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Weight Watchers made Erin Baker's business almost overnight, then nearly destroyed it even faster. In 1994 , Erin Baker, the founder and owner of Erin Baker's Wholesome Baked Goods, began making healthy breakfast cookies

Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded network is a lot like a small startup, full of twists and turns. In the latest twist a week later, Norman herself has been let go.

Despite the ongoing rush of alternative-fuel tech, the gasoline engine's having a moment thanks to advances from Jaguar and the Department of Energy. Jaguar CX75 million-dollar hybrid Last year Jaguar teased an incredible concept car, the CX75, that had an electric engine in each wheel and a pair of high-performance gas turbines in its truck to provide the electrical power

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Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony.

If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot

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Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 1,000 liters--the equivalent amount of gas you would need to get the nuclear fusion power of one liter of seawater.

Emily White offers further validation that the secret sauce in the deals space isn't savings. It's sharing and serendipity.

As debates begin, the facial coding experts at Sensory Logic examine the looks of the Republican hopefuls--Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump among them--already emerging as potential nominees in the 2012 Presidential election. Here, a guide to what emotional reactions--and votes--their faces are likely to garner

Content farms scored a win in the battle against Google's anti-spam search algorithms today as Demand Media, the company behind eHow , Cracked , and Livestrong , announced a quarterly revenue of $79.5 million--up 48% from the same quarter last year. Demand also reported a 32% increase in pageviews on owned and operated websites, but this doesn't mean that the company can rest easy quite yet.

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Alaska has the nation's highest rate of chlamydia and second-highest rate of gonorrhea as the sexually transmitted diseases spread in rural areas, according to the Alaska Division of Public Health.

The new conferencing system will get you up to speed so fast you can pick up the thread of the meeting even as it drones on, and on, and on... Do you have low-grade narcolepsy, or a low threshold for boredom

Intel has revealed a radical transistor design called 3-D Tri-Gate that it will use in its upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs. Great news for tech geeks, but what does that string of code words mean for your gadgets?