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Finding faces in Google Maps terrain
Using facial recognition software, a team has created a program that crawls Google Maps, seeking out faces hidden in the Earth's folds. Do you see what it ...
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Vint Cerf Social conventions have not kept up with technology
Speaking of Glass, Google's chief Internet evangelist predicted, "It may be we will have to experience some damage before we discover what the social conventions ...
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Never open the wrong bottle of wine with the Dacor WineStation
The Dacor Discovery DYWS4 WineStation stores, preserves and dispenses up to four bottles of wine at a time. After opening, wine stays good for up to 60 ...
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Better search finds its way into Android Chrome
(Credit: Google) Google has made searching in Chrome for Android a bit easier with an update Wednesday to the browser. The latest stable version ...
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Verizon partners with JLos VivaMovil to target Latinos
Verizon Wireless announces a partnership with a new mobile brand started by actress and singer Jennifer Lopez that will be geared toward Latino ...
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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain
Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global ...
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Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases
Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as June _ if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds over what evidence would demonstrate such gains.Minutes of the Fed's April 30-May 1 meeting released Wednesday show "a number" of members ...
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Basile to star at Inside the Design Studio
, multiple Orchid winner especially for restaurant design, will reveal his secrets "Inside the Design Studio," sponsored by the San Diego Architectural ...
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LRAD avoids proxy fight with big shareholder
Under terms of the settlement, LRAD agreed to nominate two independent directors proposed by Iroquois and a third director who was mutually agreed to by the company and ...
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Wal-Mart hires Hill Knowlton executive
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is naming Dan Bartlett, who had been president and CEO of the U.S. arm of global public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, as its new executive vice president of corporate ...
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Stocks fall on news Fed weighed cutting stimulus
In this Aug. 11, 2010 photo, specialist John Urbanowicz, left, talks with a colleague on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are opening Wednesday, May 22, 2013, slightly higher as investors watch for the latest moves from the Federal ...
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Glaxo US partnering to develop new antibiotics
LONDON - GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it's starting an unusual collaboration with the U.S. government to develop several antibiotics for both bioterrorism threats and bacterial infections resistant to current medicines.Antibiotic resistance will become a global crisis, experts predict, because most drug companies have cut investment in antibiotics. Instead, they're developing ...
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Pfizer plans offering to pare Zoetis stake
TRENTON, N.J. - Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. plans to try to sell its controlling stake in its former animal health business, Zoetis Inc., through a voluntary stock exchange with Pfizer shareholders.Pfizer, the world's second-largest drugmaker, said Wednesday that its shareholders will be able to trade their Pfizer holdings for Zoetis shares at a discount expected to be about 7 percent. The ...
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From Backup Quarterback To Super Bowl Contender Building The Colin Kaepernick Brand
Ten weeks into the 2012 NFL season, Colin Kaepernick's life changed. The San Francisco 49ers starting veteran quarterback, Alex Smith, left a game against the Saint Louis Rams with a concussion. 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh brought Kaepernick, who up until that point had served as a backup quarterback typically relied upon to run wildcat offense plays, in for Smith. And in a decision that ...
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P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup Gold Ends Down As Federal Reserve News Deemed Bearish
Comex gold futures prices ended the U.S. day session solidly lower in a volatile trading session Wednesday. Gold was first supported and then pressured by the latest news to come from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Comex June gold last traded down $17.40 at $1,360.30 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted down $14.30 at $1,362.25. July Comex silver last traded down $0.075 at $22.38 an ounce. The market ...
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Mondelez A Delicious Stock
(MDLZ) which represents a global snack food powerhouse with strong prospects for growth. With many of the world's favorite brands such as Nabisco, Oreo, Ritz, Cadbury, Trident, Dentyne and Tang, it's no surprise that Mondelez controls almost ten percent of worldwide snack revenue and a large portion of consumers pantry's. The company has 9 billion-dollar brands and another 52 ...
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The Top 5 Business Decisions Of All Time
, Verne Harnish explores those "black swan" decisions that brought great success at companies like Zappos, Intel, Tata, Toyota and many others. Below is Harnish's personal list of the greatest business decisions of all ...
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Sell Alert Get Rid Of Low Quality Muni Bonds
Detroit, Michigan Some people have nightmares about being chased by runaway trains, vicious animals or bad guys. Mine is daytime nightmare: Being chased by molten lava. The lava in this case is the red-hot viscous bad news still emanating from the municipal bond market. This daymare won't end for municipal bond investors until the lava solidifies. It won't end until the ...
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Vermont Enacts The Nations First Anti-Patent Trolling Law
State Seal of Vermont. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Efforts to crack down on patent trolling are escalating. Just a couple of years ago, Congress passed a major amendment of the Patent Act (the America Invents Act) with the hope that it would curb some abusive patent assertions. Some members of Congress aren't satisfied with the results of that amendment, so three different bills ...
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If Cloud Computing Is Here Then Where Is My Jet Pack
When I was a kid, I was enamored with the idea that I was going to get a jet pack. I thought that when I was old enough to go to work, I'd just tie on the ol' pack and blast myself over the highways and byways, landing deftly on the roof of my office. It didn't work out that way. Neither did the robot maid, the home video phone, or the car that was also a boat. The dream of ...
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Vine For Voice Why Half A Million Millennials Share Sound On Dubbler
You know where to go to spruce up your phone photos so you can share them with friends-Instagram. And for short edited videos, Twitter's Vine platform can help you channel ...
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The Hamptons Billionaire Lane Where Wall Streets Richest Retreat For The Summer
The Hamptons are awash with ritzy addresses, but perhaps no street boasts more billionaires than Southampton's Meadow Lane. The 5-mile-long road sports a private helipad that can rush residents to Manhattan in 20 minutes, but conveniences like that cost serious cash: The median sale price for a home here last year was $18 ...
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How Nathan Myhrvolds Modernist Cuisine Became the Worlds Most Influential -- and Profitable -- Cookbook
T he most unromantic dinner for two in the history of epic eating recently went down outside Seattle. The participants: me and Nathan Myhrvold, the legendary technologist who, armed with the tens of millions he earned helping Bill Gates popularize software at Microsoft, has reinvented himself as the world's most renowned food scientist. The setting: his sprawling laboratory, where he ...
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Ending High Cost Investing
Thanks to Jack Bogle, most of us understand the impact of fees on long-term investment returns. He was the one who pushed the notion that while 1% does not sound like a lot, when returns revert to the mean, about 8%, 1% is 12.5% of the total return. Personally, I think Wall Street is disingenuous about fees altogether. I mean we're talking about an industry that has no problem charging ...
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Apple vs. Congress The Tale of Innovate and Justify
are successful because they are guided by an "innovate or die" attitude. However, on Tuesday Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, forced Apple toward another mantra, "innovate and justify." Before and during the subcommittee's hearing on Apple's tax payments, majority staffers and Democratic senators suggested ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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