No More Beating Around The Bush At Yahoo: Thompson Is Out, Levinsohn In As CEO, Effective Immediately

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Well, after days and days of nothing, suddenly things are moving at a fast clip.

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Facebook’s delicate balance between profits and privacy

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In less than a week, the financial world is going to witness Facebook drive one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. It will make its investors stinking rich and have techies espousing the transformative power of the web and social media.

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This Man Must Be the Saddest Scientist In the World [Science]

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This is Professor John Mainstone, from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He's the custodian of the longest running science experiment in the history of the world

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Quantum Object Teleported 100 Kilometers by Chinese Scientists [Physics]

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Though quantum teleportation has existed for well over 10 years, it has never actually happened at a distance that would be of any use to people in the real world. But for the first time, Chinese researchers were able to teleport a quantum object nearly 100 kilometers, ramping up the real world applications for the idea.

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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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New shear touch technology lets you skip a double-tap, push your device around (video)

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Most every touchscreen in the market today can only register your finger input as coordinates; that's fine for most uses, but it leads to a lot of double-taps and occasionally convoluted gestures .

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Obese Mothers Give Birth to Less Intelligent Children [Science]

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Not all people are born equal.

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You Shouldn’t Put Water on Your Cereal, Says Science [Food]

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Researchers from Pontificia University Católica in Santiago, Chile, have determined with cold hard science that milk is definitively superior to water, as far as cereal liquids go. More

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We May Absorb 60 Dark Matter Particles an Hour [Space]

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WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are a theoretical class of matter that are suspected of being the elusive "dark matter" that presumably constitutes 80 percent of the Universe. A new study by University of Michigan suggests that these phantom particles might strike our bodies once every minute.

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The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea [Video]

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If you're looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie, or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night.

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