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This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living In AOL’s Offices

It turns out there is at least one person who likes AOL — enough to even eat, sleep, shower and live out of its Palo Alto HQ like some sort of Silicon Valley hobo for months. Meet Eric Simons.


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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

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Yahoo Launches Axis Browser For iOS And Chrome, And It Actually Doesn’t Suck What about an Android version, guys?

Fortune: Executives ‘Blown Away’ By Apple’s New Products I’m genuinely surprised that Apple does this.

The Private Rocker Is A Perfect Place To Escape The Office Buy two and put them together face to face for an awesome, rocking bed!

Augmented Reality Muppets Band-Aids Distract Your Kids From Pain Alex, our resident Muppets fanatic, is gonna love this one.

Being Deaf: How Different The World Is Without Hearing Today I learnt to appreciate all the senses God gave me.

Are You A True Cyberpunk? Consult This ’90s Guide To Find Out Damn, not even close.


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Chief Of Police Orders 10 Officers To Hunt Down Son’s Stolen iPhone

Blood runs thicker than water, and apparently familial iPhones are more important than real police work. At least that’s the case in Berkeley, where Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered 10 of his officers to look for his son’s stolen iPhone.


May 24, 2012
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Jury Finds That Google Did Not Infringe Oracle’s Patents

After a week of deliberations, a jury has returned a verdict in the patent portion of the Google-Android fight to the death. Google is innocent — it did not infringe on two of Oracle’s patents with Android.


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Struggling HP Slashes 27,000 Jobs

HP’s quarterly earnings may have outperformed expectations, but it’s not good enough: the Silicon Valley company confirmed rumours that it would cut lots of jobs. 27,000 jobs to be precise. That’s 8 per cent of its workforce.


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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

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Windows 8 Boots So Fast You Can’t Access The BIOS Menu Boot times that are too fast? Bet you never thought you’d see that headline.

The Huge Difference Between Food In The 1950s And Today Why did everyone start increasing portions in the first place anyway?

Rugged Android Tablet Redefines Tonka-Tough… And Ugly Perfect for the kids then?

Why Aeroplanes Still Have Ashtrays In The Bathrooms No, it’s not so you can have a sneaky puff mid-flight. Oh.

Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class-Action Lawsuit *shakes head*


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Facebook IPO Nosedive Gets Facebook IPO Class-Action Lawsuit

It’s been more and more apparent that there was some shady — though not necessarily illegal! — activity from Facebook’s bank advisors in the lead-up to the company’s IPO last week. And now, investors who got the shaft are trying to get their money back through the courts.


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Facebook Engineer Turns Five-Year-Olds Into Hackers

Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world’s largest social network. But he moonlights as a children’s author.


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WSJ: Blame Morgan Stanley For Facebook’s Woeful IPO

Since the start of the week, Facebook’s stock price has been sinking like an anti-social stone. Despite NASDAQ’s open admission about screwing up the offering, the Wall Street Journal is pointing its finger higher up the chain.


May 23, 2012
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There’s A Ridiculous Traffic Jam Of People Trying To Climb Mount Everest

Even though four people died trying to climb Mount Everest last weekend, and even if reaching the summit costs more than a Porsche, it’s not stopping people from attempting to scale the highest point on Earth. In fact, there’s so many people trying to climb Mount Everest that it’s causing a human traffic jam.