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Yahoo reorg centralizes power
Gadgets & Tech – Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganized its upper management Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said.
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Woman finds brand new grenade in backyard
News – Canadian military and police are investigating after a package containing a brand new hand grenade, belonging to the army, was found in a suburban backyard, police said on Monday.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / No sinks
The Latest Wedge Document
Science – Creationist groups are turning to the Louisiana legislature with a new approach to challenge the teaching of evolutionary theory in schools.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill…
Gadgets & Tech – It used to be that just the entertainment industries wanted to control your computers -- and televisions and iPods and everything else -- to ensure that you didn't violate any copyright rules. But now everyone else…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 29 votes / No sinks
Bits of Ancient Earth Hidden on the Moon
Science – Some scientists believe that at least one meteorite found in Antarctica preserves evidence of ancient life on Mars. Now, work by a team of English scientists reinforces an earlier suggestion that evidence of life…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks
Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools, Pt. 3 - Intro…
Gadgets & Tech – An XHTML editor is a lot like a teacup dog breed or a designer pig. Okay, so they don't tremble incessantly or have the tendency to pee in the corner of your living room. They are really just highly specialized,…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / No sinks
Microbes Eating Away at Pieces of History
Science – Cyanobacteria are destroying Angkor Wat, along with hundreds of other heritage sites around the globe.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / No sinks
Heinz in Hot Water Over Hot Kiss
Do No Evil – The condiment giant yanked a television commercial last week in Great Britain because of complaints that the ad featured a quick kiss between two men. But taking the ad down may have only compounded Heinz's problem.…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
Soon: A Laptop in Your Pocket?
Gadgets & Tech – Your laptop is likely to soon go the way of 5.25-in. floppy disks, made obsolete by smaller, more useful technology: the smart phone.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / No sinks
Revising HIV's History
Health & Fitness – The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to new findings.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks
AFL-CIO Endorses Obama For President
Politics – The AFL-CIO has endorsed Barack Obama for president, uniting the nation's 15 million union workers behind the presumed Democratic candidate.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / No sinks
Rising seas threaten west Antarctic
Science – There's a 'big gorilla hiding the closet' whose collapse could have a dramatic effect on sea levels, according to Australian researchers.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / No sinks
U.S. Crop Damage From Weather Tops $8 Billion
News – From the worst floods in the Midwest grain belt in 15 years to drought in California, damage to crops from inclement weather has topped $8 billion so far this year, the largest U.S. farm group said on Wednesday.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 25 votes / No sinks
Planetary science: Tunguska at 100
Science – The most dramatic cosmic impact in recent history has gathered up almost as many weird explanations as it knocked down trees, writes Duncan Steel.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / No sinks
Fructose sugar 'fuelling obesity'
Health & Fitness – The wrong kind of sugar could be fuelling the obesity epidemic, according to new research.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks
Twitter Gets Help from Bezos
Gadgets & Tech – When the news broke on June 24 that microblogging sensation Twitter picked up new venture investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the company--as luck would have it--was suffering a service outage. "Twitter…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 29 votes / No sinks
Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'?
Science – Missiles stored in the close confines of a submarine could explode in a chain reaction, according to a UK Ministry of Defense manual
This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / No sinks
Iraq Attacks Claim More Americans
News – A suicide bomber struck Thursday inside a municipal building west of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people at a meeting of tribal sheiks opposed to al Qaeda, police said. The U.S. confirmed American casualties but…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks
Strahan films cameo on NBC's "Chuck"
Television – Michael Strahan's broadcasting career is taking off -- he's the newest member of FOX's NFL pregame show -- and his acting career isn't far behind.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / No sinks
The Right Mulch for Any Occasion
Do-It-Yourself – Mulch might seem like such an innocuous thing that it wouldn't matter which type you pick. But it's not that simple.
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Slash and Sebastian Bach cook up top-secret project
Music – Sebastian Bach says Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has contacted him "out of the blue" for a top-secret job, but not as the replacement for the group's fired frontman Scott Weiland.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
The original Microsoft 'family'
Gadgets & Tech – In 1978, when Microsoft was three years old and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, there were only a dozen people working for the company - compared with the current number of almost 90 000 employees worldwide.
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New bill mandates closed captioning for Internet video
Gadgets & Tech – Congress's biggest telecom disability rights advocate has introduced new legislation that would, among other provisions, extend close captioning to some Internet video. Edward Markey's (D-MA) "21st Century Communications…
This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks
Supreme Court Shoots Down D.C. Gun Ban
News – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the District of Columbia cannot ban a citizen from keeping a handgun at home, throwing out one of the nation's strictest gun control laws.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / No sinks
Evolutionary Basics: Synteny Explained with Playing Cards
Science – And what, please, is synteny? Synteny is the conservation of blocks of order within two sets of chromosomes that are being compared.
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