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Former MySpace Exec Starting Facebook Competitor

A social network with more privacy controls, Mark Zuckerberg's latest passion, a new ranking of top VC firms, and the rest of the day's entrepreneur news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.

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Hot Apple Rumor Of The Day: An ARM A5-Powered MacBook

There are whispers from a pretty reliable source that the House of Jobs is testing a MacBook computer powered by one of its own ARM A5 chips, straight from an iPad. It may be the Mac of the future.

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How Much Do Wildfires Cost in Terms of Property Damage?

A 1 degree Celsius rise in average global temperature could cause the number of acres burned annually in the U.S. West to rise by as much as 400, 500 or even 600 percent in certain regions, according to calculations made by the University of Washington and the U.S. Forest Service.

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Robert Falcon Scott’s South Polar Journey: In His Own Words [Recordings]

For a limited time, "Greater Glory: Why Scott Let Amundsen Win the Race to the Pole" , a feature from the June issue of Scientific American is being made available for fans of Scientific American's page on Facebook. Read it now or become a fan

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iFive: PayPal Sues Google, Intel Making Peer Chips?, Windows Phone App Price, Twitter Adds "Shuffle" Button, Google Gives Us $10

1. No sooner Google reveals Wallet , than a lawsuit about mobile selling pops up. It's from PayPal , complaining that Google's mis-appropriated secrets form inside PayPal's own mobile payments business, secrets it gained by hiring two former PayPal executives: Stephanie Tilenius (head of Mobile payments at Google, and the person who presented Wallet) and Osama Bedier

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Terrorist ‘Pre-crime’ Detector Field Tested in U.S.

By Sharon Weinberger of Nature magazine Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security program that can supposedly 'sense' whether you are planning to commit a crime. Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned

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Domestic Cats Roam Far And Wide

Lions roaming the savannah are a staple of nature documentaries. But the millions of little lions that live in our homes and neighborhoods also lead fascinating lives. We know more about those lives now, because a two-year-long study used radio-transmitters to track cats at the southern edge of the cities of Champaign and Urbana in Illinois.

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