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The adjustment, which was made by International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, was necessary to keep atomic clocks in line with the Earth's ever-changing speed of rotation. Dozens of leap seconds have been added since their introduction in 1972.
One of the sites affected by the bug was the popular link-sharing site more
The occasional program on the Food Network can be quite frightening.
There's "Outrageous Food", for example, where you can watch people build a 105-pound burger in Clinton, N.J.
However, please place yourself inside the stomach of 18-year-old Stephanie Milan as she sat at home watching the Food Network and was overtaken by a harsh queasiness.
For her door was broken down and in walked a SWAT team, which was not in the mood to make her a burrito.
The Evansville Courier-Press offers that the ingredients of this raid were somewhat confused.
The SWAT team was looking for computer more
Can we agree that humanity is pickled?
Our politics are an embarrassment. Our economies stink far more pungently than a full trash can in 100-degree humidity. And our inter-personal relations are so lifeless that they are enacted without bothering to meet face-to-face.
So along comes Google, looks at the state of the world today and says: "What a sorry, irrational mess. We just can't let these sorts of humans dominate our culture. It just looks bad in the third-eyes of our alien friends."
Unlike so many corporate beings who bury their heads in the sand and simply accumulate money more
A startup with seed money from the likes of Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter, and Oprah Winfrey hopes to create a successful mashup of a professional and crowdsourced news network, a social-media site like Twitter, and a video hub like YouTube.
"There are practical solutions to [create] more jobs, lower crime, [provide] better education," #waywire co-founder and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker told TechCrunch. "If more people could find their voice and be part of the national dialogue, we could solve these problems."
#waywire, which plans to officially announce its $more
An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail.
Facebook users say contacts' e-mail addresses on phones and personal devices have been altered without their consent -- and their e-mail communication is being redirected elsewhere, and lost.
One very angry user is Adobe employee Rachel Luxemburg.
On her personal blog she writes,
Today, a co-worker discovered that his contact info for me had been silently updated to overwrite my work e-mail address with my Facebook e-mail address. Hemore
The big event at every Google I/O conference is the Oprah moment, when the keynoter tells the throngs of developers what gear they'll be taking home. That's when the audience usually goes wild. And so they did again this year, when developers heard they'd be taking home three shiny Google devices -- two of them so new you can't even buy them yet. A fourth gizmo was added during the second-day keynote.
With the focus so much on the new toys, it sometimes feels like Google is shifting its focus to hardware, more
Get ready for another wave of round-the-clock analysis over Facebook's business.
The company today set July 26 as the day it will release its first earnings report since going public May 18, according to a note posted on Facebook's investor relations page.
Facebook will report earnings for its second quarter. The company posted $1.6 billion in revenue for its first quarter -- a report it put out during the run-up to its IPO -- and net income of $205 million, which was down 12 percent from the year-earlier quarter.
The stock, as you can see from the more
LinkedIn said that the change follows a decision by Twitter to get stricter about APIs, effectively ending a practice that had existed the last two-and-a-half years. You'll still be able to broadcast LinkedIn updates to Twitter. Just not the other way around. Sweet -- if you're Twitter, that is.
Writing about the new policy, Twitter's Michael Sippey said this was part of a larger effort to ensure that "the core Twitter consumption experience" includes "a consistent set of products and tools."more
Following Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference and iOS 6 announcements, as well Microsoft's surprise Surface tablet, Google had tough acts to follow at its Google I/O conference this week. But the company didn't disappoint its audience of 5,500 developers packed into San Francisco's Moscone Center.
In the video above, CNET's Stephen Shankland breaks down Google's array of product introductions and the action-film stunts that accompanied Google co-founder Sergey Brin's presentation on Google Glass.
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Beats, the maker of the high-end headphones that have become a status symbol, is finally ready to disclose that it is acquiring digital music service MOG, according to sources familiar with the deal.
The deal could be announced any day, the sources said. Financial terms weren't available.
CNET first reported that MOG was for sale in February and AllThingsD reported three weeks later that Beats was amid an acquisition of the service, which had been a back-of-the-pack subscription music service for years.
"There's nothing to confirm at this time," said a Beats spokeswoman. Representatives from MOG were not more
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