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Blue Marble 2012: NASA Releases High Definition Image Of Earth (PHOTO)
NASA on Wednesday released "Blue Marble 2012," a view of the home planet that the agency calls the "most amazing high definition image of Earth."
Unlike the original Blue Marble -- the iconic 1972 photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew while they were on their way to the moon -- this composite image is made from data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite. -
Three Types of People to Fire Immediately - Businessweek
Want a more innovative company? Get rid of these folks. Today
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Cisco Linksys RE1000 Wireless-N Extender Reviewed - SmallNetBuilder
People with crappy wireless coverage are suckers for products that promise to fix what ails them. "High power" routers are one cure and wireless repeaters, like the Cisco Linksys RE1000 that I'm looking at today are another. Repeaters can help get some sort of wireless signal into dead spots. But due to the way they work, you shouldn't expect high throughput (more on that shortly).
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Acquisition Investigations Drag On, Losses Mount at Motorola | PCWorld Business Center
Losses grew at Motorola in the fourth quarter as regulatory investigations into its proposed acquisition by Google drag on, legal battles pile up and competition grows.
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BBC News - FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks.
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BBC News - Five dead in Rio de Janeiro building collapse
The bodies of five people have been recovered by rescue workers searching through rubble after the collapse of three multi-storey buildings in Rio de Janeiro.
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At the heart of so much of Japanese cooking is the fragrant broth called dashi. And at the heart of dashi are the delicate pink petals of katsuobushi, shaved flakes of dried bonito fish.
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Egypt Blocks Departure of US NGO Workers | News | English
Egyptian authorities are preventing several U.S. citizens from leaving the country because of ongoing investigations into the work of civil society groups supporting the country's legislative elections.
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Diabetes patients improve quickly with monthly care - latimes.com
Diabetics who receive regularly scheduled monthly care to learn how to improve their health have a more rapid recovery compared with similar patients who receive only sporadic healthcare visits, according to new research.
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Did Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer disrespect President Obama? (+video) - CSMonitor.com
Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama got into a little tiff at the airport in Phoenix yesterday, if you haven’t heard. Governor Brewer was waiting at the bottom of the steps when Obama alighted from Air Force One. She handed him a letter, they started talking, and things quickly got, well , out of hand. According to photos from the scene, at one point Brewer appears to be waving her finger in Obama’s face.
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How Google keeps your secrets private - Jan. 26, 2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- How does a company that collects so much information from its users keep all that data private?
Meet Alma Whitten, Google's director of privacy.
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At the end of a miserable 2010 filled with privacy blunders including the disastrous Google Buzz fiasco, Google appointed Whitten to the position of privacy director. Since then, Whitten has instituted what she calls a "culture of privacy" at the company. So far it has been paying off.
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