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An Easter Sunday opening day didn't hurt Microsoft as much as it might have before the Internet existed.
Discovered: Everyone thinks they're skinnier than they are, a big Cystic Fibrosis breakthrough, dialysis isn't very sexy and money, not race, explains gap in life expectancy.
Discovered: There's nasty stuff in our chicken that shouldn't be there, a more sustainable replacement for whale vomit, Florida's pythons are getting hungry and Earth doesn't want humans to get into its copper stash.
Just in time for the release of the new Windows phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, we learn all about how Microsoft plans to beef up its skimpy app store.
Twitter's new war against spam will get rid of a huge chunk of your followers, probably.
There are two types of unpaid interns: The kind who have a fair shot at suing their employers for illegal abuse of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the kind who can’t do anything about it. The government employs the second kind.
Marking his year anniversary as Google CEO, Larry Page sent out a love-filled memo to the Internet this afternoon, in which he tries really hard to get us to fall in love with Google again.
Discovered: Red wine just keeps getting better, an unexpected link between Google and GDP, old people are using more drugs than ever and water can now float on oil.
Discovered: A GIF that proves the Antarctic Ice shelf's super fast disintegration, rising CO2 levels did cause global warming millions of years ago, a climate change fighting plant and China gets rain in all the wrong places.
The nerds of Silicon Valley are all upset that these rich kids are taking over the industry that wants to be known for rewarding smarts and hard work over old money and connections.
The Chinese government shutdown Ai Weiwei's self-surveillance project commemorating the year anniversary of his own arrest, so we thought we'd look back at what the Chinese artist has been up to since the government put him under house arrest.
With Apple's acknowledgment of some iPads have a Wi-Fi problem, we have confirmation that the problem isn't one of those made-up-by whiner iPad issues.
The new show from Bravo called Huh? (working title), which will follow the "eclectic staff at icanhascheezburger.com, one of the largest humor publishers on the Internet known for their popular LOLs and FAILs," as Bravo explains it, sounds supremely boring.
Discovered: Early BPA exposure has some nasty effects for adults, a new feathery dinosaur, preschoolers don't play outside enough and the longer the commercial the better.
Discovered in Green: The world will get warmer by 2050, the Earth's coldest waters have been disappearing for decades, the ice sheet collapsed because of warm water, and the potential of algae biofuels.
Google hasn't had the best year since Larry Page took over as CEO one year ago today.
Reviewers are impressed by Microsoft's latest phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, but many still doubt that what some have called "a gorgeous device" and "a phone that every single person should consider owning" can overtake the iPhone or Android.
Discovered: A twin baby boom, college leads to better health, how to turn skinny babies into skinny adults, and a PTSD gene.
Patent wars are a tech-company rite of passage these days, and now Facebook can say it has joined that expensive and catty club with the counter lawsuit it just filed against Yahoo.
Discovered in green: Buying less stuff won't make everything all better, what Fukushima did to the ocean and its fish, fertilizers are doing nasty things to our air and sparrows have changed their tune for noisy cities.
The super-duper popular iPhone app Instagram, which adds filters to regular pictures, making them look retro and ready for sharing, has finally made it to Android phones.
Taking advantage of all the social transparency Facebook has created, one app puts all of our energy usage out there for our friends to see, hoping competition and peer pressure will encourage better habits.
The makers of the iBrain, a machine used to collect sleep data, have loftier plans for the EEG recording tool: mind reading.
Discovered: Eating McDonald's will make you very sad, preventing cancer is easy, the Earth's clock is all wrong, and picky women help a species survival.
Discovered in green: The ocean is getting warmer, the coral reef might be okay, actually, probably not, and stop fishing so much.
In our individuality obsessed culture, the only way to make one's iPhone hipper than the rest is to spend lots of money customizing the device.
The idea that goofball Ashton Kutcher will play visionary Steve Jobs in an upcoming film sounded so ludicrous that when Variety made the announcement yesterday, the Internet cautioned that it could be an April Fools joke.
Discovered in green: This common pesticide is most definitely killing the bees, a greener way to make plastics, a new type of electricity powered alternative fuel and getting to space on a few drops of fuel.
To the delight of Arianna Huffington, we imagine, a judge has dismissed that class action lawsuit filed last Spring by a group of unpaid bloggers suing the Huffington Post for pay, falling on the side of the Huffington Post.
Following its failure to separate its DVD and streaming businesses with its loud and unpopular Qwikster rebranding effort, Netflix has taken subtler tactics to segregate its two types of customers: buying up the domain DVD.com.
Discovered: An artificial skin that could make robots feel, babies are not as rational as we thought, good news for nerds: smart people finish first, and a molecule for weight loss.
Google's hardware expansion plans into tablet world, like its social expansion plans into Facebook world, will probably fail.
Canada has bested America in at least one thing today: Ridding itself of what The New Yorker called "horrid and useless" bits of currency, the penny.
As a result of the independent Fair Labor Association audit of Foxconn factories, workers will no longer work those notorious 12 hour shifts, according to the just released report.
Discovered: The first image of one billion stars, a new high for Autism diagnoses, some fishing advice and Lucy's cousins.
Last month's debate comparing the iPhone to the Chipotle burrito has resurfaced, this time with GigaOm's Om Malik taking a crack at comparing the two popular hand-helds.
If you look closely, among the shopping and fashion pins, Pinterest has lots and lots of porn -- it is an Internet site, after all.
It's not out of the kindness of its own heart that music streaming service Spotify has opted not to follow through on its threat to kick off all its freeloaders.
While Mark Zuckerberg's using his China trip for touristy things with girlfriend Priscilla Chan, Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken his China trip to do some Foxconn related PR-cleanup.
Following its predicted path as the MTV of the Internet, YouTube has started something called The Next Vlogger initiative, which sounds a lot like MTV's Wanna Be a VJ contests.
If we've learned one thing from reading Janet Reitman's look into fraternity culture at Dartmouth, it's that there's a lot of vomit involved.
Not wanting to take full responsibility for the worker abuses happening in his own country, Chinese senior politician Li Keqiang suggested to Apple CEO Tim Cook he thinks the iMaker should be the one to do the fixing.
Discovered: Sitting all day will kill you, should we be eating placenta?, a coral-reef herpes outbreak, and a resistant form of breast cancer.
Smartphones generally get all the tech press attention, but this week dumbphones and their loyal owners have popped up in two trend stories.
Always hungry for new Apple news, some Apple bloggers have created Apple "news," making up faux iPad scandals to fill the iVoid.
Though Facebook's calling Mark Zuckerberg's Shanghai trip a "vacation," whatever the Facebook CEO is doing over there with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan doesn't look like too much fun.
With Geraldo Rivera's lame apology for his Trayvon Martin hoodie comment today, we got a suggestion for a new show for the now-shamed Fox News pundit from commenter W. Brian Tucker.
Looking at Barack Obama's brand new Pinterest profile, he clearly understands the heavy female demographic on the social networking site.
Discovered: Eating chocolate keeps you thin, a type of plastic that fixes itself, an incredible facial transplant, and machines can tell if you're lying.
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