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submitted by Lisa 208 weeks 3 days 10 hours 13 minutes ago
Yahoo board of directors decided at a meeting Friday to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for the company, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to the Mercury News.
The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was reached because the board believes the $31 per...(more)
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submitted by Jazz 173 weeks 2 days 18 hours 17 minutes ago
Gliese 876 is a modest star, just one-third the mass of our sun and only 15 light-years away, but it has a history-making planetary system all its own. In 1998 a team led by Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley detected the first...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 10 hours 17 minutes ago
(Reuters) - Struggling PC chipmaker Advanced Mico Devices Inc said senior vice president and chief sales officer Emilio Ghilardi was leaving the company with immediate effect.
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Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species
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submitted by Ari for team iphone mania 240 weeks 4 days 7 hours 20 minutes ago
Those standing in line around the Bay Area to be among the first to spring for a new iPhone shouldn't feel bad: Even the cofounder of Apple was queued up.
Steve Wozniak arrived at the Apple store at Valley Fair Mall in San Jose at 4 a.m....(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Breast cancer info 131 weeks 6 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago
Doctors have known since the 1970s that dense breast tissue can mask tumors, but it is only in the past few years, with the advent of new tools for diagnosing breast cancer, that determining breast density was helpful for women. But just how useful that...
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 41 weeks 5 days 17 hours 33 minutes ago
The largest fossil spider uncovered to date once ensnared prey back in the age of dinosaurs, scientists find.
The spider, named Nephila jurassica, was discovered buried in ancient volcanic ash in Inner Mongolia, China. Tufts of hairlike fibers seen on its legs showed this 165-million-year-old arachnid to...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 167 weeks 5 days 2 hours 33 minutes ago
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers,...(more)
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submitted by JKM 224 weeks 1 day 9 hours 41 minutes ago
Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 hours 16 minutes ago
This tutorial video for EVE Online shows off some of the beautiful new nebulae and gorgeous ship models and wraps them in a straightforward description of why EVE is different.
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submitted by AB 249 weeks 4 days 16 hours 20 minutes ago
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
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submitted by elvis 177 weeks 4 days 17 hours 58 minutes ago
In Alaska, voters have twice voted to outlaw aerial hunting -- because it's so outrageously unsportsmanlike. Both times a loophole permitted it to continue.
As governor, Palin both actively supports aerial hunting and, in fact, participates in it. Oh, and the grizzly hide her father shot that's...(more)
