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In one of those things that make you say “HOLY CRAP!”, Microsoft has offered to buy the ailing Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. BBC: “The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to…
...Read MoreBritney Spears has once again been rushed to the hospital this time amidst rumors of an attempted suicide. ABC News:: “A phalanx of motorcycles, a pair of police cruisers and two helicopters descended on her Studio City home around 1 a.m. The Los Angeles Times reported the 26-year-old was removed from her home and placed…
...Read MoreFollowing on the heels of Facebook who opened the door for developers to begin making widgets and programs to work on the Facebook platform last October, MySpace has announced their own developer platform will go live next week letting potentially thousands of developers begin writing code people will be able to use on their Myspace…
...Read MoreIn one of the biggest downsizings since the dot.com bust Yahoo has announced plans to lay off about 1000 of it’s 14,300 employees. Columbian.com: “The Sunnyvale-based company disclosed the upcoming 7 percent reduction in its 14,300-employee work force Tuesday while reviewing a 23 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit and a cautious 2008 outlook. The bad…
...Read MoreDo you believe everything you read on Wikipedia? You wouldn’t if you knew who was changing what. Recently Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith did a little sleuthing and uncovered some very scary data on who is editing articles on Wikipedia and what they are changing. Griffith created a searchable database tying…
...Read MoreA New York company has developed what they hope to be the next generation tattoo ink that makes the popular body embellishment removable with only 1 laster treatment instead of the current 6-7. Discovery News: The process starts with pigments free of heavy metals and other toxins that can induce an allergic reaction or produce…
...Read MoreCanonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is looking to capture the business market by releasing a tool to administrate servers and desktop machines across a broad network. This is the first time a Linux distributor has sought to directly infiltrate the office environment largely held by Microsoft. ArsTechnica: “Landscape makes it possible…
...Read MoreResearchers now believe that they can reliably spot “tells” that a child is autistic as early as 14 months in some children but are still stumped by children who regress from normal to autisic behavior. USATODAY.com: “Children with autism can be identified as early as 14 months old, the youngest age at which the disorder…
...Read MoreSo it looks like Linspire, provider of bargain basement PC operating systems, and Microsoft, provider of…a home for malware and viruses (how nice of them), have teamed up and inked a deal similar to the one Microsoft and Novell signed. Strange thing is, Microsoft is again offering Linspire users the “guarantee” they can’t be sued…
...Read MoreA rash of recent big foot sightings in rural India is prompting authorities to investigate. What makes these sightings different is almost all have been within the last month. Discovery Channel: “The bizarre sightings have been made in the Garo hills area of Meghalaya state, close to the borders with Bangladesh and Bhutan, with villagers…
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