suffered an insufferable loss, with the death of the Notorious B.I.G. The Brooklyn-bred rapper, who got his start with features alongside Mary J. Blige and Super Cat, eventually established a legacy as one of the greatest rappers of all time. 15 years after his death, his contributions to hip-hop are still not forgotten. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  So we still haven't seen perfectly rendered hide nor immaculately shaded hair of Unreal Engine 4 (GDC showings were apparently behind-closed-doors business-only affairs), but its biggest 800 lb graphics engine gorilla rival hasn't been shy about strutting its stuff. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Touched an iPad lately? What about a car navigation system? What about a Windows Phone? To be honest, most modern touchscreens are fairly responsive. It's not often that a high-quality device with a touch panel these days suffers from notable lag. Some of the old resistive panels could use some gusto, but the iPhone for example seems adequately... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Mass Effect fans remember the scene well. It is the opening moments of Mass Effect 2 and the Collectors have zeroed in on the Normandy and its crew, unleashing a horrific assault on the ship. People scramble to escape, and our hero Shepard works to get everyone off of the ship in one piece, finally getting Joker, the final crew member, into an escape pod. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  You might notice a sudden surge of inexplicable tweets from the digerati over the next few days, as the hippest kids in hipsterdom descend upon Austin, Texas for the annual nerd-fest known as South by Southwest, SXSW, or just "South-By" if you're really cool. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Under sustained assault from politicians and pro-privatization billionaires, struggling with budget cuts and layoffs, and trying to teach increasing numbers of children who come to school hungry, American teachers are, unsurprisingly, growing demoralized. MetLife's Survey of the American Teacher, conducted last fall by Harris Interactive and including telephone interviews with 1,001 public school teachers, 1,086 parents of public school students, and 947 public school students, found that teacher satisfaction is at its lowest point since 1989, with just 44 percent reporting themselves to be ve | | | | | |
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| | | | |  As it turns out in the animal kingdom, for one gender, sex is the only reason they're alive; for the other, it's a terrifying, painful nightmare. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  In a major intervention, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made clear he "strongly supports" gay marriage and disagrees with Pope Benedict XVI on the issue. | | | | | |
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