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The Toyota Motor Company today announced it is expanding its recall of products with faulty accelerators to include the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Many operators of CERN’s multi-billion-dollar particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), complained that the…
NEW YORK – “What the hell!? I can’t see out these damn things. What am I going to do with six hundred thousand “2010” sunglasses that don’t even fit over my eyes!? Oh God, I’m ruined!” said Richard Sclafani, inventor…
Last week, NPR’s Chief Shipping Correspondent Gerald Hopkins met with representatives from UPS and FedEx as part of NPR’s ongoing “Conversations in Shipping” series. They discussed the challenges and changes happening in shipping today. NPR: Thanks for sitting down with me…
PALO ALTO, CA – The popular online social networking/anonymous stalking utility known as Facebook has enjoyed explosive growth since its founding in 2004. When Facebook founder and small Massachusetts college dropout Mark Zuckerberg started the site out of his dorm…
In a Google Press Conference last week, CEO Eric Schmidt unveiled the latest Google software and products coming out over the next year: innovative business programs, a faster and more accurate search engine, and complete domination of the human race.…