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Workers of the World, Innovate

Business Week - Tech - 3 hours 36 min ago
Pitney Bowes, AT&T, and Electronic Arts are among the companies using software to tap workers' collective intelligence to solve problems, reduce costs, and find new markets
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Telecom N.Z. Shares Halted Pending ‘Material Announcement’

Business Week - Tech - 6 hours 14 min ago
Telecom Corp. of New Zealand’s shares were placed in a trading halt in New Zealand “pending a material announcement by the company.”
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Hewlett-Packard Leads Two-Day Surge of Corporate Bond Issuance

Business Week - Tech - 7 hours 4 min ago
Hewlett-Packard Co. and American Express Co. led companies marketing at least $16.6 billion of debt today, tapping credit markets with investment-grade borrowing costs near the lowest on record.
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Gamemaker's Secret Mission: Save <cite>Duke Nukem Forever</cite>

Wired - 7 hours 42 min ago
When it came to resurrecting the MIA videogame, Randy Pitchford faced a task that was part suicide run, part debt of honor. The Gearbox Software CEO serves up the inside story on the improbable rescue of one of gaming's most beloved (and most obnoxious) franchises.


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DHS Cyber Division Misses 1,085 Holes on Own Network

Wired - 7 hours 49 min ago
The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.


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Hyundai's Land Yacht Should Have Luxury Automakers Quaking

Wired - 8 hours 4 min ago
Our maiden voyage in Hyundai's 17-foot long luxe sedan is impressive if not a tad banal.


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Oracle&rsquo;s Hurd Eligible for $10 Million Bonus for 2011

Business Week - Tech - 8 hours 16 min ago
Oracle Corp., the world’s second- biggest software maker, said it will pay former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd $950,000 a year in salary as president, with a bonus of as much as $10 million.
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Citing Obama's State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case

Wired - 8 hours 31 min ago
Citing the Obama administration's evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court is dismissing a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.


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Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles

Wired - 8 hours 34 min ago
After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university's official sports mascot has fizzled.


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Video: How to Film a 23-Mile Free Fall

Wired - 9 hours 25 min ago
When Felix Baumgartner steps into the void, 18 cameras will take us along for the ride with him.


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Hack Your Parking

Wired - 9 hours 34 min ago
Maybe you always remember where you parked. Maybe you never get parking tickets either. For the rest of us, some tools to alert us when our parking meter is about to expire or give us directions back to our car would be mighty handy.


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HP Sues to Block Hurd from Oracle Move

Business Week - Tech - 9 hours 35 min ago
Hewlett-Packard sued former CEO Mark Hurd to block him from working as a president of Oracle, saying the appointment may cause HP to lose customers, trade secrets and its competitive advantage
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Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera

Wired - 9 hours 44 min ago
When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 am local Italian time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely controlled a 0.25-meter telescope in Mayhill, New Mexico through the Global Remote Astronomy Telescope Network. They got four separate exposures of 30 seconds each and stitched them together to make this animation.


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X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?)

Wired - 9 hours 55 min ago
After a set of sexy X-rays hit the web earlier this year, viewers were left to wonder if they were real. Now we have the answer.


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Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion

Wired - 10 hours 4 min ago
After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that's fighting back.


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The Best Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of

Wired - 10 hours 12 min ago
Esther Vergeer is the best tennis player you've never heard of. Vergeer, who hails from Holland, hasn't lost a wheelchair tennis match since 2003 — that's nearly 400 victories in a row.


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