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While Google has endured criticism for biasing Google+ content in its new “Search Plus Your World” features, Bing has been surprisingly shy about pressing its social search advantage. Especially considering how much Microsoft usually likes to publicly poke Google. In fact, Bing is now the only search engine that has explicit deals to access data from both Facebook and Twitter. But it’s not like Bing is the all-social, all-the-time search engine. In fact, Bing has been oddly reticent about inco...  show all text

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Suspicious of government initiatives, protesters linked to the Tea Party are denouncing all manner of measures they equate with a 1992 United Nations resolution, Agenda 21.

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About 30 employees of the former New York Times Regional Media Group were notified Friday that their new employer, Halifax Media Group, has decided to lay them off and offer severance packages. The other 20 were offered positions, but only … Read more

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FX's highest-rated show has been renewed through season six, though those involved with the show assume a seventh and likely final season will be part of Sutter’s plan.

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When it goes public, Facebook will be conducting an experiment in corporate dictatorship nearly without precedent for such a large and high-profile company.

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a draft resolution backing

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Last fall, when I wrote about the murder of a woman and her two children and the twenty-five-year legal saga to prosecute the killer, Tim Hennis had quite a few legal options. That’s not to say anyone would envy Hennis his predicament. The former Army sergeant was languishing on death row after a jury convicted him and sentenced him to death for murdering Katy Eastburn and two of her three daughters, ages three and five, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, back in May, 1985. (Katy’s husband, an Air  show all text

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<< Previous | Next >> Photos like this could pass for a Cold War-era Russian propaganda program, or perhaps shots straight from the set of the movie Moonraker — if not for a stray pair of late-20th century sneakers. Renowned fashion photographer Arthur Elgort, now 72, actually created these images for the December 1999 issue of Russian Vogue. (The magazine is owned by Conde Nast, which also owns Wired.) In the images, supermodel Natalia Semanova mingles with real-life cosmonau...  show all text

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There are a small number of readers who can’t get enough of the inside baseball of the TechCrunch implosion. And a large number of readers who wish we’d all just move on. I’ve tried to take the high road at all opportunities, because the former are mostly just rubberneckers and the latter are serious readers who want to read great stuff about tech and startups. I promised when I started this site, I wouldn’t waste their time. But it’s 5:06 on a Friday night, and this post has to be written. For...  show all text

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Professionals in crisis communication will be talking about this interview for years. Watch the clip. (It’s excruciating.) Read my analysis, which won’t capture everything. Then add your observations in the comments. Andrea Mitchell of NBC News interviews Nancy Brinker, CEO and founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, about the foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening programs: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about...  show all text

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Prosecutors end two-year inquiry into seven-time Tour de France champ's alleged use of performance enhancing drugs

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We recently pointed out that a bunch of Polish politicians wore Guy Fawkes/Anonymous masks in Parliament to protest ACTA:It appears that some politicians in Bulgaria thought that was a good idea, and have done the same thing:It's...

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For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form

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If there was a bright spot in the latest quarterly results from the New York Times, it’s the fact that the newspaper’s metered paywall has attracted almost 325,000 subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee for the site. Despite all the celebrating from the pro-paywall camp, however, that bright spot was more than overshadowed by the other dark clouds in the numbers — including the fact that print advertising revenue continues to decline, and the paper’s former online jewel About.com got whacked ...  show all text

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Though Silicon Valley has lured away plenty of start-ups, (cough: Facebook), New York is becoming a magnet of its own, attracting companies that want to build their businesses amid the bright lights of the big city. In the last couple months, New York has drawn former San Francisco start-up Qwiki, PlaceIQ from Colorado and recent 500 Startups graduate Snapette, which started in Boston before spending the last half year in Silicon Valley. These are just a few recent transplants but they show how...  show all text

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. An Army officer is recommending a general court-martial for Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP   WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is headed for a general court-martial, according to the commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington in an announcement released late Friday. Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington, ...  show all text

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Earlier, I linked to this set of three pie charts by Ed Bott, but it’s worth mentioning something else about them. The subtle point that it seems Bott is trying to make is that out of Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Microsoft has the best business because it’s the most well-rounded. (Meanwhile, Google has the worst because it’s entirely dominated by one thing: advertising.) At a high-level, that’s an interesting point to make, I think. But without context, the Apple chart is a little misleading. ...  show all text

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In Silicon Valley, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personality. It signals that you are part of the in crowd.

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Federal prosecutors ended an investigation of the seven-time Tour de France winner without charging him over allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

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This funny little piece of email just got forwarded to me … From: “****, ***” Date: February 3, 2012 10:11:04 AM PST To: Greg Barto [@ TechCrunch] Subject: NapQuest Hey Greg It is one of our goals to get a “nap room” set-up in every location. Basically, it’s a closed room where we would put a chaise or couch, darken the windows and allow people to nap as the [sic] like. This is high on the priority list for Arianna and your office is one of the few where we don’t yet have it in place. When I vi...  show all text

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Screenshot of Templates page from iBooks Author Apple has amended a controversial clause in the end-user license agreement of its recently introduced iBooks Author e-book creation app. The first version could be read as saying that any e-book created or edited in iBooks Author could only be sold exclusively in Apple’s store. The new EULA of iBooks Author 1.0.1, released Friday, makes it clear that content created inside iBooks Author belongs to authors, and can be sold on any other e-book platf...  show all text

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For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. Going public is the purest capitalist act — a deep and unambiguous genuflection to Mammon. But a founder’s letter provides an opportunity to explain that while the company is indeed tapping the rapacious forces of Wall Street to solicit investments on the open market, it’s not really about the billions of dollars set to tumble in...  show all text

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Meet our new Managing Editor. His name is Joel Johnson and he’s “done many things,” from editing major sites (like Gizmodo and Kotaku) to flat-out launching others (Boing Boing Gadgets, Off World, and Consumerist). And now he’s down with us. Shit’s epic. Joel will be disinfecting himself over the next two weeks and then he’ll get started doing something. As he told me earlier, “Whatever we do, we’re going to do it very loud!” Boom. (Photo: provided by Joel Johnson)

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Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.

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Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, was secretly involved in the Komen Foundation’s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood. Fleischer personally interviewed candidates for the position of “Senior Vice President for Communications and External Relations” at Komen last December. According to a source with first-hand knowledge, Fleischer drilled prospective candidates during their interviews on how they would handle the controversy about Komen’s...  show all text

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