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- Pint-sized boxing robot is a motion-controlled fighting machine
- Just Show Me: How to disable NFC on your Android phone
- 'The regime in Iran is a very rational one' former Israeli intelligence chief tells CBS
- Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds
- Syria deputy oil minister defects, video claims
- See an Angry Birds Space demonstration … in space
- Ad race of 2012: Obama spot tops most frequently aired political ads
- White House coy on reported Israeli request for bombs, planes
- White House shrugs off charges of double standard on Limbaugh
- 'Santorum Girls' video going viral, old-school style
- Bin Laden's wives: The terrorist leader endured squabbling spouses and a power struggle his last months, says one account
- World's First Self-Refrigerating Can
- James Cameron sets submarine diving world record
- Limbaugh about AshleyMadison.com: 'We do not [accept] sponsor companies that help people cheat on their spouses'
- Kony 2012: Invisible Children's viral video sparks criticism that others say is unfounded
- Apple almost sold out of new 4G iPads
- Take a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the Back to the Future hoverboards
- Breitbart's Obama college video turns out to be a dud, sparks race debate
- Santorum super PAC goes big in the South
- Tom Hanks narrates Obama campaign's 'documentary'
- As go the prediction markets, so goes Ohio
- From college business plan to successful company
- Memoirs of Fallen Journalist Anthony Shadid
- What to watch for Thursday in politics
- Man and Metal: Tristan Shone and the future of music.
- The New iPad: Is It Worth The Money?
- Just Show Me: How to disable Beam on your Android phone
- Caught in a yawn: Videos of politicians and their kids in need of some shut-eye
- Sarkozy's 'Southern strategy': French president says 'too many foreigners' in France
- Romney weak, but it'll take all our strength to beat him, say Obama aides
- Apple's new iPad can max out your data plan in 10 minutes
- Oil is 'the fuel of the past,' says President Obama
- The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes on Iran war drums
- Apple officially reveals the new iPad, and yes, you're probably going to want one
- 5 fresh features that put the new iPad in a class of its own
- Lottery winner on food stamps even after $1 million jackpot
- Apple's new iPad unveiled: We're in a 'post-PC revolution,' says CEO Tim Cook
- Obama eyeing iPad3—'assuming there is a new one'
- AshleyMadison.com CEO offers to buy Limbaugh ads: 'We are in the business of selling affairs, and our audience is absolutely his audience'
- Pentagon chiefs say U.S. should not act alone in Syria
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Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds
Thu,8 Mar 2012 02:34 PM PST
The Sideshow - A commonly prescribed drug used to treat high blood pressure may have the unintended benefit of muting racist thoughts in those who take it. A new Oxford University research study found that Propranolol, which works to combat high blood pressure, anxiety, migraines, and a number of heart ailments, affects the same part of the central [...] Full Story | Top |
Syria deputy oil minister defects, video claims
Thu,8 Mar 2012 02:19 PM PST
The Envoy - A man claiming to be Syria's deputy oil minister Abdo Husameddine has defected, denouncing the Bashar al-Assad regime in a YouTube video that urged his fellow Syrians to "abandon this sinking ship." "I do not want to end my life servicing the crimes of this regime," Husameddine says on the video which was posted to [...] Full Story | Top |
Ad race of 2012: Obama spot tops most frequently aired political ads
Thu,8 Mar 2012 02:01 PM PST
The Ticket - The Mitt Romney campaign has spent more than $55 million on political advertising—the most of any Republican candidate this election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org. Barack Obama has spent $63 million, a little less than half of his $136 million war chest. That doesn't include the super PACs supporting them, which have spent millions more. The [...] Full Story | Top |
White House coy on reported Israeli request for bombs, planes
Thu,8 Mar 2012 01:36 PM PST
The Ticket - Call it a classic "non-denial denial." The White House tap danced Thursday around questions about news reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Obama administration for massive "bunker-buster" bombs and long-range refueling planes that could play a role in a strike on Iran. Israeli media accounts said that Washington agreed in return for [...] Full Story | Top |
White House shrugs off charges of double standard on Limbaugh
Thu,8 Mar 2012 01:05 PM PST
The Ticket - The White House appears to be unlikely to heed a demand from a conservative women's group that President Barack Obama repudiate "serially vile misogynist" comic Bill Maher. In a letter to White House chief of staff Jack Lew, Concerned Women for America called on Obama to live up to his "eloquent" defense of Georgetown University [...] Full Story | Top |
'Santorum Girls' video going viral, old-school style
Thu,8 Mar 2012 12:55 PM PST
The Ticket - After meeting Rick Santorum a few days before Oklahoma's Super Tuesday primary, Tulsa resident David Harris had an idea: his musically inclined family should compose a campaign song for the candidate. By Monday morning, the Harris family band—known as First Love—had written and recorded "Game On," an infectious, catchy two-and-a-half minute tribute to Santorum with lead vocals [...] Full Story | Top |
World's First Self-Refrigerating Can
Thu,8 Mar 2012 11:37 AM PST
This Could Be Big - Self chilling beverage technology has been around for almost 20 years, but due to environmental and design issues that needed to be worked out, the first can is just now coming to the market, and we're getting the first look. West Coast Chill is the drink, a sugar and caffeine free energy drink that will [...] Full Story | Top |
James Cameron sets submarine diving world record
Thu,8 Mar 2012 10:56 AM PST
The Sideshow - Filmmaker James Cameron set the record this week for the world's deepest solo submarine dive and says he next plans to dive even deeper in a matter of weeks. National Geographic reports that Cameron set the 5.1-mile record on Tuesday, during testing of the submarine Deepsea Challenger off the coast of Papua New Guinea. And [...] Full Story | Top |
Breitbart's Obama college video turns out to be a dud, sparks race debate
Thu,8 Mar 2012 09:22 AM PST
The Ticket - Andrew Breitbart's promised video of Barack Obama's college days at Harvard University was released in full on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Wednesday night—and unlike the late conservative provocateur's other video hits, this one appears to be a bit of a dud. The video—which sent some conservatives into a frenzy when Breitbart told an [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum super PAC goes big in the South
Thu,8 Mar 2012 09:20 AM PST
The Ticket - The super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum plans to spend "well over half a million" dollars on television airtime in Alabama and Mississippi before the primaries there next week. The ad, which the pro-Santorum "Red, White and Blue Fund" first released in February, targets Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, hitting the former house [...] Full Story | Top |
Tom Hanks narrates Obama campaign's 'documentary'
Thu,8 Mar 2012 08:10 AM PST
The Ticket - It's as slick as any commercial Hollywood production. And it's about as much a "documentary" as a campaign speech by Joe Biden. President Barack Obama's re-election machine on Thursday released a two-minute trailer for what they have billed as a 17-minute documentary that makes the case that he deserves a second term. From the giant [...] Full Story | Top |
As go the prediction markets, so goes Ohio
Thu,8 Mar 2012 07:32 AM PST
The Signal - Ten states voted in caucuses and primaries on Super Tuesday, but you could be forgiven for thinking only Ohioans were holding a primary contest, given the news industry's relentless obsession with the state. Now that the dust has settled, let's have a look at how poll-based and market-based prediction engines fared in foreseeing the victor. [...] Full Story | Top |
From college business plan to successful company
Thu,8 Mar 2012 06:56 AM PST
Driven - Imagine you're a college student and you've just won $20,000 in an entrepreneurship contest. What would you do with the money? If you're like many college students, you might throw the mother of all keg parties, or maybe plan the most epic Spring Break trip ever. Or maybe you'd pay some bills, put some money [...] Full Story | Top |
Memoirs of Fallen Journalist Anthony Shadid
Thu,8 Mar 2012 06:04 AM PST
Around the World - Before Anthony Shadid died of a severe Asthma attack while fleeing Syria on horseback in February, he had just finished a memoir called, "House of Stone." The book is a contrast to the "life of guns and misery" he had carved out for himself as a journalist, courageously embedding himself in hostile war zones, as [...] Full Story | Top |
What to watch for Thursday in politics
Thu,8 Mar 2012 03:51 AM PST
The Ticket - The GOP hopefuls will focus on the South on Thursday. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will be in Mississippi, and Rick Santorum will be in Alabama. Both states hold primaries Tuesday. Romney, coming off six wins on Super Tuesday, will be in Jackson at 8:15 a.m. CST and in Pascagoula at 4:30 p.m. CST. The [...] Full Story | Top |
The New iPad: Is It Worth The Money?
Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:39 PM PST
Upgrade Your Life - The latest iPad has just been unveiled. And the big question: Should you buy one? Buy Or Wait? The answer depends on whether you already own a tablet — and if so, which one? If you've been waiting to buy an iPad … … and you have the cash? No brainer — this is a [...] Full Story | Top |
Caught in a yawn: Videos of politicians and their kids in need of some shut-eye
Wed,7 Mar 2012 03:52 PM PST
The Upshot - Without a clear front runner certain to win among the GOP field, this campaign season has been particularly tough. And during Super Tuesday's 10-state primary vote, politicians and their families were understandably weary. In fact, some have been caught catching a few ZZZs on tape. As Republican campaign strategist John Brabunder put it, "There is [...] Full Story | Top |
Sarkozy's 'Southern strategy': French president says 'too many foreigners' in France
Wed,7 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PST
The Envoy - Fighting an uphill reelection campaign, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Tuesday that there are too many foreigners in France. "Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school," Sarkozy said on a three-hour [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney weak, but it'll take all our strength to beat him, say Obama aides
Wed,7 Mar 2012 02:05 PM PST
The Ticket - President Barack Obama's top reelection strategists derisively painted Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Wednesday as a weak candidate who alienates key voting blocs and seems unable to unite his party. But they then warned any complacent Democrats that it would take a massive, well-funded and organized campaign to beat him in "a tough race" [...] Full Story | Top |
Oil is 'the fuel of the past,' says President Obama
Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:29 PM PST
The Ticket - President Barack Obama on Wednesday dismissed oil as "the fuel of the past" as he made an unapologetic election-year pitch for his alternative energy industry policies and sniped at Republicans over painfully high gasoline prices. "They get out on the campaign trail—and you and I both know there are no quick fixes to this problem—but [...] Full Story | Top |
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes on Iran war drums
Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:09 PM PST
The Envoy - "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart turned his comedic attention Tuesday to the not-so-funny subject increasingly preoccupying Washington: the looming possibility of an Israeli military confrontation with Iran. Stewart played peacemaker in the segment, urging the not-yet-warring parties to brush off some of the more heated threats coming from the respective capitals, which he attributed to [...] Full Story | Top |
Lottery winner on food stamps even after $1 million jackpot
Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:17 PM PST
The Sideshow - UPDATE: The Michigan Department of Human Services announced yesterday that they have taken Amanda Clayton off the Michigan Bridge Card program. Original story begins below. ********** People love stories about someone winning the lottery and then giving the money away. They're less likely to feel fondly about Amanda Clayton, who won $1 million in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Apple's new iPad unveiled: We're in a 'post-PC revolution,' says CEO Tim Cook
Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PST
The Cutline - Apple unveiled the third version of the iPad tablet on Wednesday with its familiar charade: A casually dressed chief executive in front of an enormous screen, boasting gargantuan sales figures for the last generation of devices and then immediately rendering those obsolete by announcing a new one. CEO Tim Cook, who replaced the late founder [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama eyeing iPad3—'assuming there is a new one'
Wed,7 Mar 2012 11:24 AM PST
The Ticket - "Avid" iPad user President Barack Obama has access to the world's finest spy technology—but even the White House was in the dark about Apple's hotly anticipated next generation of the hugely popular tablet, his spokesman said Wednesday. Asked whether Obama coveted the latest iPad, press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One: "He [...] Full Story | Top |
Pentagon chiefs say U.S. should not act alone in Syria
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:36 AM PST
The Envoy - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and top general Martin Dempsey, testifying to the Senate Armed Services panel Wednesday, cautioned that military intervention in Syria would be a risky and very complicated endeavor, but said it's a future possibility. But they stressed that the United States should not act alone. Facing tough questions from Sen. John McCain [...] Full Story | Top |
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