Your Alarm Clock Could Be Making You Fat [Science]

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People make all kinds of excuses for being a little overweight. But a new study suggests that tensions between our biological clocks and enforced working hours could be making us all pile on the pounds

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Mark Shuttleworth is Passionate About Canonical, Patents, and Space

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Mark Shuttleworth is the founder and former CEO of Canonical , the commercial company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Today he holds the position “Lead Product Design”, a role in which he shapes desktop and cloud product strategy. I spoke with him recently by phone about the increasing role of Linux in the enterprise, and the shift from traditional enterprise computing to cloud computing.

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EveryMove Nabs $2.6M From Blue Cross, BuddyTV Co-founder To Help You Reduce Health Costs

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EveryMove , an alum of TechStars’ Seattle accelerator program building what they’ve dubbed a “mileage plan for health benefits, today announced that it has closed a $2.6 million round of series A financing. Participating investors include Penera Blue Cross, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Nebraska, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Founders Co-op, Summit Capital, Jonathan Sposato, Voyager Capital Partner Geoff Entress, Matt Shobe, William Lohse, BuddyTV Co-founder Andy Liu, Ken Kuntz, and others.

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Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer

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Editor’s Note:  TechCrunch  columnist  Semil Shah  currently works at  Votizen  and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter  @semil Location, location, location. Whether you’re a real estate agent, a traveler, or building mobile applications, location matters a great deal

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Yahoo CEO apologizes — for being a distraction

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Scott Thompson has apologized to his fellow Yahoos — but it’s not the kind of apologia that closes the books. No explanation (yet) of how the Yahoo CEO wound up in a situation where his educational credentials are distracting folks inside and out, though, only a mea culpa for causing a fuss. In a staff e-mail Monday posted by AllThingsD, Thompson stressed that a board investigation is ongoing, said he was cooperating and added: In the meantime, I want you to know how deeply I regret how this issue has affected the company and all of you

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Track 8 Music Player Brings Microsoft’s Beautiful Metro Design to iPad [Video]

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People tend think of Macs as the "creative" computer and Windows as the "business" computer, but those lines have blurred for years. System administrators figured out how to support iPhones for enterprise email; Windows Phone looks great from a design perspective; and have you noticed that Apple doesn't even ship a basic image editor anymore, and yet Microsoft remembers to include MS Paint?

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What Should Joss Whedon Do Next? [Poll]

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Photo via Wikimedia Commons After years of toiling in the darkness, with only his true adherents knowing the unlimited bounds of his genius, Joss Whedon has stepped into the light and become the master of Hollywood, creating what is one of the greatest superhero movies of all time, and starting the summer off with a resounding smash. Between Avengers and Cabin in the Woods , his star is shining brightly right now, and he’s in that magic place, professionally, where he can do pretty much whatever he wants to next. So, what should he do?

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Geek Fitness Week: Let Fitness for Geeks Be Your User Manual

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Welcome to Geek Fitness Week! Getting in shape isn’t just for the contributors of jockdad.com . I think there’s this misconception that geeks are just sitting around with an X-Large drink in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other as we read our game manuals or watch our favorite shows. But I’d argue that this couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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The Era Of The Porn Superstar Might Be Coming (Hah!) To A End

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The Internet is a lot like the American Dream. It’s this huge opportunity for anyone who wants to make something of themselves — a nearly ubiquitous platform to showcase skills and talents. Yet, it is so incredibly saturated with people trying to do exactly the same thing that the opportunity gets smaller and smaller, shrinking to the size of a pin point as more people hop online

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Rhyming & Stealing: Let’s honor late Beastie with better copyright laws

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Hip-hop icon Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys passed on Friday, leaving a legacy of advocacy and great music. The albums of Yauch and his band taught suburban kids about malt liquor and dust , but were also a wizardly pastiche of music and culture — from Sly & the Family Stone to Mr. Ed to Alfred E

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