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The news prompted its PR team to send out a self-congratulatory note to journalists featuring the provocative subject-line, "Dropbox who?" File-sharing service YouSendIt.com recently shared some impressive numbers with us: The Campbell, California-based company surpassed 30 million unique users in the past 12 months. The news prompted its PR team to send out a self-congratulatory note to journalists featuring the provocative subject-line, "Dropbox who?" The goosed growth comes on the heels of YouSendIt's partnership with Yahoo Mail, which helped add a million users in roughly two months. But the uptick also comes at a difficult time for file-sharing services, which have been joined by more and more competitors eager to enter the lucrative cloud space

Johns Hopkins researchers say discovery could help them identify patients at greatest risk - and lead to new treatments

WENTWORTH, England (AP) -Luke Donald started his bid to become the No. 1 player in the world in style Thursday, overcoming wet and windy conditions to shoot a 7-under 64 and open up a two-stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship.

“If climate change drives temperature up a degree or two,” goes the common dismissal, “how bad could that be?” [More]

New study shows hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects 19 percent of people 24 to 32 years of age

LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday. Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste management schemes would encourage recycling, said Thomas Graedel, a professor at Yale University and one of the authors of a report on metals recycling rates at a briefing. [More]

By Anna Driver and Braden Reddall DALLAS/SAN RAMON, California (Reuters) - Large blocks of investors in the two biggest U.S. oil companies on Wednesday demanded more disclosure about the environmental risks of extracting oil and gas through hydraulic fracturing

PGT: He trails Lee Westwood by the slightest of margins for No.

By Marie Maitre DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - The European Union called on Thursday for worldwide "stress tests" on nuclear power plants, and said they would discuss stronger global safety standards during meetings with the Group of Eight leaders. [More]

A new survey determines that China is the most attractive country for renewable energy installations based on the size of its national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures, and suitability for individual technologies. In a resource-constrained world, any country with the ability to build out a clean energy infrastructure is going to have an advantage. While we'd like to think that American ingenuity and elbow grease would put us in a good position, it increasingly appears that China--land of coal-fired power plants and endless smog--is at the forefront

With Google's new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we'll use it. With

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There’s no number to text your vote for Coke and Ford, but the brands have fused themselves to Fox’s pop star machine. Here’s how

Having been a part of a horrible loss and a glorious victory at Valhalla Golf Club, Kenny Perry figures he's just about due for another emotional extreme.

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