Nuclear Waste Management Problem Remains

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 4:53 p.m.
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Americans have good reason to be scared of nuclear power. After being pummeled for decades with images of nuclear war, nuclear winter, and now nuclear terrorism, it's hard to stay calm about the subject. But according to a report published in Science, Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future spent so much time on fixing the country's nuclear waste program that it completely neglected to deal with the public's fears ... It's a big problem--there are over 50 reactors currently

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The Talent Drains From Spotify: Maybe They Know Something We Don't

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 4:46 p.m.
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Last week, Spotify lost its chief designer, Ragnar Anderson, to Facebook, prompting Austin Carr to wonder whether Facebook was starting up its own music service. This week Paul Brown, the Senior Vice President of SVP of Strategic Partnerships, is off to pastures new, leaving the music streaming service after a year and a bit. Talent drains are nothing new, but Brown's departure to a non-music-related startup, after just 16 months in such a senior position, must have Daniel Ek and Martin

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An Authentic Few Minutes With Web Video Pioneer David Prager

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 3:57 p.m.
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The Revision3 cofounder talks about how to get started in Web video, Hulu, and the future of Internet TV ... When Comcast swallowed up the geek-run TechTV and merged it with G4 in the early aughts, a small group of the channel's former hosts broke from the corporate decision to start their own network. "We decided to continue to make the hardcore, niche techy-stuff," says David Prager, a veteran of TechTV. "And we were kind of in the right place at the right time--basically at the birth of

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Intel's Biggest Rival: ARM Chips in Servers and Smartphones

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:44 p.m.
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Forget Intel versus AMD--that was a chip-maker battle of yesteryear, played out inside your desktop PC. Now the real CPU war is happening inside smartphones and servers, where Intel is playing a desperate game of catch-up to ARM and a few new pretenders, and there're billions of dollars at stake ... Server chip maker Smooth-Stone has just raised $48 million of venture cash to fund development of ARM-based server chips. The 12-man company is just two years old, but its bold plans to challenge

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Facebook's Dislike Button a Rogue Spam Scam

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:23 p.m.
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Behold, the new Dislike button for Facebook users, an idea mooted on this very website last year. Only it's not a button, it's not from Facebook, and it can access your Facebook account. The BBC reports that the scam installs a rogue application, "which does not function as a dislike button" it reiterates, for those of you who are still not quite sure whether it's kosher or not ... On the surface, the user's Facebook page updates with a link and a message. "I just got the dislike button, so now

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One On Ones Are Business Meetings

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Published Aug. 15, 2010 at 11:12 a.m.

This guidance addresses questions about the purpose and value of One on Ones, particularly for those directs who challenge the need for them ...

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JetBlue Responds to Entire Internet With Single Blog Post

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 6:03 p.m.
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The Steven Slater saga continues to twist and deepen, with several outlets suggesting that the working-class-hero-has-an-understandable-meltdown story may have a few holes in it. Meanwhile, Slater's employer is in an increasingly tricky position. If one of their employees became a folk hero for quitting, then didn’t that make them something of, well, a folk villain? ... For the first 48 hours following Slater’s famous beer slide, JetBlue said nothing. Then, on Wednesday, JetBlue made the

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McStatins Happy Meal Would Prevent Heart, Big Mac Attacks: Frustrated Cardiologist

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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If, and exactly how, governments should regulate fast food joints has been a much-discussed topic of conversation for decades. And it's still a largely unresolved matter, which is why one U.K. cardiologist has come up with a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"-style solution: Fast food restaurants should give away free drugs to help combat heart disease. Meanwhile, as the science of fast, cheap DNA testing advances in leaps and bounds, the U.S. government is pondering a bizarre and icky

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"OnIt" Online Men's Lifestyle Mag to Help You Get Microsoft Abs

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 1:51 p.m.
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Watch your ripped back, David Zinczenko. The campaign for Bill Gates as Editbro in Chief starts here ... Last week, Microsoft filed a trademark application for the name "ONIT," a men's lifestyle website. Its full description reads thus. "An Internet website portal featuring information of general interest to men." So that'll be ladies, sports, beer, technology, and ladies, then. Or, it says on the filing tin, "information in the field of entertainment, sports, fitness, recreation and leisure

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: "I'm Just a Manager"

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:21 p.m.
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Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out ... Carol Bartz is used to being watched. A year and a half ago, she took the high-profile job as CEO of Yahoo, the iconic but struggling tech company. She's become a celebrity CEO whose management is continually analyzed in the

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