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  How Social Media Backlash Made Susan G. Komen Cave [VIDEO]

  3rd February 2012 21:45

  The online storm surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood came to a close on Friday when…

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  Fake Facebook Users Likely to be Popular Bisexual College Women [INFOGRAPHIC]

  3rd February 2012 21:30

  So you just got a Facebook friend request from a woman you don’t know. Maybe she’s already connected to some of your friends, maybe she is…

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  Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA's Short Term Future

  3rd February 2012 21:30

  Space sucks. Literally. The void of space is one perpetual vacuum that would suck the brain out of any exposed human through their ears. In space there is also unfiltered radiation, extreme temperatures and a multitude of other ways that humans can be harmed outside of low-Earth orbit. Learning how to mitigate radiation and improve space crews' health are two of 16 recommendations made by the National Research Council to NASA for the agency's technological focus in the next five…

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  How Tech Can Prepare You for Extreme Weather

  3rd February 2012 20:53

  Modern technology can’t actually fix the weather — at least not yet. However, social networking and mobile devices can certainly he…

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  Red Bull Launches a Fitness Mission With Fitocracy

  3rd February 2012 20:35

  Red Bull sponsors several extreme sports pros who produce videos with gnarly titles such as “Wakeboarding in the Swamps of Louisiana”…

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  Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology, Dies in Plane Crash

  3rd February 2012 20:13

  Steve Appleton, the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, has died in a plane crash, the company confirmed Friday. He was 51. Appleton was repo…

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  Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals

  3rd February 2012 20:05

  "Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold, all of which are used to manufacture our electronics. Nokia, the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phones, today published its policy on conflict minerals. Sponsor Nokia Policy Against Illegal Trade of Natural Resources In a…

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  Data Visualization for People Who Don't Visualize Data: CA ERwin 8.2

  3rd February 2012 20:00

  In enterprises everywhere - including even the largest ones - the transition to cloud-based architectures has brought a new class of managers into the computing process. Suddenly, personnel managers and folks whose purview had been limited to finance and personnel, are being doubled-up with oversight roles for cloud deployments. The back office is no longer in the back (or the basement), and now these new managers are wondering: What is all this we're dealing with? Donna Burbank - who's a…

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  5 iPhone Twitter Apps that Do More Than Just Tweet

  3rd February 2012 19:59

  When Twitter recently launched the newest version of its iPhone app, the company focused on streamlining and simplifying the user interface. R…

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  iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs

  3rd February 2012 19:45

  iTunes Match, the cloud music-matching service that Apple launched last year, is a great way to sync one's music library across numerous devices. If your collection happens to contain songs with profane lyrics, however, you may be in for a surprise. Apparently, iTunes Match has been inadvertently replacing certain tracks with the "clean" version of the same song, Cult of Mac reported. Sponsor iTunes Match differs from Google's and Amazon's music cloud storage lockers in that it doesn't require users…