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High School Student Suspended For Saying She ‘Understands’ Adam Lanza’s Rampage

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers   A 17-year-old student at California’s Life Learning Academy has been suspended for writing in a personal notebook that she understands the elementary school massacre Newtown, Conn. I understand the killings in Connecticut,” Courtni Webb wrote in a personal notebook, The Daily Mail reported Monday. “I know why he pulled the trigger. Why are we oppressed by a dysfunctional community of haters and blamers?” Adam Lanza killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook…

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How to Learn to Love Healthy Food (Even If You’re a Picky Eater)

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As reported on LifeHacker. by  Melanie Pinola One of the most common goals many of us have (beginning of the new year or not) is to start “eating healthy.” That’s easier said than done for those of us who don’t enjoy the usual healthy foods or are simply picky eaters. Whether you have the taste palate of a toddler or are bored to tears by health food, a few simple tricks could help get started eating better.…

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12 Tech Moments of 2012 That Made You Say ‘WTF?’

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN The tech world never ceases to amaze. Sometimes, people build amazing things. And sometimes, the people who build amazing things do other stuff that leaves your jaw on the floor. Some of it’s good. Some of it is oh so very bad. And some of it is just plain weird. Here, we give you our 12 most amazing tech moments of 2012. (Click on the images above.) Yes, you’ll…

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Monstrous Mechanical Marvels: 9 Enormous Gadgets

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As reported on Wired. BY BRIAN X. CHEN When it comes to phones, notebooks and portable game consoles, smaller is nearly always better. But sometimes a gadget just needs to be really, really huge. True to their size, gigantic contraptions accomplish tasks enormously useful to our everyday lives. Take for example the Bagger 293 (above), a 31.3-million-pound bucket-wheel excavator capable of mining 220,000 tons of brown coal in a day. And if the only cost-effective way…

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How Real Navy SEALs Would Handle Famous Movie Missions

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As reported on Wired. BY SHANE SNOW Navy SEALs are having the best year and a half ever. We’ve been inundated with tell-all books, documentaries, and big-budget action movies (the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty) about the special-ops frogmen… and then there’s that whole Team-Six-killing-Osama thing. We’re beginning to think there’s no task too big for these badasses. Just to make sure, we asked 17-year SEAL veteran Don Mann—author of the US Navy SEAL Survival Handbook and a Team Six…

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Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn

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As reported on Wired. BY DAVID AXE Lockheed Martin tests its Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton. Photo: Lockheed Martin The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness. But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” — including drugs, special nutrition, electroshock,…

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Some Xbox Live users unable to sign in, access Xbox website or use Marketplace (update)

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As reported on Polygon. By SAMIT SARKAR Some Xbox Live users are currently experiencing a variety of issues with the service, including an inability to sign in or access the Xbox website, and Microsoft is working on the problem. According to the Xbox Live status page, which a few of us are currently unable to load, some users are having trouble buying content on Xbox Live Marketplace, adding Microsoft Points to their accounts and viewing their…

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Road Tripping In The Digital Age

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER I’m just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We hit up a few different spots along the way, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Palm Springs. Not a crazy trip, but enough wandering around to go to a few places I’d never been to. The thing that amazes me about our…

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I’m Bored. What’s Next?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MICHAEL ARRINGTON It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored. At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports ofBlubbles are great for that). And other sectors, like business to business, is still under capitalized v. the consumer sector. But as a consumer and observer…

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Tech’s biggest misfires of 2012

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater You can’t win ’em all, right? Sure, 2012 saw its share of high points, but there were plenty of missteps along the way from companies both large and small. Unfinished products, serial delays, lawsuits and layoffs — after the break, we’ve got a list of some of the not-so-pretty moments in tech. PATENT WARS Would we be blowing your mind if we told you that the US patent system isfundamentally…

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