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CES 2012: Hands-on with Toshiba's sliver-thin Excite X10 tablet
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:42 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Last time around at CES, we were wholly underwhelmed by Toshiba's first Android tablet, the Thrive. This year it seems that the team at Toshiba went back to the drawing board. Its second slate effort, the 10.1" Toshiba Excite X10 is … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Gingrich's latest invention: The Romney 'baloney meter'
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:32 PM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H. -- Newt Gingrich's campaign is playing off the candidate's most memorable line at the weekend "Meet the Press" Republican presidential debate, calling on Mitt Romney to drop what Gingrich called the former Massachusetts governor's  "pious baloney" about working in the private sector,  with an anti-Romney video on Monday. The spot introduces a "baloney meter" [...] Full Story 		Top

Scientists modify silkworms to spin silk twice as strong
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:22 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Spiders don't just dance well; they also spin remarkably tougher silk than silkworms do. Unfortunately, they're also cannibalistic and territorial, making then unsuitable for commercial silk farming. Scientists from the University of Notre Dame, University of Wyoming, and Kraig BioCraft … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

White House rips Jodi Kantor's book on 'The Obamas'
Mon,9 Jan 2012 06:44 PM PST
The Cutline - "The Obamas," New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor's upcoming book about the Obama administration, is causing some controversy over its depiction of tensions among White House staffers and First Lady Michelle Obama--and over Kantor's claim that the White House wanted to keep an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed 2009 Halloween party secret. According to the book, due [...] Full Story 		Top

Are you voting in New Hampshire? We want to see your photos
Mon,9 Jan 2012 03:09 PM PST
The Ticket - Are you a resident of the Granite state headed to the polls tomorrow? We want you to see your photos of Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary and share them with other Yahoo! readers. If your local polling officials allow pictures, please send us your shots of lines at the polling place, registration desks, signs, and candidate supporters [...] Full Story 		Top

Mitt Romney goes into damage control over 'fire people' remark
Mon,9 Jan 2012 02:24 PM PST
The Ticket - HUDSON, New Hampshire—Mitt Romney hadn't planned on addressing the media trailing him in the Granite State this week, but finally he had to, all in the name of damage control. After a town hall with employees of a metal fabricating plant here, the former Massachusetts governor stepped to the mic to clarify two statements he's [...] Full Story 		Top

Do restaurant chefs really spit on food?
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST
The Sideshow - A waiter at Per Se, one of New York City's to-rated restaurants, reveals secrets and debunks some urban legends surrounding food service culture: "Then you have the couple that goes and has sex in the bathroom—that happens quite a lot. You have people who throw up—they throw up a lot. There was one woman—it was [...] Full Story 		Top

DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash, new report reveals
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:23 PM PST
The Envoy - Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, working with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain. The covert activities were undertaken as part of an operation to infiltrate and prosecute a major Colombian-Mexican narco-trafficking organization moving cocaine from Colombia [...] Full Story 		Top

In New Hampshire, mayor hopes Romney will help him reject refugees
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:04 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H.--With Mitt Romney's strength in the polls in New Hampshire, the mayor of the state's biggest city hopes that a resolution to what he calls "the refugee resettlement question" will soon be at hand. While the Republican presidential candidates have been slugging it out in televised debates over issues like taxes and wars, one [...] Full Story 		Top

CES 2012: Sprint to carry Galaxy Nexus, roll out 4G LTE to four cities
Mon,9 Jan 2012 12:17 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Rejoice if you're on Sprint, and have been yearning for an LTE device or two — the carrier recently announced the beginning of its move from 4G WiMAX to 4G LTE. The first four markets to get LTE as well … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

National Geographic's photo of the year winners
Mon,9 Jan 2012 12:02 PM PST
The Sideshow - National Geographic has released the winners of this year's worldwide photography competition. Back in November, we showed you some of the more compelling entries in the competition. Here is the photo that won both the Grand Prize and "Nature" categories, taken by Shikhei Goh in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia: Goh writes of his award-winning picture: [...] Full Story 		Top

Romney can still hack it where unemployment is low
Mon,9 Jan 2012 11:18 AM PST
The Signal - As several media outlets have noted, both Iowa and New Hampshire have low unemployment rates compared to the rest of the country, possibly undermining the Republican candidates' perseverating claim that they are better equipped than President Obama to create jobs. Conventional wisdom holds that Romney and Paul should fare the best in places where unemployment [...] Full Story 		Top

iPad falls 100,000 feet and survives
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:45 AM PST
Technology News Blog - The iPad may not have been blasted off to space aboard a shuttle like its sibling the iPhone, but it has reached 100,000' above sea level attached to a weather balloon. It also fell from that altitude after the balloon … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Press crush for Ron Paul prompts complaints, potential bruises in Manchester, NH
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:39 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H.--Politics can be dangerous business sometimes--especially when you're being shadowed by a giant crowd of media professionals carrying heavy cameras and trying to capture your every move. Ron Paul cut short his handshaking with voters Monday morning here at MoeJoe's Restaurant after the throngs of journalists trailing the Texas congressman effectively crowded out many [...] Full Story 		Top

Gingrich: I'm not going to let up on Romney
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:25 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- First of all, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich wants you to understand one thing: It's not called going "negative"; it's "drawing contrasts." But whatever. Over the past two weeks, Gingrich has stepped up his rhetoric against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, while a super PAC supporting the former House Speaker readies the [...] Full Story 		Top

Viewership of online video skyrockets
Mon,9 Jan 2012 09:57 AM PST
Technology News Blog - If you love watching video online using Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, you're in good company. The number of Americans who watch video over the internet has grown to 143 million — nearly half the number of Americans who watch television. … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Video of 30-Story Hotel Built in 360 Hours
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:56 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! Almost anywhere you go in the country, you're bound to run into construction of some kind. Whether it's on a building or a highway, it seems as if construction takes is everywhere and takes forever [...] Full Story 		Top

PayPal dispute leads to the destruction of a $2,500 violin
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:55 AM PST
Technology News Blog - A PayPal dispute is never pretty, as demonstrated by a case that led to the destruction of a $2,500 French violin that lived through World War II. Regretsy recently published a letter from someone named Erica who sold the violin to a … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Video: Woman survives fall from broken bungee rope
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:43 AM PST
The Sideshow - A 22-year-old Australian woman is recovering after a bungee cord jump went horribly wrong, sending her plummeting into white water rapids while she vacationed in Africa. To add to the trauma, the rapids in question--on the Zambezi River, on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border--are reportedly thick with crocodiles. "It felt like I had been slapped all over," Erin [...] Full Story 		Top

Ron Paul supporters rule the night in Manchester
Mon,9 Jan 2012 08:35 AM PST
The Ticket - We stumbled upon a group of Ron Paul supporters this weekend in downtown Manchester blasting Sinatra impersonator Rick Ellis' "New York, New York" homage to the Texas congressman. The song filled the night air while a flashing electronic sign that said "Ron Paul 2012" was projected onto a nearby building. In other words, just another [...] Full Story 		Top

Mitt Romney's biggest test: Can he connect with voters?
Mon,9 Jan 2012 05:53 PM PST
The Ticket - ROCHESTER, New Hampshire—So far, Mitt Romney has made few major missteps in his pursuit of the 2012 Republican nomination, running a consistent campaign largely free of the errors that have caused his GOP rivals to stumble. But the former Massachusetts isn't entirely immune from mistakes, and he often makes them when trying to work on [...] Full Story 		Top

White House hosted "Alice in Wonderland" party
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:53 AM PST
The Sideshow - A new book reports that the Obama White House hosted an extravagant "Alice in Wonderland" party in the fall of 2009, designed by director Tim Burton and featuring actor Johnny Depp. In "The Obamas," New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor writes that the White House decided to downplay the expensive Halloween party over fears of [...] Full Story 		Top

U.S. condemns reported Iran death sentence for former U.S. Marine
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:11 AM PST
The Envoy - The State Department said Monday that it was working to confirm Iranian state media reports that an Iran revolutionary court had sentenced an American citizen and former U.S. Marine Amir Mirzaei Hekmati to death on charges of spying for the CIA. "If true, we strongly condemn this verdict," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in [...] Full Story 		Top

New Hampshire poll: Romney 41, Paul 17, Santorum and Huntsman tied
Mon,9 Jan 2012 06:30 AM PST
The Ticket - Here are the latest numbers from WMUR out of New Hampshire, one day before the primary: The top spot in the latest WMUR/University of New Hampshire poll still belongs to Mitt Romney, but the race for second and third place is very close. Romney holds a commanding lead with 41 percent of those surveyed saying [...] Full Story 		Top

Video: New Hampshire sign wavers explain why they bother being out ahead of primary
Mon,9 Jan 2012 05:24 AM PST
The Ticket - They're ubiquitous in New Hampshire at the moment. They seem unperturbed by even the harshest weather conditions. And it's pretty likely you'll never even speak to one. They're sign wavers. Cadres of people waving signs can be found at nearly every political event in the early voting states. standing outside--usually near traffic-- with the sole [...] Full Story 		Top

Carl Paladino, Newt Gingrich's New York attack dog
Mon,9 Jan 2012 05:23 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. --Who needs a super PAC to run attack ads when you have Carl effin' Paladino on your side? The renegade New York Republican who ran for governor in 2010 is back, and he's jumped on the Newt bandwagon to extend a hand to the campaign's efforts in the Empire State. Paladino swung by [...] Full Story 		Top

Wonkiest sign in New Hampshire?
Sun,8 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- People who live in early primary states pay attention. Just hours after Sunday's Republican presidential debate in which Newt Gingrich told Mitt Romney to spare the nation his "pious baloney" about spending most of his career in the private sector, this man, pictured above, decided to make a new sign. He is [...] Full Story 		Top

No break for Ron Paul following New Hampshire
Sun,8 Jan 2012 02:55 PM PST
The Ticket - MEREDITH, N.H. Ron Paul has confounded some political observers by taking extended breaks during some of the presidential campaign's most pivotal moments. But apparently, that habit won't continue. Regardless of how the Texas congressman performs Jan. 10 in New Hampshire, Paul said he's immediately jetting off to South Carolina. "I think I will be in [...] Full Story 		Top

Could the 2012 GOP nomination be drawing to a close? Candidates attack Romney, but fail to land lasting blows
Sun,8 Jan 2012 12:20 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- It is somewhat astonishing, if not unjustified, that although only a small slice of voters have cast ballots in a single state where the winner emerged with an 8-vote margin of victory, the dominant question hanging over the contest for the Republican nomination is, 'Is it over?' Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney [...] Full Story 		Top

Photo of the day: Ron Paul pride, hairstyle edition
Sun,8 Jan 2012 11:44 AM PST
The Ticket - MEREDITH, N.H.-- Justin Roy, 22, of Springfield, Mass., is so enamored with Ron Paul that he shaved a testament of support into his head. Roy, who drove two-and-a-half hours to see the Texas congressman speak here at a town hall event, was accompanied by his friend, who also happens to be his barber. Full Story 		Top

Iowa ballot counter stands by claim that his precinct gave Romney 20 extra votes
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:51 AM PST
The Ticket - Edward L. True says he has never experienced this much press attention in his life. "Ed! There's a reporter on the phone!" True's mother said when Yahoo News called to speak with True this weekend. After filing an affidavit Thursday claiming the state Republican party misreported his Iowa precinct's vote totals-- potentially shifting the overall [...] Full Story 		Top

Yahoo! readers still unsure about Romney as frontrunner
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:15 AM PST
The Ticket - When it comes to social media, Saturday's ABC/Yahoo! debate clearly captured the attention of many more Americans than earlier brawls with the crucial New Hampshire primary just days away. We saw nearly double the social media traffic compared to our Dec. 10 debate with ABC, according to social tracking firm Attensity. During the debate's broadcast, Attensity [...] Full Story 		Top

In final New Hampshire debate, candidates go after Romney–very briefly
Sun,8 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST
The Ticket - CONCORD, N.H. -- They had to be poked, prodded and nudged to do it, but the Republican presidential candidates finally went on the offense against front-runner Mitt Romney during a Sunday morning debate--if only for a few minutes. Going down the line, NBC News moderator David Gregory gave the candidates an opportunity to explain in [...] Full Story 		Top

Liveblogging the NBC News/Facebook debate on 'Meet the Press'
Sun,8 Jan 2012 05:16 AM PST
The Ticket - Can it be? It's the last debate before the New Hampshire primary -- and a sleepy press corps has assembled in a filing center in Concord, N.H., to chronicle the event. There will be sleepy candidates, too: Yahoo News saw Rick Santorum arrive at his hotel lobby after 1 a.m. ET last night. During the [...] Full Story 		Top

Republican candidates stand by negative ads, fail to knock out Romney
Sat,7 Jan 2012 08:20 PM PST
The Ticket - GOFFSTOWN, N.H. -- With the pressure on just three days before the first primary contest in the nation, the Republican presidential candidates had their arsenals ready for tonight's debate--but left front runner Mitt Romney largely untouched. Romney is polling at around 40 percent in the state, several points in front of the closest runner-up. Tonight, [...] Full Story 		Top

Liveblogging the Yahoo News/ABC News GOP debate in New Hampshire
Sat,7 Jan 2012 05:32 PM PST
The Ticket - There could be no better distillation of the long 2012 Republican presidential campaign than the weekend before the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, when one presidential debate will end and another will begin within a span of 10 hours. Saturday night's debate, the first since Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race, will be broadcast on ABC [...] Full Story 		Top

RuPaul in New Hampshire: 'This country was founded by a bunch of men wearing wigs'
Sat,7 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "I am not Ron Paul!" shouted RuPaul, the famous drag queen (wearing men's street clothes), at the top of his lungs inside a cramped diner here, a picturesque little restaurant that presidential candidates have visited for years. "And I am not running for president of the United States!," he added. Sleepy locals [...] Full Story 		Top

In New Hampshire, Romney follows Obama's '08 trail
Sat,7 Jan 2012 12:38 PM PST
The Ticket - DERRY, New Hampshire—Mitt Romney attracted his biggest crowd on the campaign trail in weeks, as more than 600 people showed up for an early Saturday morning rally here in the gym of a local private high school. For weeks, Romney has been campaigning in cities where the President Obama spoke four years ago as an [...] Full Story 		Top

In debate prep, student stand-ins for candidates resemble real thing
Sat,7 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, N.H. — Saint Anselm College is still on winter break, and most of the campus is empty and quiet. But one cluster of brick buildings near the campus's southern edge is dotted with TV trucks, lights and crew. The debate is still 24 hours away, but on the stage inside [...] Full Story 		Top

Gingrich's latest Romney slam: He taxed the blind
Sat,7 Jan 2012 06:59 AM PST
The Ticket - NASHUA, N.H. -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has added a new item to his repertoire of attacks against Mitt Romney since his decision to turn up the heat on the former governor, telling a local Republican group on Friday that Romney raised taxes on the blind. "Governor Romney ... promised that he wouldn't raise [...] Full Story 		Top


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