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This Tiny 'Dragonfly' Drone Can Dodge Obstacles Midair On Its Own

A small drone that resembles a robotic dragonfly is the first of its kind to be able to flap its wings and dodge obstacles midflight without a human operator at the controls.Engineers at Delft...

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9 People Who Shook Up The Defense Industry In 2013

The military landscape is evolving faster than ever, forcing the U.S. government to rely more and more on private military contractors. These companies support a wide range of military operations...

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11 Unusual Homes You Can Buy Right Now

The housing market may be on the mend, but that doesn't mean it hurts to have a house with a little something extra to sell. The owners of an all-purple house near London certainly got people talking....

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14-Year-Old Who Had 'Fascination' With Columbine Arrested For Allegedly...

Police arrested a Washington teenager after they allegedly found three guns, ammunition, possible gunpowder, and fireworks in his home, The Olympian reports.One of the weapons found at the home was...

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FED UNEXPECTEDLY TAPERS

The December FOMC decision is out.The Fed will taper asset purchases to a monthly rate of $75 billion from the current $85 billion pace. Half of the reduction is in Treasury purchases and half of the...

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STOCKS EXPLODE AFTER FED ANNOUNCEMENT

The Fed announced a taper and stocks are spiking.The Dow is up 131 points and the S&P 500 is up 8 points.Gold is basically unchanged and bonds are now higher, with the yield on the 10-year at 2.89%...

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There's One Big Reason To Believe Facebook Can Survive Its News Feed Problem...

Yesterday we posted a story about the problems with Facebook's News Feed.In short: There's so much stuff being shared on Facebook that the News Feed is struggling to sort through it all. Mobile...

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The Unthinkable Is Happening: Apple's Dominance In Apps Is Slipping Away To...

In the U.S., it sometimes feels as if everyone has an iPhone. And historically, Apple has dominated in terms of offering users the most apps, and offering developers the most lucrative place to sell...

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Fed Lowers Unemployment Forecast

The Fed lowered its unemployment forecast for 2014, to 6.3%-6.6% from 6.4%-6.8%.This is important because the Fed has tied potential rate cuts to an unemployment target of 6.5%.They also cut the...

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Nintendo Executive Says Super Mario Won't Be Coming To Your iPhone

During an interview with Seattle's KING-TV, Nintendo's top U.S. exec Reggie Fils-Amie revealed that the company won't be creating mobile games in the immediate future.Nintendo has had a rough year. Its...

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The Fed Just Began The Taper — Here's What That Actually Means

By now you know that the Fed just started the dreaded "taper" but if you're normal, you have no idea what that means. So let us explain.During the Financial Crisis, the Fed was forced to cut rates to...

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There's A New Skype-Killer That Runs Right In Your Chrome Browser

KeKu is a Chrome plugin, iOS app, and Android app that lets you make phone calls over the Internet anywhere in the world for dirt cheap.Calling internationally is still a clunky process, dependent on...

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Take A Closer Look At Satya Nadella, Who Could Become Microsoft's Next CEO...

Satya Nadella is one of the leading internal candidates to become the next CEO of Microsoft, having spent 21 years at the company, rising sharply in power in the past few years, as part of Steve...

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The Best Part Of 'Anchorman 2' Features A Star-Studded Epic News Team Brawl

Warning: There are major spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "Anchorman 2" yet.Possibly the best part of "Anchorman 2" takes place during the film's final leg when a multitude of celebrity anchors...

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Google Captures Some Of The Year's Most Moving Images In This Amazing...

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist video, and this year's packs in everything from Pope Francis to the Free Syrian Army.The video is not simply a collection of what Google deemed most important...

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LIVE: Bernanke Explains The Fed's Surprise Decision

The Federal Open Market Committee just announced the first reduction (a.k.a. "tapering") of the pace of monthly bond purchases the Federal Reserve makes under its quantitative easing program known as...

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Ben Bernanke Just Mowed Down A Whole Bunch Of Haters

Here's an important point that's inspired by a fewtweets from our friend Josh Brown.In announcing the beginning of the reduction of Quantitative Easing — which Bernanke just did— he just slapped in the...

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Whole Foods Will Stop Selling Chobani Yogurt Next Year

Whole Foods is going to stop selling Chobani greek yogurt next year as it moves away from foods containing GMOs (genetically modified organisms). The high-end grocery chain will stop selling the yogurt...

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Nearly 100 Of Japan's PGA Officials Will Resign Amid Mafia Scandal

Two former executives of Japan's Professional Golf Association were found to have ties to the Japanese mafia and now all 91 representatives of the organization will resign en masse according to an AFP...

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An Analyst Just Published The First Outlook For 2015 We've Seen

We're still not done looking back at 2013 and sifting through all the 2014 outlooks published by Wall Street.So were a little shocked to see Societe Generale's Kit Juckes publish a note titled "The...

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