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Jobs' Death Boosts Mock Turtleneck Sales
(Newser) - In an odd, somewhat bittersweet tribute to Steve Jobs' influence, sales of mock turtlenecks surged yesterday. No, this isn't an Onion headline , although it is a TMZ headline. A rep for clothing line St. Croix, which apparently makes the black mock turtlenecks Jobs was famous for wearing, tells the... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Arts & Living.
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Steve Jobs OKed Bio So His Kids Could 'Know Him'
(Newser) - Steve Jobs authorized a biography of himself so his four kids could "know him," author Walter Isaacson reveals in Time . "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why, and to understand what I did," Jobs told Isaacson in their final... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Palin Dithered to Milk Voters: Stewart
(Newser) - Why did Sarah Palin wait so long to finally announce she's not running for president? Money. John Stewart guffaws at Palin's jaw-dropping claim that she's just a low-key, little 'ol me quietly declaring that she's not going to stump for the top job after all—... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Google Bosses Not Using Google+
(Newser) - The top layer of management at Google doesn't seem to have warmed to to Google+, blogs Michael Degusta at the understatement . Out of the company's top 18 execs, only two can be considered active users of the social networking service, he finds. Five others are minimal users, including... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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First Lady Aims for Jumping Jack Record
(Newser) - Michelle Obama is looking for at least 20,425 people to help her break a Guinness World Record next week. The first lady will lead hundreds of children doing a minute of jumping jacks on the White House's South Lawn on Tuesday, kicking off a 24-hour challenge, AP reports.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Malady of the Cell-Obsessed: 'Text Neck'
(Newser) - Texting is turning out to be a real pain in the neck. Dedicated texters are spending so much time with their heads bent over their cell phones or iPads that it's causing muscle strain, creating headaches, neck and back pain, and even problems with fingers and wrists, warn doctors... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, .
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Medical Panel to Men: Skip Prostate Screening
(Newser) - A potentially big change in men's health care: A governmental health panel is about to recommend that men stop getting screened for prostate cancer, reports CNN . The Preventative Services Task Force has concluded that the commonly used PSA blood test often does more harm than good because it leads... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Weekend Meteor Shower Could Be Meteor Storm
(Newser) - It's like a space tease: The normally tame Draconid meteor shower is expected to be unusually intense on Saturday, but viewers in North America look to be largely out of luck. As of now, the shower is expected to peak in daylight hours from 3 to 5pm ET, though... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Let's Calm Down About Steve Jobs
(Newser) - The tributes to Steve Jobs have taken on a "quasi-religious tone," writes Hamilton Nolan, who suggests it's time to dial things back a notch or two. Jobs' death is "certainly a devastating loss" to his family, his friends, and his company, writes Nolan at Gawker . As... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Poop-Powered Bike to Tour Japan
(Newser) - Calling it “clean” fuel would be a bit of a stretch: Japan’s top toilet maker has built a bike that runs on human excrement. TOTO’s Toilet Bike Neo has a seat that looks like a toilet, and it’s powered by bio-gas from the driver’s own... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Full-Body Prosthetic Could Allow Paralyzed to Walk
(Newser) - If an international team of neuroscientists, engineers, and physiologists has its way, a quadriplegic will open the 2014 World Cup—by striding out onto the field. The team is working on a "prosthetic exoskeleton," a full-body device that would allow those who have been paralyzed to walk again.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Steve Jobs: A Legacy Like No Other
(Newser) - Steve Jobs wasn't the Thomas Edison or Henry Ford of his time, but some future American business visionary may be known as the Steve Jobs of his time, writes Michael Hiltzik. Jobs—a "master of bare-knuckled business strategies from the old school"—wasn't known as an... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Elderly Stunningly Likely to Have Surgery in Final Year
(Newser) - Elderly patients are stunningly likely to have surgery in the last year, month, or even week of their lives, according to a new study from Harvard researchers, who looked at 1.8 million Medicare recipients over the age of 65 who died in 2008. According to publicly available records, nearly... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Mortgage Rates Drop Below 4% for First Time
(AP) - The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage this week fell below 4% for the first time ever, to 3.94%. And mortgage rates could fall even further now that the Federal Reserve plans to reshuffle its portfolio of securities to try and lower long-term rates. Freddie Mac said the... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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White House Almost Gave Solyndra Another Loan
(Newser) - Just days after Solyndra received its $535 million government-backed loan in September 2009 it applied for another one—this time for a mere $469 million—and the Energy Department put that request on a fast-tracked priority list, sources tell the Washington Post . The department was still seriously considering the request... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Jobs' Cancer Ran Predictable Course: Doctors
(Newser) - The rare form of pancreatic cancer that killed Steve Jobs ran a predictable course, experts tell the Wall Street Journal . While 80% of the 40,000 Americans who get pancreatic cancer annually die within a year of their diagnosis, Jobs had a neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor, a type that accounts for... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, .
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Steve Jobs a Man of 'Stunning Breadth'
(Newser) - Steve Jobs "was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford," writes tech guru Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal ; but, more than that, he was also a man of "stunning breadth" who loved to talk about his "sweeping ideas... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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BofA CEO: We Have a Right to Make a Profit
(Newser) - Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan defended his bank’s controversial new $5 debit card fee in a CNBC interview yesterday, saying that most customers would avoid it, and that the bank had given customers plenty of warning about it. Asked to respond to President Obama’s statement that banks... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Cops Beat, Mace Protesters at Occupy Wall Street Rally
(Newser) - The Occupy Wall Street movement staged its biggest demonstration yet yesterday, with thousands marching from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to Foley Square near City Hall. Their ranks were bolstered by students, workers, and members of more than 30 unions, DNAinfo reports. But the night also saw things get ugly... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 7, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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