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Westboro Announces Steve Jobs Protest— Via iPhone
(Newser) - Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket Steve Jobs' funeral, but apparently God also hates irony: Leader Margie Phelps announced the protest via a Twitter announcement made on an iPhone. "The irony here is almost unbelievable," notes Josh Wolford on Web Pro News . Jobs' sin? Phelps tweeted... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Tomas Transtromer
(Newser) - Better luck next year, Bob Dylan . Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer was today awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature. The AP calls the 80-year-old a "perennial favorite" to win, and notes that Swedish journalists regularly camp outside his apartment in Stockholm on the big day in anticipation of victory.... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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India Launches $35 Tablet
(Newser) - India has announced the world's cheapest tablet computer—just $60, or $35 with a student discount, reports Reuters . Called the "Aakash," or "sky," the tablet was developed by a small British company together with the Indian Institute of Technology, and is assembled in India. With... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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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 Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, .
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Civil Rights Hero Fred Shuttlesworth Dead at 89
(Newser) - Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, one of the most dynamic leaders of the civil rights movement, died yesterday at the age of 89, reports the Washington Post . Shuttlesworth survived bombing attempts, beatings, and dozens of arrests in his attempts to end segregation in the South, and was key in making nonviolence a... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Fans Worldwide Mourn Steve Jobs
(Newser) - Mac fans everywhere gathered online and at Apple stores offline last night, mourning the loss of Steve Jobs, reports the LA Times . There were flowers, memorabilia, and even a bagpipe player at the company headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., where the company flags flew at half-staff. At an Apple store in... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Earth-like Water Spotted on Comet
(Newser) - Most of the water that fills the world's oceans—and makes up more than half of the human body—may have started out as comets, not asteroids as current theories hold, according to new research. Scientists using the Herschel telescope found that unlike other comets studied, the comet Hartley... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Obama on Steve Jobs: 'World Has Lost a Visionary'
(Newser) - The death of Steve Jobs has brought tribute from politicians from across America, many of whom compare Jobs to the greatest geniuses in American history, Politico reports. President Obama: "The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Mark Zuckerberg: 'Steve, Thank You'
(Newser) - A fellow titan of the tech world salutes the late Steve Jobs : "Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend," writes Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook . "Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you." (Click for Bill Gates'... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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'I Will Miss Steve Immensely'
(Newser) - Bill Gates pays homage to Steve Jobs in a statement rounded up by AllThingsD . "Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives," writes the former Microsoft CEO. "The world rarely... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Steve Jobs Dead at 56
(Newser) - Steve Jobs is dead at 56 from pancreatic cancer. "Apple has lost a creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," says the company, which is collecting remembrances here . A sense of how the early coverage is going: Wall Street Journal : "Steven P.... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Tiger Woods Lands Deal With Rolex
(Newser) - Rolex has just signed the world's 51st-ranked golfer to an endorsement deal, a guy by the name of Tiger Woods. It's the first major deal for Woods since the scandal, though no terms were announced, reports the Wall Street Journal . (Safe to say it's probably more lucrative... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Favorite to Win Nobel for Literature Is ... Bob Dylan?
(Newser) - A lot of people are apparently pushing for Bob Dylan to win the Nobel for literature tomorrow. As far-fetched as it sounds, the British-based betting company Ladbrokes says the odds of Dylan winning have plunged from 100:1 to 5:1 in the last 24 hours, reports the Guardian . "... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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New iPhone's Siri Shows Real Promise
(Newser) - Much of the buzz around the iPhone 4S centers on its Siri voice-recognition system that Apple says makes the phone a virtual personal assistant. Some takes today: This could work: What's promising about Siri is that it addresses the long-running problems associated with voice recognition, writes Paul Miller at... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Your Electric Bill Is Going Up
(Newser) - The Daily Beast delivers some bad news after looking at the regulatory filings of utilities across the country: Electric rates are going up, and they won't be coming back down for a while. The problem is that the utilities have to make badly needed repairs to the nation's... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Don't Eat Baby Animals ... They Just Don't Taste Good
(Newser) - Josh Ozersky is a James Beard award-winning food writer, but he's no morality cop: In an essay for Time , he admits to eating our planet's wee creatures: "veal cutlets, suckling pigs, spring lambs, game hens." And he has come to terms with that. But he does... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Drunk Driving Down Due to... the Economy?
(Newser) - The good news: According to self-reported data, Americans are driving drunk less often. The bad news: It may not be because we're more responsible, but because ... we're broke. The CDC data shows that self-reported drunk driving among adults was down 30% from 161 million instances in 2006 to... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Arts & Living.
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IRS Cites 1982 Tax Code, Charges Pot Shop $2.5M
(Newser) - Bummer news for an Oakland marijuana dispensary that calls itself the world's largest: IRS auditors say it owes $2.5 million in back taxes for 2007 and 2008, a figure so high it may force Harborside Health Center to close its doors, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Here's... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Romney Calls Occupy Wall Street 'Class Warfare'
(Newser) - Occupy Wall Street protesters are unlikely to find a friend in Mitt Romney. While speaking to a retirement community in Florida last night, the presidential candidate responded to a question about the anti-Wall Street protests with a brief but decidedly unsupportive comment, as reported by the National Journal : "I... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Geithner on BofA Fees: We Will Prevail
(Newser) - Tim Geithner joined President Obama in railing against Bank of America last night on CNN , promising that the White House will get tougher in the fight against new fees. The Obama administration is "going to push back harder,” said the Treasury secretary, who noted that the $5 monthly... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Alzheimer's May Be Contagious
(Newser) - Alzheimer's disease may, in some cases, be contagious, according to surprising results from a new study. "Some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process" similar to mad cow disease, a researcher says. In the study, mice that were injected with human brain tissue... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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