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  • NetSuite and Workday Rivalry Carries On an Old Tech Feud

    Workday , used to work for David Duffield, a rival of Mr. Ellison's. Mr. Duffield is the low-profile founder of PeopleSoft, a once-powerful maker of corporate software that Oracle acquired in a bitter, 17-month hostile takeover ...

  • ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets Frustrate Concert Promoters

    As the summer concert season approaches, music fans and the concert industry that serves them have a common enemy in New York. And in Russia. And in ...

  • Google eyes wireless markets

    Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear cookies Close ...

  • Oil Falls Below $94 on China Fed Concerns

    U.S. crude futures fell below $94 a barrel on Monday, amid lingering worries over fears of an economic slowdown in China, the world's No. 2 oil consumer, and worries that the U.S. Federal Reserve would curb its stimulus ...

  • Buzz Aldrin has a plan to get us to Mars by 2035

    (Credit: NASA) Buzz Aldrin is one of just a handful of people on earth with good reason to be unimpressed with the idea of a "moon shot." After all, he's among the privileged few who can say "Meh. Been there, done that." Aldrin is far more interested in a Mars shot these days. The second man to step on the moon in 1969 -- right behind the late Neil Armstrong -- ...


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By Brakhage: An Anthology [DVD]

By Brakhage: An Anthology [DVD]

Over more than half a century, filmmaker Stan Brakhage made some 320 films, which ranged in length from 9 seconds to more than 4 hours. A unique and personal innovator and visionary, he ranks alongside such experimental masters as Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clark, Maya Deren, and Michael Snow as one of the truly pivotal figures in avant-garde cinema, someone who saw possibilities in the medium that othe ... ...

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  • Amazon workers in Germany set for second strike for higher pay

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Workers at global internet retailer Amazon.com's German operations are set to go on a second daylong strike on Monday in a dispute over pay and benefits.Trade union Verdi is calling on workers at Amazon's logistics centre in Leipzig to stop working from 0430 GMT, it said, after 600 workers at its facilities in Bad Hersfeld and around 300 in Leipzig went on strike ...

  • Math wiz who said he had 1 in 285000 chance of love -- now engaged

    (Credit: University of Warwick) Love hurts. To which a logician might reply: "So shouldn't hate feel, really, really good?" Logic and love have about as intimate a relationship as bread and a calorie-controlled diet. This, however, didn't stop Peter Backus from attempting to quantify just how great (or small) his chances were of finding that one, true person who can ...

  • Robots to drones Australia eyes high-tech farm help to grow food

    Meet "Mantis" and "Shrimp", agricultural robots being tested to do these tasks and more in a bid to cut costs and improve productivity in Australia's economically vital farm sector, which exported A$39.6 billion ($38.8 billion)of produce in ...

  • Dress to kill in this synthetic spider silk outfit

    Qmonos is a tough, lightweight artificial spider silk with mass production applications, including everything from car parts to artificial blood ...

  • Local hero Man tweets DUI checkpoint locations

    Mr. Checkpoint is a man who alerts thousands of people where police are setting up DUI checkpoints in San Diego and the L.A. county areas. Not everyone approves of his ...

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