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  • Commodities Tomorrow Hurricane Forecast Energy

    CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. The hurricane forecast is for 7 to 11 hurricanes this season, which could be bullish for the energy markets. Nat gas was up on the day because storage levels rose less than ...

  • Apple Android and a truckload of watermelons

    Two farmers bought a truckload of watermelons, paying five dollars apiece for them. Then they drove to the market and sold all their watermelons for four dollars each. After counting their money at the end of the day, they realized that they'd ended up with less money than they'd started with. "See!" said the one farmer to the other. "I told you we shoulda got a bigger ...

  • Ashton Kutcher Media $ Twitter up

    "For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like ...

  • Icahn seeks up to $7 billion for Dell bid

    Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange, in this June 27, 2007, file ...

  • Is protecting intellectual property from cyber thieves futile

    Mandiant report earlier in the year linking China's People's Liberation Army ongoing and massive cyberattacks against U.S. corporations, government agencies, universities and other organizations, policy makers and industry experts have been trying to figure out how to better secure their intellectual property against cyberattacks. Call it a work in progress. "The frustration for ...


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Toy Story [Blu-Ray]

Toy Story [Blu-Ray]

Has it really been 15 years? Have we revolved around the sun that many times since the day when Pixar was not a household name and computer animation was not considered a viable medium for feature-length entertainment? The first fully computer-animated feature film, Toy Story was somet ... ...

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  • Google surfaces your photos in search

    (Credit: Google) Looking for a picture you took at your sister's bridal shower? Google's search engine will now help you find it -- so long as you've posted the shot to the company's companion social network. The company announced Thursday that Google+ members can log in to Google.com ...

  • Facebook users share 1 billion stories through third-party apps

    MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook highlighted its developer platform on Thursday, throwing out some big numbers around how third-party apps benefit from connecting to users through the social network. The social network opened up its platform to independent developers six years ago Friday, Director of Product Manager Doug Purdy told journalists today at a press conference at Facebook's ...

  • Could storm-chasing UAVs help predict tornadoes

    tornado that rampaged through 17 miles of central Oklahoma, plans for storm-chasing UAVs are taking on new significance. Students at Oklahoma State University have been working on ...

  • Can Microsofts Kinect finally deliver for gamers

    original Kinect and promised next-level gaming free of controllers. What happened? It turned out that the Kinect hardware wasn't quite as advanced as we ...

  • EU plans $6.4 billion effort to boost chip manufacturing

    The European Commission is spending 5 billion euros to coordinate and advance the processor industry in Europe. The goal: a fifth of worldwide ...

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