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Buzz on the Street: The S&P 500 Smashes Through 1600
2013-05-04 03:49:34| Appliances - Topix.net
All day and every day, some of the stock market's best and brightest traders and money managers share their ideas, insights, and analysis in real-time on Minyanville's Buzz & Banter.
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Foul ball smashes into man using iPad as camera
2013-04-18 18:25:27| CNET News.com
Is it really necessary to use an iPad as a camera? At one softball game in Northern Iowa, an iPad user is made to think twice about the iPad as Canon. But not for long. [Read more]
Spring Storm Smashes Snow and Temperature Records
2013-04-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: You name the type of precipitation, and odds are that it is falling somewhere between Texas and Minnesota on Wednesday, as ice storm warnings, winter storm warnings for heavy snowfall, and flood watches and warnings have all been issued across this region as a strong spring storm moves through. Forecast high temperatures on Wednesday, April 10, showing the sharp contrast ahead of and behind the Arctic cold front. The storm has smashed all-time snowfall records and set new benchmarks for a late...
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Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
2013-03-25 14:15:27| Extremetech
Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe's speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these new optical fibers to transfer data at 73.7 terabits per second -- roughly 10 terabytes per second, and some 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art 40-gigabit fiber optic links, and at much lower latency.
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2012 Smashes Record For Hottest Year In The Lower 48
2013-01-08 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: It's official: 2012 was the hottest year on record for the contiguous United States. In fact, it shattered the record set in 1998. The National Climatic Data Center says last year was also extraordinarily dry and drought conditions are persisting into 2013.