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Loneliness: An Under-Diagnosed Epidemic Among New CEOs

It's lonely at the top, according to a new survey that found fully half of all chief executives suffer from isolation and loneliness. When starting a business , many young entrepreneurs dream of the day when the enterprise has grown and they sit atop a successful company as CEO. This makes sense.

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This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex Movies, And Other Mechanical Surprises

The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you've probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.

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The Last Life Boat

After spending over 200 days on a cruise ship, Sixthman founder Andy Levine offers his perspective on what happened on the Costa Concordia. I am probably one of the few 41 year olds who has been on over 50 cruises in my lifetime and was actually on a cruise last weekend when the news of the Costa Concordia incident broke

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How Anonymous Is Tricking The Public Into Helping Them Take On The Feds

#OpMegaupload , a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets

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For Brands, Twitter’s Enhanced Profile Pages Make Every Tweet Count

HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?

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Video: Child in controversial ad speaks out

Georgia is running a controversial ad campaign about childhood obesity. The ads that run on television feature obese children. Mark Strassmann reports.

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The Return Of LiveJournal

LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users

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3 Timeless Parables For Regaining Perspective

If you are like me, sometimes I am so busy trying to catch up, stay even, or take the lead that I lose perspective. When things are going well, I am on top of the world.

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