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NASA’s Kepler discovers awesome extrasolar ‘odd couple’ – Alaska Dispatch

Zee News NASA's Kepler discovers awesome extrasolar 'odd couple' Alaska Dispatch Astronomers using NASA's Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft have discovered an Oscar and Felix among extrasolar planets – an odd couple with orbits so close to each other that at times the larger planet looms more than twice as large as the full moon in … NASA's Kepler discovers rare pair of 'close encounter' planets The Bunsen Burner Odd Alien Planets So Close Together They See 'Planetrise' Space.com Astronomers find planets so close they 'see' each other in night sky GMA News Los Angeles Times – msnbc.com – Wired News all 144 news articles

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After Joining Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg Stamped Out Sexism In The Office (FB)

Shortly after joining Facebook , Sheryl Sandberg met with a bunch of the female engineers at Facebook, which were facing some discrimination inside the company from the men. She systematically “handled” those discriminatory situations, according to an account from an early Facebook employee named Katherine Losse in a new feature on the Wall Street Journal . Here’s the best bit from the account: At a one-on-one meeting with Sheryl weeks later, I found out that she had an interest in the topic of women at Facebook and in Silicon Valley generally

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Apple Stores get their turn under NY Times’ investigative spotlight – CNET

Coolest Gadget Reviews Apple Stores get their turn under NY Times' investigative spotlight CNET A just-published Times report on pay and conditions at Apple Stores has at least one news outlet wondering if recent Apple activity around salary increases was meant as a kind of preemptive strike. by Edward Moyer Apple employees in 2010, preparing for … Apple's Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay New York Times Did NY Times report drive Apple to be extra generous to workers

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Thrive and Thrive 7 Tablets by Toshiba Delay for Android 4.0 Update – The Driod Guy

The Driod Guy Thrive and Thrive 7 Tablets by Toshiba Delay for Android 4.0 Update The Driod Guy Android Phones, Android Tablets, News , Tech, Gadgets And More, Thedroidguy … released in the coming month on the much-awaited Google Nexus 7 tablet . Android 4.0 Delayed for Toshiba Thrive Tablets The Inquisitr Will Android Ever Beat the “Fragmentation” Rap

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Apple v. Motorola Mobility epic patent case thrown out – VentureBeat

VentureBeat Apple v. Motorola Mobility epic patent case thrown out VentureBeat Judge Richard Posner threw out a heated case between Apple and Google-owned Motorola Mobility yesterday, ending an infringement squabble between two companies deeply rooted in competition.

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Alan Turing: A multitude of lives in fiction – BBC News

BBC News Alan Turing: A multitude of lives in fiction BBC News By Graham Moore Scriptwriter If Alan Turing had not existed, would we have had to invent him? The question seems to answer itself: Alan Turing very much did exist, and yet we have persisted in inventing him still

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