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  • US Oil Steady Below $99

    U.S. oil prices were steady below $99 on Wednesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to shed some light on whether it plans to taper its $85 billion stimulus program. The Fed's three quantitative easing schemes have been key in boosting prices of oil and other commodities. ...

  • Rockets Lazada gets $100 million in bid to be Southeast Asias Amazon

    (Reuters) - Lazada, the Southeast Asian online retail company founded by Germany's Rocket Internet Gmbh, has secured another $100 million from investors in its bid to lift the region from its status as an e-commerce ...

  • Sony to consider Third Points proposal Sony CEO Hirai

    Elon Musk, Tesla Motors CEO, tells the Reuters Global Tech Summit that he'll talk to politicians who back local car dealers trying to keep Tesla from selling directly to ...

  • LG to mass-produce flexible displays for smartphones

    Looking to get a leg-up in the bendable display market, LG Display is going full throttle ahead with production of the new technology for mobile ...

  • Dotcom in tears after Megaupload files deleted

    Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site.Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers.LeaseWeb said in a statement it hosted the data for over a year at its own expense without receiving any requests to access it or retain ...


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Movie Review

Waking Life [DVD]

Richard Linklater has complained that there aren't enough ideas in movies these days--that is, beyond the idea of the "high concept," in which you can summarize everything a movie is about in two sentences--so he went out and made one that is about nothing but ideas and certainly cannot be summarized in two sentences. The result, Waking Life, is simple in conception, but mind-boggling in i ... ...

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  • Microsofts Xbox DRM reversal not the first 12 tech mulligans

    changed its controversial stance on always-on connectivity and game DRM on Wednesday, a reversal that comes after more than a week of harsh criticism from consumers, press and especially competitors. The move comes just a few months before the console is set to hit store shelves, and is widely-viewed as reactionary. Rival Sony, which priced and further detailed ...

  • Microsoft has no plans to revisit Xbox Ones $499 price

    Even as the company backtracks on its unpopular game-sharing policy, a company executive tells CNET that it won't budge on the price for the console, some $100 more than the rival PlayStation ...

  • John McAfee resurfaces as ranting video star mocks McAfee software

    John Mcafee, anti-virus software guru, arrives for a news conference outside of the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, December 4, ...

  • Yahoo rejects fears hackers will exploit old user IDs

    By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:46pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Wednesday downplayed concerns that its plans to recycle inactive user IDs could leave users exposed to hackers, saying only 7 percent of those IDs are tied to actual Yahoo email accounts. The Internet company, which announced last week it would release user IDs that ...

  • Much faster Wi-Fi coming soon

    The latest Wi-Fi technology, called "802.11ac," offers speeds of up to 1.3 Gigabits per second. That's fast enough to transfer an entire high-definition movie to a tablet in under 4 minutes, share photo albums with friends in a matter of seconds or stream three HD videos at the same time. It's more than double the top speed of the previous standard, known as ...

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