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The Worst Celebrity Hairstyles From The '80s
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 06:44
The '80s brought us mullets, crimped looks, and heavy loads of hairspray. The bigger the better. While we may wish to forget some of the do's, some pulled off hair-raising styles. Next week, National Geographic is airing...
Four Employees Fired After Coelho Middle School Students Denied Lunch
The Huffington Post - 8 Apr 2013 15:06
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) -- A food service company spokesman said Friday it has fired four employees after about two dozen students at a Massachusetts middle school were denied lunches this week because their prepaid meal a...
Apple To Reveal New Mac Pro Revamp This Month
Ubergizmo - 8 Apr 2013 23:19
Apple is expected to reveal a revamp of Mac Pro. The company's desktop offering was last updated in June 2012 with new processors and greater RAM. Many essentials such as Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and Serial ATA were not incl...
HP to customize Moonshot offerings, offer ARM and Xeon chips
PC World - 8 Apr 2013 23:25
Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon processors. HP on Monday started shipping the first offering in its new class...
Amid Wrigley rumblings, Cubs drop home opener to Brewers
Chicago Tribune - 8 Apr 2013 23:50Tar Sands Oils May Be More Dangerous In Pipelines Than Crude Oil
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:57
An oil flood through an Arkansas subdivision on March 29 is just the most recent example of pipeline problems in the U.S. In recent weeks, months and years diesel has leaked from a pipeline into wetlands near Salt Lake C...
How Ex-CEO Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse (JCP)
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:24
JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson is out of the company, according to CNBC, after just 17 months on the job. His Q4 2012 was probably the worst quarterly performance ever in the history of major retail: same-store sales were down...
News Summary: Stocks edge higher ahead of earnings
Miami Herald - 8 Apr 2013 23:36
EARNINGS LOOM: Stocks made modest gains as investors waited for the first quarter earnings period to start. Alcoa, the first member of the Dow Jones industrial average to release results, reported a larger first-quarter ...
Watch A Fighter Jet Pilot Do Tricks In A Boeing Dreamliner
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:35
Boeing's Dreamliner 787 has been out of service since January, when the FAA grounded it after the battery systems in two planes failed in quick succession. While the batteries may not be up to par, the 787 is capable of ...
Roger Ebert's Final Movie Review
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:55
Roger Ebert passed away Thursday at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Sunday, The Chicago Sun Times published his final film review to his web site. Jim Emerson, who edits Ebert's site, tweeted the review of Terren...
Healthy Chocolate? Researchers May Have Cracked the Code
Time - 8 Apr 2013 23:50
Healthy Chocolate? Researchers May Have Cracked the Code
Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting
TechCrunch - 8 Apr 2013 23:49
Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 a...
Ron Johnson Was Guaranteed A $150 Million Payout If He Was Fired Or Left On His Own
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:49
After a tumultuous run as CEO, Ron Johnson is officially out at JCPenney. And it looks like he got a huge chunk of change if he was fired or voluntarily resigned. According to the company's most recent SEC filings earlie...
JC Penney ousts CEO Ron Johnson
Miami Herald - 8 Apr 2013 23:45
J.C. Penney's board of directors has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 16 months on the job as a risky turnaround strategy backfired and led to massive losses and steep sales drops.
In One Of The Most Bizarre Outs You'll See, A Runner Avoids Home Plate And Slides Into The Catcher
Business Insider - 8 Apr 2013 23:42
With nobody out against the St. Louis Cardinals, Reds outfielder Chris Heisy was on third base when Brandon Phillips hit a hard groundball in his direction. But what happened next defies explanation. As Heisy broke for h...
JC Penney ousts CEO Ron Johnson
News Observer - 8 Apr 2013 23:37
J.C. Penney is naming Mike Ullman as its new CEO. He takes over from Ron Johnson, who is leaving the company.
Crowdfunding delays, SEC silence spark hostility on Capitol Hill
Washington Post - 8 Apr 2013 23:36
Already months behind schedule, federal regulators charged with establishing the rules to implement new online crowdfunding portals still cannot say when they will issue those guidelines. On Monday, the resulting frustra...
How to buy and sell Bitcoins -- Part 2: Practical
ZDNet - 8 Apr 2013 22:47
So you want to buy and sell Bitcoins, but how is it done? In the second part of this two-part series, I'll show you how to transfer money from your bank to a Bitcoin exchange, how to use your wallet, and how to buy real ...
First Texting While Flying Case Linked To Deadly Commercial Crash
Ubergizmo - 8 Apr 2013 22:11
Texting while driving may be two activities that we all can agree shouldn't mix, especially if you're driving a school bus or if you're double-texting with a baby and drugs in your vehicle. But we think texting while fly...
Berry Calls Pregnancy 'Biggest Surprise'
ABC News - 8 Apr 2013 21:41
Days after news broke that she's expecting a child with fiancé Olivier Martinez, Halle Berry calls her pregnancy "the biggest surprise of my life." In an interview posted today on CNN.com, Berry, showing off a tiny baby...
How to Upgrade Your iPhone to a Version Other Than the Latest (So You Can Still Jailbreak)
Life Hacker - 8 Apr 2013 15:30
If you haven't updated your iPhone in a long time but still want the benefits of jailbreaking, it might seem like you're out of luck because you can't jailbreak the newest version. Thankfully, it's easy enough to update ...
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain Has Died
The New York Times - 8 Apr 2013 14:08
Margaet Thatcher, a towering, divise and yet revered figure in British politics, who left an enduring impact on British politics died on Monday of a stroke, her family said.