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A Gay Marriage for Burt and Ernie? Not all Progressives Are on Board

A Gay Marriage for Burt and Ernie? Not all Progressives Are on Board

Three decades of rooming together on 'Sesame Street' leads to a petition drive More »

Nobody Believes That Anonymous Can Actually Hack Facebook

Nobody Believes That Anonymous Can Actually Hack Facebook

According to a YouTube video covered widely this week, Anonymous is planning a full-fledged assault against the large social network More »

It's the Beginning of the End for the Apple App Store

It's the Beginning of the End for the Apple App Store

If Apple thinks it can woo iPad owners forever with its shiny, user-friendly apps and its cute matching app store, the company is deluded More »

Behind the Dow's 1,000-Point Swings: Is It the Market or the Machines?

Behind the Dow's 1,000-Point Swings: Is It the Market or the Machines?

"High-speed computerized trading, called high-frequency trading, is exacerbating the market's big swings." More »

TBS Cancels 'Lopez Tonight,' but Don't Blame Conan O'Brien

TBS Cancels 'Lopez Tonight,' but Don't Blame Conan O'Brien

The last telecast will air Thursday, according to a network press release More »

Pakistan May Be Standing in Way of Polio's Eradication

Pakistan May Be Standing in Way of Polio's Eradication

As the epidemic disease spreads throughout the countryside, the U.N. delivers oral vaccines to children More »

You Can Now Protect Your iPad With Bernie Madoff's Pants

You Can Now Protect Your iPad With Bernie Madoff's Pants

An entrepreneur has bought 16 pairs of Madoff's pants at auction and is transforming them into iPad cases More »

Gloria Steinem Now Wants Boycott of 'The Playboy Club'

Gloria Steinem Now Wants Boycott of 'The Playboy Club'

The undercover Playboy Bunny and noted feminist has upped the rhetoric against the new NBC show More »

Social Media Could Be Making the Market Crash Even Worse

Social Media Could Be Making the Market Crash Even Worse

After the market crash in 2008, researchers at the Indiana University found the mood on Twitter correlated with the value of the Dow More »

It's Hard to Tell What Kind of Company Facebook Wants to Be

It's Hard to Tell What Kind of Company Facebook Wants to Be

Facebook has multiple personalities. One day it's a place to hang out with your friends and the next it's where you share your news. More »

Kanye & Jay-Z's 'Throne': Catchy, Gaudy, and 'Chillingly Out of Touch'

Kanye & Jay-Z's 'Throne': Catchy, Gaudy, and 'Chillingly Out of Touch'

The first, diverse takes from critics More »

Sweden-Based Spotify Is Off to a Promising Start in the U.S.

Sweden-Based Spotify Is Off to a Promising Start in the U.S.

When Spotify launched three and a half weeks ago we wondered if it could compete with the saturated American cloud-music scene More »

How Facebook Affects Kids' Brains

How Facebook Affects Kids' Brains

Larry D. Rosen's presentation to the American Psychological Association is a little more nuanced than "Facebook Rots Kids' Brains," but it's still got plenty to be concerned about More »

The Day Bank of America's Stock Fell 20 Percent

The Day Bank of America's Stock Fell 20 Percent

The stock market crash was nothing compared to Bank of America's 20% plummet More »

Hollywood's Most Infamous Private Eye Spills the Beans

Hollywood's Most Infamous Private Eye Spills the Beans

The dirty secrets of Anthony Pellicano More »

Anonymous Retaliates Against Arrests With Massive Police Hack

Anonymous Retaliates Against Arrests With Massive Police Hack

The FBI arrested people alleged to be involved with hactivist collective, and now the collective has responded the way it knows best More »

Charlie Sheen to Die Gruesome Sitcom Death (With a Classy Funeral)

Charlie Sheen to Die Gruesome Sitcom Death (With a Classy Funeral)

The controversial star's character ends in a "meat explosion" More »

Latest Global Crisis: Solar Storms Are Set to Hit the Earth

Latest Global Crisis: Solar Storms Are Set to Hit the Earth

Now that "Debtaggedon" is over, Reuters is reporting that there have been three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days More »

The Backlash to the Backlash of a Multiracial Spider-Man

The Backlash to the Backlash of a Multiracial Spider-Man

It doesn't seem like a big deal to have a half-black, half-Latino play the character, does it? Apparently so. More »

The Future of the Search Engine

The Future of the Search Engine

Can you imagine an Internet without Google search? Oren Etzoni, a Washington University computer scientist, can. Or, at least he pictures a search very different from what we have. More »

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