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Worker 'Moving Equipment' Plunged 6M Into Darkness
(Newser) - Power company officials believe a worker moving a piece of monitoring equipment in an Arizona utility substation likely turned off the lights yesterday for a massive 6 million customers stretching through southern California and Mexico. "This was not a deliberate act. The employee was just switching out a piece... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Meteorites Brought Gold to Earth
(Newser) - You can thank meteorites for most of the gold in Earth's crust, reports the BBC . In fact, 22 billion billion tons of asteroid material that showered our planet 3.9 billion years ago were responsible for the gold, platinum, and other precious metals there (and, by extrapolation, for Glenn... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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'Sensual' Phones Kiss, Cuddle
(Newser) - Here's a cell phone that's got your number. A new prototype for a "sensuous" phone will blow on your neck, coo and even kiss. In pursuit of more "emotional" and "sensory" phones, a designer at the Berlin University of the Arts has come up with... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Back From the Future, Nike Releases Genuine Air Mags
(Newser) - They're the most famous shoes never made—until now. They're the Nike Air Mags, the LED-covered high-tops Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part II. Now, as Gizmodo gushes , they can be yours for a limited time ... for the right price. Nike has made just 1,... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Apeman Fossil May Be Missing Link
(Newser) - At long, long last have scientists finally found the "missing link" connecting human-like apes to the first human? A South African researcher is convinced he may have tracked down the creature after an exhaustive examination of the partial skeletons of a young female adult and a male child of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Google Electricity Use: Enough for 200K Homes
(Newser) - So how much juice does it take for Google to power all its searches and servers, not to mention email and YouTube? Lots, as in 2.3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2010, reports the San Jose Mercury News . That's enough for about 200,000 houses. The company... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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NASA Clip Shows 9/11 From Space
(Newser) - As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, NASA has provided a stunning new look at the tragedy—which was visible all the way from the International Space Station. American astronaut Frank Culbertson and two Russians were orbiting the earth in the ISS when they caught video of smoke... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Good Luck Finding a New CEO, Yahoo
(Newser) - Yahoo’s dismissal of Carol Bartz has left Peter Lauria of Reuters with a question: “Why would anyone want to be Yahoo’s CEO?” The place has become a career death trap, with past CEOs like Bartz, Jerry Yang, and Terry Semel emerging with bruised reputations. “They are... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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For My Hyper 7-Year-Old: Coffee
(Newser) - What do you do when your kid can’t sit still—but you’re concerned about the side effects of Ritalin? One mom offers an unusual remedy that goes against standard medical advice: Give the youngster coffee, she writes at the Stir blog at Cafe Mom . Christie Haskell didn’t... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Amazon Agrees to Charge California Sales Tax
(Newser) - Amazon made a surprising move last night: It gave in and agreed to charge sales tax in California next year. The online retailer announced it had reached a deal with the state in which it would stop fighting a new law that would force it to collect sales tax in... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Odds of a Double-Dip? Probably 50-50 Now
(Newser) - Bleak reading for the White House ahead of the president's jobs speech : David Leonhardt of the New York Times thinks the odds of a double-dip recession have spiked of late and might be around 50-50 now. The US had been putt-putting along in what looked to be a modest... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Yahoo's Ex-CEO: They 'F--ked Me Over'
(Newser) - Carol Bartz is not beating around the bushes when it comes to her dismissal from Yahoo . “These people fucked me over,” she told Fortune Tuesday, in her first interview since the ouster. Bartz says that when she made a scheduled call to Chairman Roy Bostock, he began reading... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Google Buys Zagat Guide
(Newser) - We’re going to bet that Yelp is pretty upset right now, because Google took what looks to be a big step into its turf today by acquiring Zagat to bolster its location offerings, Mashable reports. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Local, Maps, and Location services, announced the deal... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Appeals Court Tosses Virginia ObamaCare Lawsuits
(AP) - A federal appeals court in Virginia has dismissed two lawsuits that had claimed President Obama's health care overhaul was unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was issued today by a three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. It is the second appellate court ruling affirming the government's... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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FBI Descends on Solyndra
(Newser) - In the wake of last week’s shocking bankruptcy filing by solar firm Solyndra, FBI agents descended on the company headquarters with search warrants today. An FBI spokesperson tells NBC News the investigation is at the request of the inspector general of the Department of Energy. Congress demanded a hearing... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Ben & Jerry's Actually Making Schweddy Balls
(Newser) - It seemed like it had to be a joke , but it turns out it's just based on one: Ben & Jerry's is indeed making a flavor in tribute to Alec Baldwin's raunchy "Schweddy Balls" skit on SNL, reports NPR, which was itself skewered for its famously... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Feds Nab 91 in $295M Medicare Fraud Sting
(Newser) - The Obama administration notched yet another win for its Medicare fraud team yesterday, as the Justice Department announced the arrests of 91 fraudsters from across the country, accused of bilking Uncle Sam for a combined $295 million. “The defendants allegedly treated the Medicare program like a personal piggy bank,... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Weight Watchers Actually Works
(Newser) - Science has confirmed it: Weight Watchers is no fad diet. A new study—the first randomized controlled trial to compare a commercial program like Weight Watchers with weight loss care from a doctor—found that overweight patients who go on Weight Watchers lose about twice as much weight as those... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Tropical Storms Nate, Maria Form
(Newser) - Irene, Katia, and Lee all made not-so-nice headlines, and unfortunately there’s more where they came from: Tropical Storms Nate and Maria are currently taking shape in the Caribbean and Atlantic. Nate, formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico, is expected to drop anywhere from 2 to 8 inches of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 9, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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