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The opposite of evil: Google named best place to work in America San Jose Mercury News By Mike Swift Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page and co-founder Sergey Brin often get props for their brains. But Google being named the best place to work in America by Fortune on Thursday may also have something to do with their noses. ... See all stories on this topic »

Telescope takes a fresh look into a nebula's golden eye msnbc.com The European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA, captured this unusual view of the Helix Nebula, a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. The colored picture was created from images taken ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Bioshock Infinite's Difficulty Could Hurt So Good Mashable If you're playing Bioshock Infinite's brand new "1999″ mode, get ready to die and to die a lot. "There are games saves," said Ken Levine, Irrational Games Creative Director, "and you're gonna f-cking need them." Irrational Games, the studio beyond the ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Relents: Apogee of Fear , First Sci-Fi Film Shot in Space, Will Be Released Wired News By Matt Blum Good news! Following many reports over the last few days that the first-ever science fiction film to actually be filmed in space was being kept from release by NASA, there is now word that the space agency has relented and that Apogee of ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News

NASA still not hiding aliens: Triangular 'UFO' debunked (+video) Christian Science Monitor Footage captured by NASA shows Venus, Earth and, on the opposite side of the field-of-view, a briefly mysterious triangular object headed our way. By Life's Little Mysteries Staff / January 19, 2012 The triangular 'UFO' as seen in footage captured by a ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Megaupload: Seven charged, Anti-piracy stance a sham say Feds SlashGear Seven have been charged in the Megaupload copyright shutdown case, including site founder Kim "Dr. Evil" Dotcom, as more details on the $500m suit emerge. At least four of the seven have been arrested so far, the NYTimes reports, though the company's ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Microsoft reports 'best holiday season in history' Computerandvideogames.com Microsoft has reported record financial results for its second quarter ended December 31, with company-wide revenue of $20.89 billion and net income of $6.62 billion. The firm shipped 8.2 million Xbox 360s during the three month period, ... See all stories on this topic »

Many teen moms didn't think they could get pregnant The Boston Globe AP ATLANTA - A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant. In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third who did not use birth control said the ... See all stories on this topic »

Siri's role is about to get even more intelligent msnbc.com Patently Apple says this diagram, part of Apple's patent app shows "several different types of clients and modes of operation which interestingly includes future use with car navigation systems, voice control systems and in-car entertainment systems. ... See all stories on this topic »

Shank 2 release date announced Computerandvideogames.com Announced last September, the game will be available on the PSN and PC in North America on February 7 for $9.99. It'll hit Xbox Live Arcade and the European PSN the following day for €9.99 or 800 Microsoft Points (£6.85). Shank 2 returns with a story ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple Education Event video now online SlashGear Apple put the cat among the publishing pigeons yesterday at its education-themed event, with the launch of iBooks 2 with textbooks, iBooks Author to create interactive digital books, and iTunes U for full, free university and K-12 courses. ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Darwin Fossils Released From Hiding PBS NewsHour This slide containing the cross section of a monkey-puzzle conifer tree was most likely collected from South America. Photo by British Geological Survey/Natural Environment Research Council. In April 2011, Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleobotanist, ... See all stories on this topic » PBS NewsHour

Bio Architecture Lab sees seaweed in biofuels San Francisco Chronicle Scientists in a cluttered Berkeley laboratory are working a bit of biochemical wizardry to transform ordinary seaweed into biofuels that promise a new source of energy for this oil-dependent nation. The lab's research has already fueled a startup ... See all stories on this topic »

Strange tulip-shape creature discovered in Canadian Rockies The State Column It's 500-million-years old and scientists are only now beginning to discover the rare qualities and characteristics of a strange tulip-shaped creature discovered fossilized in the Canadian Rockies. Named Siphusauctum gregarium, the creature was about ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Page Stung as Ad-Price Drop Means First Results Miss BusinessWeek By Brian Womack Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.'s Larry Page delivered his first disappointing quarterly results as chief executive officer after his push into mobile advertising and weakness in Europe trimmed growth in revenue from online ... See all stories on this topic »

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition trailer and details EndScore With Fallout: New Vegas having been out for almost a year and a half, some had wondered when we were going to see a Game of the Year edition. Well, seeing as that New Vegas did not receive a GOTY award (doesn't mean it wasn't awesome - see our Fallout: ... See all stories on this topic »

Comet Seen Vaporizing in Sun's Atmosphere—A First National Geographic For the first time, a death-diving comet has been observed as it vaporized in the sun's atmosphere, thanks to new data from a NASA satellite. More than a thousand known comets are so-called Kreutz sungrazers, a family of icy bodies that pass very near ... See all stories on this topic » National Geographic

Nike announces FuelBand smart wristband Telegraph.co.uk Nike has announced a new data-tracking wristband that it says will help people to become more active. Nike+ FuelBand displays your progress on its LED display. By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) The Nike+ Fuelband is a wristband that ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

New Video: Solar Flare Spied on Candy-Colored Sun National Geographic On Thursday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this colorful close-up video of a long-lasting M-class solar flare. The eruption shot out of active region 1401, a large sunspot that's been spitting flares about once a day since satellites ... See all stories on this topic »

Foxconn Chief Equates Employees To Animals TechCrunch While I suspect there's a lot lost in translation here,Foxconn chairman Terry Gou made a wildly distasteful joke this week at the Taipei Zoo, saying (according to WantChinaTimes): "Hon Hai (Foxconn) has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Soccer, Class Actions Increase, Google-Motorola, BP: Compliance BusinessWeek By Ellen Rosen Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Red Bulls, the soccer team owned by Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, must pay property taxes to Harrison, New Jersey, a tax-court judge ruled. The town where the Major League Soccer franchise ... See all stories on this topic »

Fracking's Greenhouse Gas Contribution Splits Scientists BusinessWeek By Jim Polson Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Two groups of Cornell University researchers have split over the contribution to global warming by rising extraction of natural gas from shale beds through a process known as fracking. Dueling papers in the journal ... See all stories on this topic »

Summify sold to Twitter, principals heading south Vancouver Sun Ten months after launching a unique news service, Vancouver startup Summify has been gobbled up by Twitter. The Romania-born principals of Summify, Mircea Pasol and Cristian Strat, announced in a blog on Thursday they've been acquired by Twitter - and ... See all stories on this topic »

Windows Phone to bump iPhone for second place in '15, IHS predicts Computerworld By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Thanks mainly to the new Lumia 900 and Nokia, Windows Phone could represent nearly 17% of the smartphones shipped in 2015, edging out Apple's iPhone for the second-place ranking behind Android smartphones. ... See all stories on this topic »

Kennedy hearse up for auction this weekend in Arizona USA TODAY By Peter Corbett, The Arizona Republic A white hearse that carried President Kennedy's casket in Dallas after the 1963 assassination is among the celebrity-linked cars that will be up for sale this weekend in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the Barrett-Jackson ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

Bing Maps to get Nokia branding Ubergizmo By George Wong on 01/20/2012 01:55 PST Don't be surprised if you launch the Bing Maps app on a Windows Phone device in the future and you see it branded as a Nokia map – even if you're not holding a Nokia phone. According to an interview Nokia's CEO, ... See all stories on this topic » Ubergizmo

HP Folio 13 hits the market with a bang, one of the inexpensive ultrabooks on ... News Pakistan Hewlett Packard (HP) unleashed a new ultrabook, HP Folio 13 in the market. Shortly after winding up their Consumer Electronics Show 2012 stint, the release of another slim notebook is a fast response to the changing market. The main attraction at HP's ... See all stories on this topic » News Pakistan

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