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The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
| Technology
There was nothing more excruciating for me as a kid than seeing the presents pile up under the Christmas tree but knowing that I couldn't open them until Christmas morning. On the Google Chrome team, we've had the same feeling as we've been working to get betas ready for Mac, Linux and extensions. It's been a long time coming, but today we can check the top three items off our users' wish lists. Google...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
| Politics
Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin has erased her drop in the polls that followed her resignation as Alaska governor, according to to new national survey. But when it comes to opinions of Palin, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday suggests a partisan divide and a gender gap. The survey indicates that Americans are split on Palin, [...]
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The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
| Technology
Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. That's why today, at the Computer History Museum , we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Other
TMZ reports that Tiger Woods was listed as an overdose when he admitted to the hospital following his post-Thanksgiving car accident. According to the article, his charts are marked "OD" and a note says he was having difficulty breathing. This follows up with reports from earlier today that the investigating officer at the crash scene requested a subpoena to look into Woods' medical records...
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The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
| Technology
There's been no shortage of talk recently about the "future of news." Should publishers charge for news online? How do they replace lost sources of revenue such as classified ads? How will accountability journalism endure? And, even more fundamentally, will news survive in the digital era? These are questions we're deeply interested in, and we've been exploring potential solutions . But what's...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55 Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39 Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36 Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34 Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
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IraqPundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
Just as Iraq's parliament reached an agreement and announced the elections will be held March 6, a series of car bombs killed at least 120 people and wounded hundreds more today in Baghdad. The explosions were loud, buildings shook, we trembled. We could definitely feel it. At first it was really hard to tell where the killers struck and who was killed. Later we learned that a prestigious university...
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Google LatLong (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
As an avid travel planner or discerning house hunter, you might always be looking for another view of a location before you make your final decision. On the Google Maps team we're always looking for ways to make the search experiences like this more useful for you. This is what inspired our plans to provide a new type of mapping imagery. Starting today, developers will have access through the Google...
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The Big Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Sports
There are conflicting reports circulating this morning about a situation that went down at Tiger Woods’ Florida home overnight. There are photos and video of an unidentified blonde woman being taken out of an ambulance on a stretcher. Could it be Elin? Elin’s twin sister? Their mother? Immediately after the ambulance reached the hospital, a [...]
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Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
When Google asked what you liked and disliked about their new real-time communication application, you unquestionably said that you wanted more invites to share with friends and family. Problem solved! Today Google decided to play Santa with Wave invites. It has just doled out significantly more invites to existing users. In conjunction with the invite rollout, Google is also hinting that they’ll...
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Mobility Site (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
Verizon has made an update available for the Motorola Droid. This puts the Droid on Android 2.01. The instructions on how to go about updating your Droid can be found here. The following enhancements to the Droid by Motorola have been made: OS stability is improved. Battery life is improved. Camera auto focus functionality is improved, and time [...]
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The Plum Line (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
| Politics
With negotiations dragging on in the Senate, a central topic emerging on Capitol Hill is the intense pressure House Dems are likely to feel to adopt the eventual Senate proposal, and how they’re likely to react to it. In interviews with me just now, two well respected House liberals — Jan Schakowsky and Jerrold [...]
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The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
The HTC Bravo made its appearance in HTC’s recently leaked roadmap with a launch date of April 2010. Rocking almost identical specifications, the Bravo is the European variant of our beloved HTC Passion. Now that the name game is out…
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
| Politics
DOWNLOADS: (16) PLAYS: (38) Mr. Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran who never found a war he didn't like John McCain thinks we should not be talking about a timeline to withdraw from Afghanistan. McCain also apparently thinks that the eight years we've already spent in Afghanistan hasn't been long enough to "break the enemy's will" so we can "win". I would like for Sen. McCain to explain how...
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Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
| Politics
It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democrat Party that battled to preserve it. [...] Read the rest »