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Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower

CNET - 1 hour 21 min ago
Water-saving device uses the length of your first shower as a benchmark, indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already!
Categories: Tech

Frugal Traveler: Q&A: Shirley Tafoya, President of Travelzoo North America

NYT Travel - 1 hour 36 min ago
Shirley Tafoya, Travelzoo's North American president, talks about what makes Travelzoo tick, how it refreshes its inventory of deals and why subscribers trust it.

Categories: Travel

Report: Tiger and Elin spotted kissing and hugging

Fox Sports - 1 hour 48 min ago
Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren were seen kissing for the first time since the scandal that rocked their marriage, Radar Online reported Tuesday.
Categories: Sports

1366 Tech leaps from pure silcon to solar wafer

CNET - 2 hours 6 min ago
Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.
Categories: Tech

Attacking Lawyers From the Right and Left

NYT Headlines - 2 hours 18 min ago
Is it fair to criticize lawyers for having represented Guantanamo detainees?

Categories: Top News

Economic Scene: Wishing for a Health Care Plan That Cuts Costs

NYT Headlines - 2 hours 18 min ago
President Obama’s health reform plan is a mixed bag for those who care about keeping down medical costs.

Categories: Top News

Gates in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Iran

NYT Headlines - 2 hours 39 min ago
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will discuss military cooperation and Iran’s nuclear program, officials said.

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Nasdaq 5,000: Ten years after the dot-com peak

CNET - 3 hours 21 min ago
Exactly 10 years ago, during the height of the dot-com mania, the Nasdaq reached its all-time high of 5,408.62 on March 10, 2000. It has never recovered.
Categories: Tech

Turning smartphones into air quality monitors

CNET - 3 hours 21 min ago
Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.
Categories: Tech

Why the explosion of social games excites veteran developers

CNET - 3 hours 21 min ago
When games like Farmville have 83 million users, designers who are used to working on games that took years to build have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook games.
Categories: Tech

SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin

CNET - 3 hours 21 min ago
The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.
Categories: Tech

China’s Exports Rise 46%

NYT Headlines - 3 hours 40 min ago
Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand in the U.S. and other Western markets.

Categories: Top News

New York Is Finally Taking Its Coffee Seriously

NYT Travel - 4 hours 4 min ago
Dozens of new cafes and coffee bars treat coffee making like an art, or at least a high form of craft.

Categories: Travel

Aid Group Attacked in Pakistan

NYT Headlines - 4 hours 28 min ago
Militants attacked the offices of an Christian aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people working for the organization, police said.

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Draft on Payday Rules Loses a Provision

NYT Headlines - 5 hours 43 min ago
Senator Bob Corker wants a proposed bank agency to be more lenient, but critics say consumers would be hurt.

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Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats

CNET - 6 hours 56 min ago
Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.
Categories: Tech

Analysis of Kobe's heroics

Fox Sports - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 07:17
Kobe's late clutchness ends the Lakers' skid and leaves experts scratching their heads.
Categories: Sports

Sports of The Times: St. John’s Takes an Opener, With No Fight From UConn

NYT Headlines - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:47
Connecticut was so apathetic that there is almost no way to gauge just where St. John’s is at the moment.

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Kobe's heroics ends Lakers' skid

Fox Sports - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:36
Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night.
Categories: Sports

United Tastes: Tacos in the Morning? That’s the Routine in Austin, Tex.

NYT Travel - Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:15
When it comes to breakfast tacos, which are stuffed with fillings like eggs and bacon, Austin, Tex., trumps all other American cities.

Categories: Travel