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7 Nov 2010
A brilliant solo goal from David Templeton helps Hearts win a stormy Edinburgh derby as Hibs captain Derek Riordan is sent off.
6 Nov 2010
Ponca City writes “Every year, millions of Americans pay needless penalties because they don’t file their taxes on time, forgo huge amounts of money in matching 401(k) contributions because they never get around to signing up for a retirement plan, and risk blindness from glaucoma because they don’t use their eyedrops regularly. James Surowiecki writes that procrastination is a basic human impulse, a peculiar irrationality stemming from our relationship Read the rest of this entry »
6 Nov 2010
Italian Francesco Molinari holds his nerve to win the HSBC Champions in Shanghai after a thrilling battle with world number one Lee Westwood.
5 Nov 2010
Francesco Molinari will take a one-stroke lead over Lee Westwood into the final round of the HSBC Champions as the Europeans dominate day three in Shanghai.
5 Nov 2010
vsolepr writes “Today’s scheduled launch was scrubbed because of a gaseous hydrogen leak near the spacecraft’s external tank. This is the fourth time in the past week that Discovery’s launch was delayed due to various leaks and electrical issues. NASA now is aiming for a launch date no earlier than Nov. 30.”
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4 Nov 2010
RandyOo writes “Someone wrote in to The Consumerist to report an interesting discovery: while shopping online for a car loan, Capital One offered him different rates, depending on the browser he used! Firefox yielded the highest rate at 3.5%, Opera took second place with 3.1%, Safari was only 2.7%, and finally, Google’s Chrome browser afforded him the best rate of all: 2.3%! A commenter on the article claims to have been previously employed by Capital Read the rest of this entry »
4 Nov 2010
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will spend a week in the United States undergoing intensive conditioning work on the ankle problem that is troubling him.
3 Nov 2010
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti believes striker Nicolas Anelka is in the form of his life after he helped the Blues reach the Champions League last 16.
3 Nov 2010
Trailrunner7 writes “Adobe has moved up the release date for the patch for the critical bug in Adobe Flash Player revealed last week, and now plans to have an emergency fix ready on Thursday. The company still plans to patch Reader two weeks from now. The vulnerability in Flash also exists in Reader and researchers said last week that attackers had already begun exploiting the bug in Reader by the time that Adobe acknowledged the problem and published Read the rest of this entry »
2 Nov 2010
Trailrunner7 writes “A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help to further research from computer scientists and linguists, who are looking at ways in which people can still be identified through textual Read the rest of this entry »