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Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are selling. Business swims in a sea of data.

Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t. The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying the company’s achievements in recent years--skyrocketing sales of media and a heritage of innovative, beloved gadgets. Then he brandished the new wonder, showing its surprising features and teasing with questions along the lines of "what should we charge for it?" before naming an equally surprising low price.

CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi speaks with Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anjelica Huston, Anna Kendrick, and screenwriter Will Reiser about their new film "50/50," a dramatic comedy about two friends coping with a cancer diagnosis.

Analysis of tweets from 2.4 million people in 84 countries confirms moods rise and fall according to pattern

A Massachusetts physics graduate student and former alt-rock drummer was arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Pentagon and on the Capitol. But unlike most wannabe terrorists, Rezwan Ferdaus appears to have actually understood how to make bombs. An American graduate student working on a physics MA was arrested yesterday after authorities discovered he was planning to attack the Capitol and Pentagon with explosives-laden drone aircraft.

Dr. T cofounded the technology giant that is National Instruments out of his garage more than 35 years with a $10,000 loan. NI's software and hardware is behind robotics and smart cameras to medical diagnostic equipment.

Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.

Facebook "Project Spartan" To Launch Next Week? A leaked Facebook mobile developers page has revealed the insides of a new mobile Facebook app, that TechCrunch identifies and confirms to be the rumored Project Spartan, Facebook's web-based HTML5 mobile app.

Cosmopolitan magazine’s Kate White moderates a relationship quiz between TODAY’s Hoda Kotb and guest cohost Nick Lachey. (TODAY)

For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel. For more than thirty years, Haruki Murakami has dazzled the world with his beautifully crafted words, most often in the form of novels and short stories

Forget self-driving cars ; Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL) have teamed up to work on mind-reading vehicle technology. Truly hands-free driving may not be too far off. Thought control via brain machine interface isn't a new idea--EPFL researchers are already working on mind-reading wheelchair systems

A defense contractor decided a man could not do his desk job because he was morbidly obese. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission says this is against the law. At 600 plus pounds, Ronald Kratz II wasn't having any problem performing his desk job at a defense contractor and had been receiving good evaluations at work.

Dr. Holly Phillips talks to Erica Hill and Chris Wragge about how prehypertension - blood pressure that is slightly higher than normal - can increase the risk of strokes.

Online dating scams may have hit more than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom and go largely unreported, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Tyson Foods, Inc. is recalling ground beef from a Kansas plant after four kids in Ohio became sick from E. coli