"Kill Hollywood," is the latest battle cry from Silicon Valley. If you are Paul Graham, that's not a bad way to motivate young would-be founders to create new startups.
«@wmiddelkoop Here's what you really need to know about ACTA...
#Santorum: 'There Is No Palestine' http://t.co/B8tPCvae...
Hungary’s Economy Minister György Matolcsy is presently at an extraordinary hearing before Parliament’s budget committee.
Britain's nuclear deterrent would have to remain in Scotland even if the
country voted for independence, Royal Navy chiefs have concluded. (Telegraph: 'Nuclear subs will stay in Scotland, Royal Navy chiefs decide'.
Growing political hostility between Turkey and Israel has led to the Israeli military cancelling the export permit for UAVs and support services for Turkey. This will cost the firm that sold Turkey Heron UAVs some $90 million.
The answer: George Romney's parents were U.S. citizens, so at birth he also became a natural-born U.S. citizen.
At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder of Ushahidi, the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya.
Twitterers have a message: Tomorrow, turn off the tweets.
A new avenue of treatment could fight two of the most prominent cancers — effectively hitting both leukemia and breast cancer.
Pledging to "kick the asses" of activists hacking the UFC website to protest the company's support of anti-piracy bill SOPA, Dana White compared the protestors to 9/11 terrorists and threatened "you're gonna get bin Laden'd" in an interview with...
RT @AllisterHeath: PM WAGES WAR OVER TOBIN TAX - and how fears mount in Brussels UK may eventually quit EU| City A.M.: http://t.co/gxEVqOm5 via @AddThis...
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Moneycontrol.comSingapore raises sea defences against tide of climate changeReutersBy David Fogarty | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A 15-km (10 mile) stretch of crisp white beach is one of the key battlegrounds in Singapore's campaign to defend its hard-won...
Global Voices OnlineSingapore: Corruption Scandal in Least Corrupt NationGlobal Voices OnlineOver the Chinese New Year, the news broke that the heads of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) are being investigated...
Iran is moving closer to the point when it will be too late to destroy its nuclear facilities with a precision air strike, Israel's defence minister has warned (Iran moving closer to stage where it will be too late to destroy nuclear facilities, Israel...
A man who downloaded recipes on how to make explosive devices onto a pen drive has been jailed.
We are poisoning our land, our food & our children 4 the sake of corporate no-till farming.
Some users have said they’ll boycott Twitter on Saturday. (RT @SpeakingofU: Will you join the #TwitterBlackout tomorrow to protest new blocking/censorship rule?
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://t.co/iFrJ4Yn9...
Fears of an emerging credit crunch in the eurozone increased on Friday as data showed a sharp slowdown in bank lending to the private sector, despite recent unprecedented injections of liquidity.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement authorities do not generally have a right to affix a GPS tracking device to a suspect's car without first obtaining a valid warrant.
RT @FearDept: We're happy to see #Monsanto investor @BillGates leading the War Against Biodiversity: http://t.co/m8mETtnr #GMO #WEF #FearBiodiversity...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings for Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus indicating there is a 1-in-2 chance of further downgrades in the next (RT @jennablan: Fitch cuts Italy, Spain, other...
Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back...
Twitter has hopped aboard the censorship bandwagon, announcing (or rather, tweeting would have been more appropriate, although it would be pretty hard to squeeze in everything that they want to say of such magnitude in 140 characters or less) that...
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