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Google Faces The Slickest Click Fraud Yet

Seeded on Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:25 AM EST (Forbes)

Then Edelman says the TrafficSolar owners infect Web surfers' machines with spyware through a common cybercriminal tactic, exploiting a security vulnerability in either Windows XP or Internet Explorer when the user visits a popular, compromised Web site.

google, technology, security, gap, expedia, click-fraud, finishline, trafficsolar, pop-up-window, unsuspecting-shoppers

Google, Bing duke it out, leave Yahoo in dust

Seeded on Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:48 AM EST (CNN)

Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google.

google, yahoo, technology, microsoft, fortune-500, msft, bing, online-search-leader

Roy Disney, Nephew of Walt Disney, Dies

Seeded on Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:21 PM EST (TIME)

The Walt Disney Co. says Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney who became a powerful behind-the-scenes influence on the family business, has died. He was 79. The company announced that Disney died Wednesday in Newport Beach after a bout with stomach cancer.

entertainment, walt-disney, michael-eisner, roy-disney, roy-o-disney, the-walt-disney-co, disney-shareholder

Iceberg half the size of the Isle of Wight spotted drifting south of Australia

Seeded on Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:25 AM EST (the Mail online)

An iceberg nearly 87 square miles in size and weighing 200 billion tonnes is drifting towards Australia. The whopping ice slab, which is nearly twice the size of Hong Kong - or half the size of the Isle of Wight - was picked up using satellite imagery.

hong-kong, australia, world-news, satellite-imagery, icebergs, isle-of-wight

President Obama says spare bailout funds can be redirected

Seeded on Wed Dec 9, 2009 2:10 AM EST (USA Today)

Facing record job losses and record budget deficits, President Obama proposed a series of steps Tuesday that he said could reduce pink slips and red ink simultaneously. The president urged Congress to cut taxes and increase loan guarantees for small businesses, speed up highway …

politics, obama, bailout, budget-deficit, pink-slips, president-obama, bailout-funds

Ancient Animals Fled to Antarctica to Escape Warming : Discovery News

Seeded on Thu Dec 3, 2009 10:24 AM EST (Discovery.com)

Antarctica served as a climatic refuge for animals during the world's largest known, and probably global warming-fueled, mass extinction event, according to new research that focused on one scrappy survivor.

global-warming, science, antarctica, escape-warming, mass-extinction-event, kombuisia-antarctica, the-permian

Large Hadron Collider Makes History With 1.18 Tev Protons

Seeded on Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:37 AM EST (Discovery.com)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has made history and become most powerful particle accelerator on the planet.

science, cern, particle-accelerator, lhc, large-hadron-collider, most-powerful-particle-accelerator

New picture proves White House gatecrashers DID meet Obama

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:11 AM EST (the Mail online)

White House aides were forced into an embarrassing U-turn after it emerged a couple who gatecrashed Barack Obama's first state dinner did get to meet the President. Secret Service aides initially insisted the President was never in danger because of the security breach that allo …

white-house, politics, barack-obama, michaele-salahi, tareq-salahi, white-house-aides, first-state-dinner

The hidden meaning of the hidden Starbucks logo

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:55 AM EST (Reuters)

Last week, Roy Street Coffee and Tea, located at the corners of Roy Street and Broadway in Seattle, opened.

reuters, starbucks, world-news, stealth-starbucks, not-starbucks-starbucks, brand-crisis

America's Growing Sewage Problem

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:56 AM EST (Discovery.com)

It's an open secret now that the Clean Water Act of 1972, a paragon of anti-water pollution legislation, is failing our country.

epa, science, wildlife, water-supply, toxic-pollutants, pharmaceuticals, bisphenol-a, the-american-people, clean-water-act-of-1972, cigarette-butts

Thirty Women Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:17 PM EST (Forbes)

Twitter has been an incredible tool for connecting with like-minded people from around the world. I am always on the lookout for women entrepreneurs and women in business to follow, connect with and learn from.

technology, twitter, thirty-women-entrepreneurs, to-follow-on-twitter, shellykramer

Every Star in the Sky, in One Picture

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:50 PM EST (ABC News)

Axel Mellinger says that by the age of 12, he was in love with night.

space, physics, science, astronomy, milky-way, axel-mellinger, physics-professor, photographic-panorama

Google Bans Scammy Advertisers From Network

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:28 AM EST (Consumerist)

At last, someone has taken a stand against the tooth whitener ad menace. It's no tiny or obscure ad network: it's Google.

google, technology, ban-advertisers, scammy-advertisers, dont-be-evil-motto

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:38 AM EST (Telegraph)

Here's what the Times has had to say on the subject: E-mails allegedly written by some of the world's leading climate scientists have been stolen by hackers and published on websites run by climate change sceptics. The sceptics claim that the e-mails are evidence that scien …

world-news, climatic-research-unit, climategate, world-s-leading-climate-scientists

How to kill a lobster with kindness

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:31 AM EST (the Mail online)

The way that lobsters are cooked causes concern to many chefs and animal-lovers alike - not to mention the unfortunate crustacean itself. Traditionally, it is dropped alive into a pan of boiling water, where it emits a shrieking noise as it takes several minutes to die. But a …

odd-news, shellfish, crustacean, lobsters, crabs, langoustines, crustastun, simon-buckhaven

Wave of Debt Payments Facing US Government

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:00 AM EST (The New York Times)

WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.

politics, us-government, national-debt, debt-payments, ious, ultralow-interest-rates, treasury-official

Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'

Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:41 AM EST (Telegraph)

The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945. His task was to carry out experiments to discover by wh …

brazil, argentina, adolf-hitler, world-news, paraguay, josef-mengele, candido-godoi, nazi-angel-of-death, nazi-master-race

Large Hadron Collider progress delights researchers

Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:41 AM EST (BBC News)

Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) say they are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted on Friday. One official said the collider had done more in a few hours than it did in nine days of operations last year. The LHC is being used to sma …

progress, science, the-universe, lhc, large-hadron-collider, delights-researchers

After Space Shuttle, Who'll Have a Ticket to Ride?

Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:22 AM EST (Discovery.com)

The simmering debate over the future direction of our nation's human space flight program hit even more air turbulence over the past couple weeks.

white-house, space-shuttle, nasa, science, space-flight, future-space-flight, space-flight-program

Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:36 PM EST (TechCrunch)

Digg continues to grow, claiming 20 million visitors per month and an increasing amount of mainstream attention. But as traffic to Digg has grown, the incentive to "game" the site to get stories to the home page has also increased.

technology, digg, transparency, kevin-rose, top-digg-users

Chase Accidentally Sells Couple's Home

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:15 PM EST (http://www.kpho.com/)

Despite being up-to-date on their modified mortgage payments, a Valley couple found Chase foreclosing on their home.

business, taxes, chase, mortgage, chase-foreclosing, modified-mortgage-payments

The Great War in Colour

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:56 AM EST (Environmental Graffiti)

On this day, ninety-one years ago, the guns that raged over the battlefields of Europe for more than four years fell silent.

history, the-great-war, battlefields-of-europe, industrial-scale

Funny Or Die links up with YouTube

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:51 AM EST (TechRadar: All Phone and communications feeds)

YouTube has announced it is to partner Will Ferrell's comedy website Funny Or Die, offering up a channel featuring a boatload of the site's comedic content.

entertainment, google, will-ferrell, youtube, adam-mckay, funny-or-die, comedy-website

Laser-Powered Robot Climbs to Victory in the Space-Elevator Contest

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:35 PM EST (discovermagazine.com)

A laser-powered robot took a climb up a cable in the Mohave Desert in Wednesday, and pushed ahead the sci-fi inspired notion of a space elevator capable of lifting astronauts, cargo, and even tourists up into orbit.

technology, nasa, seattle, space-elevator, mohave-desert, laser-powered-robot, lasermotive, space-elevator-games

Dutch 'among lowest cannabis users'

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:42 AM EST ()

THE Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands' well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional study.

france, italy, spain, netherlands, world-news, the-dutch, eu-agency, the-czech-republic

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