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Allow me to ask you a question: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It's a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities. Think of it as an interview condensed into one question. Foster Huntington has collected answers to this telling question from thousands of responders all over the world to get to the heart of what it is that people truly value.

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Jordskalvet i nordöstra Italien har förstört mer än 300 000 parmesanostar och den liknande ostsorten grana padano.

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A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot petting zoo, a piano made of bananas, and a cardboard Trojan Horse. Plus a zillion different interactive attractions, classes, and events for kids of all ages. Yes, the Maker Faire is back in town, and only just in time. It was exactly the tonic I needed after my inability to get excited about the Facebook  show all text

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Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web's most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change ...

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Robin Gibb one-third of the Bee Gees died Sunday after a long battle with cancer his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement Gibb was 62 years old "The family of Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and...

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Foto: Lars Lundqvist Vi kommer för tredje året i rad sända vår dagliga talkshow från Almedalen, God morgon Almedalen, #GMA12. Varje morgon mellan klockan 8-9 ger vi våra kommentarer till det som händer i Almedalen. Syftet med våra sändningar är att vi vill göra fler delaktiga i det som sker under Politikerveckan för att på sikt inspirera fler till deltagande och engagemang. Politikerveckan handlar om möten, vi vill bjuda på dem även digitalt. Under veckan ger vi dagsaktuella analyser av det som...  show all text

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The music industry argues the file-sharing site LimeWire should pay for copyright infringement for 11,000 songs, and even the judge thinks the labels are insane.

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Editor's note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days. In our final look at the leading tech bloggers of this era, we profile a couple of guys who have cornered the market in a certain brand of hipness. Gruber is the ultimate indie voice in Apple news, with his one-man blog Daring Fireball. Topolsky is the leader at The Ver...  show all text

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I'm tired of the opportunists and their hackathons The billion dollar tech startup valuations and acquisitions are starting to attract a lot of opportunist to the industry. A lot of these people are...

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Last week, I attended a conference presentation where a team presented findings from their A/B Testing efforts. It was a cute presentation where they posted the control and test variants, then asked the audience to pick which one “won” the A/B test. They compared the audience answer to the variant that demonstrated the best increase in the conversion rate (sometimes as little as 0.9%, which the presenters declared as a “huge increase”). For dramatic effect, the variant that won often broke many...  show all text

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A strong earthquake struck early Sunday in northern Italy, leaving at least five people dead, authorities said.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has been getting tougher on insider trading on Wall Street, but its potential target may be too wide.

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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These are the faces of America's missing men, women and children - their families left behind. Help find them.

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Research shows that more than half of office workers are dissatisfied with the level of “speech privacy” in their offices, and managers are hearing their complaints.

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This isn't going to be a popular thing to say, but it needs to be said. So here goes... All this whining and umbrage about Facebook's IPO is ridiculous. When are people who voluntarily speculate on stocks finally going to take responsibility for their decisions? Never, apparently. On Thursday, Facebook priced its IPO at $38. On Friday, the stock opened at $42, a 10% jump, and spent most of the day trading above $40. Then, thanks to heavy support from the company's bankers, the stock closed just...  show all text

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A visit to the innovation hubs of Seattle and Silicon Valley stirred both excitement and dread. Here’s why.

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On Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that he had married his long-time girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. The announcement was made, of course, on Facebook.

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In a surprise ceremony, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in a private wedding at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. on Saturday. Zuckerberg, who just became a billionaire as a result of the Facebook IPO on Friday, reportedly placed a ring on his wife’s finger during the ceremony — the ring, said to be designed by Zuckerberg himself, was described as featuring a “very simple ruby.” According to the Associated Press, Zuckerberg’s marriage to Pri...  show all text

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As I write this, I'm 37,500 feet above Iowa. It's slightly cold in the cabin. I can't hear a thing besides the jet engines. I (obviously) have Internet access, but it's not yet ubiquitous enough for everyone to assume that I have it, so no one is bugging me. In many ways, this is the perfect way to write. I miss writing. The sad truth is that it's increasingly hard for me to find time for it anymore. Yes, I do a column for TechCrunch, and yes, I post rants here and there on ParisLemon. But it's...  show all text

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Kids:  A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know.  Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because they once created a show and cast my good friend Jeff Davis on it, so how bad can they be. Why’d Sony want me gone?  I can’t answer that because I’ve been in as much contact with them as you have.  Th...  show all text

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