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Apple Confirms It Will Buy Beats for $3 Billion

Posted: 28 May 2014 10:23 PM PDT

From left: Beats Cofounder Jimmy Iovine, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Beats Cofounder Dr. Dre and Eddy Cue, Apple's SVP of Internet Software and Services. Apple confirmed on Wednesday that it will buy Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3 billion, by far the largest acquisition in its history. Apple is buying the two companies for a purchase price of about $2.6 billion and approximately $400 million

Archaeologists Unearth Roman Fort and Harbor in England

Posted: 28 May 2014 10:04 PM PDT

Vindolanda was a Roman fort south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, similar to the Maryport Roman fort in Cumbria, England that Oxford archaeologists and volunteers are currently excavating (not pictured). A team of archaeologists and volunteers unearthed the remains of what is believed to be a Roman fort and harbor on the coast of northwest England Tuesday. While excavating the remains

$1 Million in 1 Day: 'Reading Rainbow' Kickstarter Earns Pot of Gold

Posted: 28 May 2014 10:03 PM PDT

LeVar Burton reads The Tortoise and the Hare in a video on the Reading Rainbow YouTube channel. You did it, Internet readers. In just half a day, LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow campaign to raise $1 million on crowdfunding website Kickstarter has reached its seven-figure goal. The money from nearly 23,000 donors will be used to bring Burton's cult TV classic to a new generation of readers by

Google's Employee Demographics: Mostly White, Mostly Male

Posted: 28 May 2014 10:00 PM PDT

(Left to Right): Google's leadership trio of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and Larry Page pose ahead of Google's IPO in 2004. Google released demographic data on its nearly 50,000 employees for the first time Wednesday. The gist: Google employees are predominantly men (70%) and predominantly white (61%). "Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity," Laszlo Bock, Google's

7 Key Moments From Edward Snowden's First-Ever U.S. TV Interview

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:58 PM PDT

Edward Snowden speaks with Brian Williams in an NBC News exclusive interview. Edward Snowden speaks. The bespectacled NSA-leaker, currently living under asylum in Moscow, Russia, gave a wide-ranging interview to NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams on Wednesday night, his first with a major American television network since exposing the country's massive surveillance programs. Wednesday's

Tumblr Page Shows What Happens 'When Women Refuse' Sexual Advances

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:55 PM PDT

Mourners hug in front of the IV Deli Mart, where part of Friday night's mass shooting took place, on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 in the Isla Vista area near Goleta, Calif. In the wake of last Friday's massacre near the University of California, Santa Barbara, and suspect Elliot Rodger's misogynistic manifesto, a new Tumblr page is highlighting violence inflicted on women when they reject sexual

Maya Angelou Dead at 86

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:04 AM PDT

Celebrated American author and poet Maya Angelou died on Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her family said in a statement. She was 86. Her cause of death was not immediately known. Citing "health reasons" less than a week ago, Angelou backed out of the 2014 MLB Beacon Awards luncheon, where she was to be honored for her part in the civil rights movement. Angelou was also

32 Tweets of Wisdom From Maya Angelou

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Maya Angelou speaks at the Forsyth Medical Center on May 15, 2012. American author and poet Maya Angelou died Wednesday at the age of 86. Angelou's writing is iconic, and she gave us tidbits of her wisdom in 140-character bites over the past few years. Angelou sent a mere 255 tweets since joining Twitter in 2010, but her feed reads like a motivational guidebook. Her tweets send messages of

Astronauts Plant Trees in Russia That Tower Above Politics

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:36 AM PDT

Trees line the path of Cosmonaut Grove at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia. In their last days on Earth before launching to the International Space Station, astronauts sees the same thing: two rows of trees that punctuate the otherwise austere landscape outside the space launch facility in Baikonur, Russia. The trees that outline the T-shaped path are mismatched in size, but that's for a

Google Made the Slightest Change to Its Logo and Users Still Noticed

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:31 AM PDT

You know you're an influential company when even the slightest change to your logo causes people to take notice. Google updated its logo with an almost imperceivable tweak over the weekend, which was noticed by users on Reddit and quickly picked up by multiple publications. Just how slight is the change? Here's a GIF of the logo, before and after: The search giant acknowledged the

21 Dead After Fire at South Korean Hospice

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:29 AM PDT

Policemen stand outside the fire-damaged Hyosarang hospital near Janseong on May 28, 2014. A fire at the South Korean hospice for elderly, infirm patients killed 21 people. A fire at a South Korean hospice killed 21 people and injured seven others on Wednesday, local time, officials said. Most of the victims were elderly patients in their 70s and 80s who were suffering from Alzheimer's, stroke

Sergey Brin: Google Was 'Shocked' When It Learned of NSA Snooping

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:27 AM PDT

Reccode's Kara Swisher, Walt Mossberg and Google's Sergey Brin. RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California — Google cofounder Sergey Brin said the company was shocked to learn that the NSA was snooping on backbone data. Speaking with Re/Code's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the inaugural Code Conference (the replacement for the "D Conference"), Brin explained that even though the company was

The 10 Countries With the Most Internet Freedom

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:24 AM PDT

BY ZOE FOX Iceland has the fewest barriers to Internet freedom, according a recent study ranking countries based on obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights. Iceland scored just six out of a possible 40 points. (The lower number of points, the higher level of Internet freedom.) Internet users in Estonia, which trails Iceland by just three points, also enjoys a

Thailand Blocks Facebook to Silence Coup Protests

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:25 AM PDT

Protesters, background, confront Thai soldiers blocking the road during an anti-coup demonstration at the Victory Monument in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, May 26, 2014. Thailand's military has blocked Facebook in hopes of quieting protests against the coup d'etat it declared last week. The country's information technology ministry announced the block on Wednesday after reports that users were not

White House Science Fair Kids Are Smarter Than Obama, Says Obama

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:21 AM PDT

President Barack Obama holds a Model used to show how polymers expand as he talks with Peyton Robertson, 12, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., about how his sandless sandbags work while touring the 2014 White House Science Fair exhibits on display in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. (AP Photo/ The fourth annual White House Science Fair took place on Tuesday,

Obama Gives Major Foreign Policy Speech at West Point Graduation

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:19 AM PDT

This is a developing story. We will continue to update... President Obama gave the commencement address at West Point on Wednesday morning, laying out his vision for America's role in the world after six years as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military. SEE ALSO: Obama Takes a Surprise Walk Around D.C., Meets With Normals See the 12 most impactful quotes from Obama's address: This is the

Watch Live: Obama Gives Major Foreign Policy Speech at West Point Graduation

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:19 AM PDT

Addressing the graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama outlined a foreign policy vision using diplomacy and a strong military together, in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 22, 2010. This is a developing story. We will continue to update... President Obama will give the commencement address at West Point at Wednesday, where he is widely expected to lay out his vision for
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