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Digg, Once Worth $164 Million, Sold To Betaworks For $500K

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Good news, MySpace: You’ve just been eclipsed as the biggest bust of the social media era...

Female GOP Hill Staffers Make $10,000 Less Than Male Staffers on...

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What does $10,000 mean to you? Well, if you made something around the...

Sizing Up Wind Energy: Bigger Means Greener, Study Says

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One of the most popular trends in sustainable living is to go...

July hottest month on record in U.S.—warming and drought to blame?

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July was the hottest month on record in the United States, perhaps due to a combination of global warming and a widespread drought, experts say...

Largest U.S. coal ash pond Little Blue to close, but future...

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Neighbors recall promises that the eerie azure lake known as...

Why 9 random people could decide tech design’s future

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As the massive Apple v. Samsung case heads to jury deliberation tomorrow after closing arguments, millions of dollars and the future of two tech giants hangs in the balance...

Was would-be Obama assassin a Republican convention page?

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On the heels of a failed plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, it appears one of the would-be killers attended the 2008 Republican National Convention as a page...

Occupy Monsanto protests shut down Monsanto distribution center

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A protest against seed giant Monsanto successfully shut down the company's seed distribution center in Oxnard, Calif. for six hours, causing delays in shipments in protest of genetically modified organisms...

Oldest known galaxy discovered by Hubble

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The Hubble telescope has spotted the universe's oldest known galaxy, a 13.2-billion-year-old formation that could tell scientists about the early periods of the universe...

Amazon pits its Kindle Fire directly against iPad Mini

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Competition in the tiny tablet market is getting fierce, thanks to an attempt by Amazon to ignite a rivalry with Apple...

Demand to dwarf supply on Colorado River

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called it "a call to action." But a recently released federal study may be a few steps beyond just that...