Click to see full image, with diameters of Earth and Jupiter for scale. Credit: NASA/SDO Space weather forecasters are keeping a close watch on a large collection of sunspots that could unleash blasts of energy or charged particles toward Earth in the coming days. Sunspot region 1476, the dark patch resembling the Hawaiian Islands in the photo at left, is located near the center of the sun s face as seen from Earth but has yet to act out in any major way.
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Emerging headphones purveyor 50 Cent studied a predecessor closely before pressing play on his own venture. When Beats by Dre headphones debuted in 2008, the size of the $100-plus headphone market was a faint $92 million. Four years later, the good doctor's b-emblazoned earpieces have achieved near ubiquity, and the $100-plus segment has been cranked up to $512 million.
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Dressings for your dish. | Photo by Michael Rosenstein, CC. Click on image for license and information.
Read More »Seeing is Believing: The Story Behind Henry Heinz’s Condiment Empire
Dressings for your dish. | Photo by Michael Rosenstein, CC.
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The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary. Would you buy a $5-for-$10-at-Lioni-Italian-Heroes coupon from this man? Groupon CEO Andrew Mason wants to know.
Read More »Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?
The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary.
Read More »Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?
The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary. Would you buy a $5-for-$10-at-Lioni-Italian-Heroes coupon from this man
Read More »Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?
The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary.
Read More »Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?
The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary. Would you buy a $5-for-$10-at-Lioni-Italian-Heroes coupon from this man
Read More »Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?
The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary.
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The Bronx Zoo Monkey House. | Photo by Geoff Stearns, Creative Commons
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Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva, two undergrads at the University of Southern California, are building a tool to help event planners get better attendance. Sick of people flaking out on your events?
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