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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110723/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110723/capt.25e85d5c1ae344fd872c621de42855ad-c75a155868b84f9996a3998599a2c28d-0.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=Xn0PwupzeTMg1p0cpC5K0w--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="In this photo taken by Vergard M. Aas, a Norwegian crime reporter who responded to the scene of a mass shooting on Utoya Island, Norway, victims lie near the shoreline approximately one hour after police say a man dressed as a police officer gunned down youths as they ran and even swam for their lives at a camp w…
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_gays_in_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.d0d8f3d16de94f29b506b90c4741c53c-d0d8f3d16de94f29b506b90c4741c53c-0.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=rqpD3n8vzGAZ52g6DtSpBA--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta walks out to greet John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the Pentagon Thursday, July 21, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" /></a>AP - The ban on gays in the military has stood for nearly a century.</p><br clear="all"/> …
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_explosion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110722/capt.5948999c11d1490494de4ae8bd4b960b-4c0d410b634448099a0feab62e7c1370-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2loQsxQ2i14xg.6YNKz92A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="CORRECTS YEAR Debris covers the area outside a building in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents. (AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord) NORWAY OUT:" border="0" />&l…
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Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is soaring. Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million visitors in just 21 days. Meanwhile, Google is reported to be preparing to add a social gaming feature to the Google+ service in order to attract even more subscribers and pose a stronger challenge to its primary target, Facebook. Source: TechWorldNews
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_re_us/us_heat_wave"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.f15462c051f8420093930bc38081edf7-cd612648f84b4e009e702b17bb5cd1e3-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XPvkwYdT5kEqpB00_wWqrA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Vanity Mendez, 11, left, Isaiah Rivera, 6, center, and Jonathan Medina, 11, cool off at an open fire hydrant in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Thursday, July 21, 2011. A heatwave that has enveloped much of the central part of the country for the past couple of weeks is moving east and temperatures are exp…
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_phone_hacking"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110720/capt.2146ee6c93d8466da218f3710918e148-2146ee6c93d8466da218f3710918e148-0.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=KQVP3Fn6tC1g_ILItbiOnw--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch arrives at his Fifth Avenue residence, Wednesday, July 20, 2011, in New York. Emerging relatively unscathed from a British parliamentary hearing on the phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch returned to the United States on Wednesday, where his company faces a host of fi…
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If somebody asks me who makes the best-looking phone, I tell them it's Samsung. The phones are sleek, stylish and light, and the Galaxy smartphones and tablets always have a brilliant display. Despite that, the iPhone 4 is still great, and my lean toward Apple is just too strong to permit me to do anything more with a Samsung phone than just mess around for a while. Yeah, I love my iPhone, and I want to keep it. Source: TechWorldNews
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Eyebrows -- those highly mobile facial features that always get raised when people are astonished -- got a good workout Tuesday at Apple's quarterly earnings call. Apple COO Tim Cook surprised analysts by stating that some customers are spending their money on iPads instead of new Macs. There's long been suspicion that the iPad has been eating into sales of laptop and desktop PCs. Source: TechWorldNews
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_go_co/us_debt_showdown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.064215a0d8534881bc0a149ff81778fe-064215a0d8534881bc0a149ff81778fe-0.jpg?x=130&y=117&q=85&sig=vFD0Tb.q4dTgBixf355zxg--" align="left" height="117" width="130" alt="House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio is followed by reporters after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)" border="0" /></a>AP - In secretive endgame negotiations, President Barack Obama and House Republican leaders reached anew on Thursday for an e…
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_nfl_labor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.c861dfdd359d464091219670e39593be-c861dfdd359d464091219670e39593be-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=UmagXumnc0WJEVL7MObVmg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, speaks with Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank during an NFL owners labor committee meeting in College Park, Ga., on Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0" /></a>AP - NFL owners voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tentative 10-year agreement to end…
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110722/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gays_in_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.d0d8f3d16de94f29b506b90c4741c53c-d0d8f3d16de94f29b506b90c4741c53c-0.jpg?x=115&y=130&q=85&sig=rqpD3n8vzGAZ52g6DtSpBA--" align="left" height="130" width="115" alt="Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta walks out to greet John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the Pentagon Thursday, July 21, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has decided to end the ban on gays serving openly in the armed services an…
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Days after the FBI arrested a number of alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous, the hackers struck again. They claim to have stolen a gigabyte of information from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The group alerted the world to its latest activities via a series of tweets, including one with a link to a PDF file as evidence it had the stolen information. Source: TechWorldNews
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In a continuing effort to streamline product development, Google announced Wednesday the company will be shutting down its Google Labs project. The Google Labs initiative was the tech giant's testing facility, where employees and engineers were given creative freedom to tinker with experimental projects that perhaps didn't necessarily fall within their job descriptions. Source: TechWorldNews
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A team of scientists has achieved what might prove to be a breakthrough in quantum computing. The group has managed to partially suppress quantum decoherence, one of the major obstacles to quantum computing, by using crystalline molecular magnets. Decoherence, which is a much-debated topic, is believed to be the loss of information from a system into the environment that fixes a system into one state. Source: TechWorldNews
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110721/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.00535e83908245278e9dba925fe2d673-00535e83908245278e9dba925fe2d673-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=WC.9wxl1ljHLHWMo5N8AiA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for an EU summit of eurogroup members at the EU Council building in Brussels on Thursday, July 21, 2011. Eurozone leaders are moving closer to signing off on a second bailout for Greece but markets are fretting that any deal that emerges later Thursday may imply a Gr…
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110721/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110721/capt.7614354c1cb348ad960af0b57b8efff1-7614354c1cb348ad960af0b57b8efff1-0.jpg?x=130&y=70&q=85&sig=4tJeZUMtAJ_cOsgHhm14.Q--" align="left" height="70" width="130" alt="In this image provided by NASA, Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Cape Canaveral, Fla., completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, early Thursday morning, July 21, 2011. Atlantis, the fo…
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There's a lot to love and like about Mac OS X Lion, but it's far more disorienting and confusing than I ever imagined. I've been using Macs since the early 1990s, and I faithfully upgrade to new versions of the operating system quickly. The original Mac OS X was a pretty big leap, but Lion, it sure seems now, offers more in the way of interaction transformation than I ever expected. Source: TechWorldNews
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It was only a month ago that Adobe cut off Linux's AIR, so bloggers may be excused if they were a bit surprised by last week's news. Namely? In yet another twist in the company's on-again/off-again relationship with our favorite open source operating system -- a roller-coaster ride that involved taking away 64-bit Flash for Linux last year -- Adobe has now apparently seen fit to bring it back again. Source: TechWorldNews
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The growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure. Users are increasingly bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on the hop. Source: TechWorldNews
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110720/ap_on_re_us/us_heat_wave_the_dome"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110720/capt.ae85897a9d9548cb9845e275dec73140-ae85897a9d9548cb9845e275dec73140-0.jpg?x=101&y=130&q=85&sig=d6K6j94.XVW8BNeoSlJwIw--" align="left" height="130" width="101" alt="Members of the Salina South High School soccer team work out for conditioning training early Wednesday, July 20, 2011, in Salina, Kansas, to beat the heat of the day. The temperature is expected to reach 106 degrees in the Salina area. (AP Photo/Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey)" border="0" /></a>AP - If t…
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