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Tesla Reveals 90-Second Battery Swap Tesla Reveals 90-Second Battery Swap

At a demonstration was held Thursday night at the Tesla design studio in Los Angles, Tesla Motors announced a new battery-swapping system for the Model S which allows owners to exchange a depleted battery for a freshly charged one in approximately 90...


Apple Announces Redesigned iOS 7 Apple Announces Redesigned iOS 7

Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 7, was announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday. The new version features a completely redesigned user interface bringing it more in line with competitor offerings from Goo...


Apple Starting IPhone Trade-In Program Apple Starting IPhone Trade-In Program

Apple is reportedly partnering with well known mobile-phone distributor Brightstar to implement an in-store iPhone exchange program later this month. Brightstar also works with AT&T and T-Mobile handling their iPhone exchange programs as refurbished...


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Politics and Law

Apple Found Guilty of E-Book Price Fixing Apple Found Guilty of E-Book Price Fixing

After three weeks of arguments, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise the price of e-books. The book publishers - Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan - were originally ...


Supreme Court Supreme Court "Eviscerates" Voting Rights Act

The United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, struck down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which dealt with the preclearance requirement as ...


7-Eleven Stores Seized by Feds for ID Theft 7-Eleven Stores Seized by Feds for ID Theft

Federal authorities indicted nine owners and managers of 14 7-Eleven franchises which were seized in New York and Virginia on Monday. Charges include stealing identities and exploiting more than 50 illegal immigrants over a span of 13 years in an all...


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Technology

Nokia Announces 41-Megapixel Lumia 1020 Nokia Announces 41-Megapixel Lumia 1020

At a press event today in New York City, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 1020 which combines a refined version of the 41-megapixel PureView camera technology with it's current Windows Phone efforts. Outside of the camera, the 1020 shares many of the same c...


Kickstarter Cancels $120,000 Scam Campaign Kickstarter Cancels $120,000 Scam Campaign

A fraudulent Kickstarter campaign for the "first 100% Japanese Kobe beef jerky" was stopped minutes before successfully hitting its funding goal...


Video Game Pirates Have Tables Turned Video Game Pirates Have Tables Turned

Video game piracy has been around as long as video games themselves. Developers have devised creative ways over the decades to deal with the problem, some more successful than others. Titan quest developers combated piracy by immediately dumping play...


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Health and Fitness

Scientists Offer Tips To Reduce Jet Lag Scientists Offer Tips To Reduce Jet Lag

Long-distance fliers have sworn by a number of different solutions to minimize the effects of jet lag. Recently, a group of researchers were interviewed the The ...


Bayer May Face Lawsuit for Multivitamin Cliams Bayer May Face Lawsuit for Multivitamin Cliams

The nonprofit group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, sent a letter to Bayer stating that it may file suit if the company continues to make unproven health claims regarding its multivitamins. The lawsuit would be for violating state con...


3D-Printed Tracheal Implant Saves Baby's Life 3D-Printed Tracheal Implant Saves Baby's Life

In a case featured in New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors at the University of Michigan used a custom created 3D implant which was inserted into the trachea of a 20 month old pa...


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Science

Startup Mass Produces Synthetic Spider Thread Startup Mass Produces Synthetic Spider Thread

Scientists have been able to create synthetic spider silk for some time now but always in extremely limited quantities. A new startup company in Japan has figured out a way to overcome existing manufacturing methods and commercialize the thread's pr...


Researchers Build Miniature Flying Robots Researchers Build Miniature Flying Robots

The authors of the research, all from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, modeled their miniature flying robot on the Drosophila commonly referred to as fruit flies. The ...


Kepler Finds Two Worlds In The Habitable Zone Kepler Finds Two Worlds In The Habitable Zone

A significant amount of astronomical research has been dedicated to mapping the skies looking for planets orbiting stars similar to our own and located in the Habitable Zone, also referred to as the "Goldilocks zone." The Goldilocks term is in refere...


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Economy

Banks Still Making Billions In Overdraft Fees Banks Still Making Billions In Overdraft Fees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a study which shows bank overdraft fees are costing consumers hundreds of dollars per year even with new regu...


Mileage Milestones Affect Used Car Pricing Mileage Milestones Affect Used Car Pricing

There are a number of factors which determine used car pricing like vehicle age and engine size. Mileage is also important, especially since it depreciates as soon as it's driven off of the lot, but not just total miles driven. Mileage milestones, a...


Credit Bureaus Detect Fraud Using Facebook Credit Bureaus Detect Fraud Using Facebook

The three major credit bureaus in addition to other companies are increasingly using social media for business purposes. A wealth of publicly available social data cross-referenced with traditional sources like bank records and credit card statements...


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International

China Joins U.S. To End N. Korea Weapons Pursuit China Joins U.S. To End N. Korea Weapons Pursuit

In an effort to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons campaign, China and the United States will be working together as rhetoric on the peninsula increases. Secretary of State John Kerry and China's foreign policy chief, Yang Jiechi, sp...


Hollande Proposes Payroll Tax On Rich Hollande Proposes Payroll Tax On Rich

During a time of wide spread austerity and other financial reforms, many countries have taken to cutting social programs while increasing taxes on the rich. In a second such attempt to tax the wealthy, French President Francois Hollande modified his ...


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