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United Airlines Changes Frequent Flier Program Adds Dollars Spent To Miles
United just announced it is joining Delta in adding spending minimums to its elite frequent flier program in addition to mileage. Photo: Wikipedia Earlier this ...
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NRG Moves Into Automobiles
NRG Energy , the largest competitive energy provider in the U.S., may soon be giving Winnebago a run for its money, but I wouldn't hold your breath. NRG rolled out a new disaster-relief package called "Power2Serve" earlier today at a press conference. The spinal cord of the new service is a truck and trailer combination designed to provide power and other basic services during a ...
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Digital Health Meets Moneyball Biomarkers And The Quantified Athlete
Most of us have heard about the quantified self-the personification of the digital health revolution. The quantification of life seems an inevitable manifestation of this movement. These 'data expressions of life' can't be far off. And I can imagine a day when a potential date or even spouse will need to 'quantify' as terms of the relationship. But one area really seems ...
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Facebook experiences apparent outage
Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent "down" answers this evening when they checked on Facebook's status. While the mobile version of Facebook was available to smartphone ...
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Equities Provide Stress Test For The Federal Reserve
Good Afternoon,When I said "up week" in yesterday's blog, I wasn't thinking it could be this big. But, then again, we do have the Fed tomorrow. What does the market like to do ahead of the Fed? It tests it. Remember all of the "stress tests"? Well, the Fed has passed every one. Will they disappoint this time? I doubt it. So there should be some type of accomadative ...
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MRI reveals kids with autism may find human voices irritating
Using MRI to measure brain activity, researchers at Stanford find that kids with autism have a weaker connection between language and reward centers than kids without ...
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Statuesque San Diego County
San Diego is home to some wonderful examples of public art. Above, "Magic Carpet Ride" by artist Matthew Antichevich goes through odd transformations, as you'll see in the next slide.Did we forget your ...
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Nuclear failure may show limits of computers
View inside one of the San Onofre nuclear power plant's steam generators with the steam dome cut off, looking at the top of the steam bundle. Tubes begin at the opposite end from the viewpoint of this photo, bring hot reactor water up around the tube bend shown in this photo and then end back to the other end where the water returns to the reactor. Thus the tubes are heated. Then a second ...
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Japans trade deficit climbs to $10.5B in May
TOKYO -- Japan's trade deficit rose nearly 10 percent in May to 993.9 billion yen (nearly $10.5 billion) as rising costs for imports due to the cheaper yen matched a rebound in exports.The Ministry of Finance reported Wednesday that exports rose 10.1 percent in May over a year earlier to 5.77 trillion yen ($60.7 billion) while imports also surged 10 percent, to 6.76 trillion yen ($71.1 ...
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Heres what to watch for Wednesday from the Fed
In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve ends a policy meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices ...
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Tweet Becomes An Official Word In Latest Oxford English Dictionary Update
It joins flash mob, fiscal cliff, and dad dancing in the English language dictionary, an academic piece of work that is always being updated and revised. What's of more interest to me is the process for removing a word from the OEDthere isn't one. As Sarah Ogilvie explained ...
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Best Ways To Give Your Heirs Money While Youre Alive
worry about their children's financial futures . Increasingly, we've been asked to help them find ways to assist their kids now, rather than waiting to leave them money and assets in ...
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Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet
said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant ...
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Chrysler agrees to recall 1.56 million Jeeps
The NHTSA's concerns over older-model Jeep Grand Cherokees and Libertys has prompted a recall after investigations found a crash from behind could puncture the fuel tank, possibly causing a fire. NBC's Brian Williams ...
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Dish steps down from Sprint merger to clear way for Clearwire
After a months-long battle between Dish and SoftBank over Sprint, the satellite company abandons its $25.5 billion bid for the wireless carrier to focus on "completing the Clearwire tender ...
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Candy Crush Saga creator appears sweet on an IPO
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Anonymous sources told the Journal that King, through its holding company Midasplayer International Holding Co., has talked to several banks including J.P. Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse Group AG, and Bank of America to carry out its initial public offering, or IPO, in the U.S. This means King wants to sell shares of its company to public investors. While ...
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The necessity of regular use of the purge command in OS X
When using your Mac, active programs, documents, and system resources will be loaded into memory (RAM), where they can be accessed quickly to run and perform computations. While active memory contents are maintained in memory, the system also keeps some recently used but inactive processes and data there in order to quickly revive them, if needed. These memory allotments should be managed ...
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Dell special committee slams new Icahn plan as incomplete
Committee says activist investor's latest proposal lacks adequate financing and a remedy for the company and its shareholders if his proposal were to ...
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Video shows what looks like iOS 7 running on an iPad
iOS 7 , but photos, videos, and reports are popping up left and right about what the new operating system will look like on the tablet. A new iPad iOS ...
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Stocks post solid gains Tuesday
U.S. markets churned higher Tuesday after the Commerce Department said price inflation remained muted in May. The report by itself had negligible effect. But every report of late has been held up to the light to see how it might affect the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary policy announcement expected Wednesday. Low inflation means the economy is not overheating. In turn, some investors ...
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U.S. oil prices steady Tuesday
A motorist pumps gas in Denver on April 15, 2011. Consumers paid an average price of $3.60 a gallon nationwide on Tuesday according to the travel group AAA. UPI/Gary C. ...
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Quake studies cut short by nuke shutdown
The operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is likely to scale back a robust slate of earthquake studies as it moves forward with retiring the coastal power ...
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SEC to require mea culpas in some big settlements
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission says the agency will start requiring companies and individuals to admit wrongdoing in some big settlements.Currently the SEC allows companies and individuals to settle charges without admitting or denying wrongdoing. Critics, including a federal judge, have complained that policy doesn't deter repeat violations.Mary Jo ...
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Al Capones Final Home Sells
One of America's most notorious gangsters didn't go down in a gunfight, but died of heart failure in a luxe Miami Beach mansion. Al Capone's last years were spent at the Palm Island residence in relative anonymity. It's where he decided to retire and reportedly where he planned his final Chicago event: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The home served as his alibi. ...
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Sold Arnold Schwarzeneggers Former Home And Place Of Affair
Some homes have a tough time shaking their reputation, especially if they're reputation is tied to a highly publicized scandal. Take, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger's former Pacific Palisades home, which was listed in 2011 but didn't snag a buyer until just recently. Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver lived in the house from 1986 to 2003, according to ...
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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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