'Elite' Yelp reviewers live like stars
Few writers live a more glamorous lifestyle than Sukhraj "Suki" Beasla.
Internet
Nov 13, 2013
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Yelp effect reshapes how businesses interact with customers
Cassie Piasecki navigates by the stars. Where to dine next? Where to work out when she's traveling? She scans the Web, favoring those places with four- and five-star reviews, disregarding the rest.
Business
Nov 13, 2013
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LA education board approves continuing iPad plan
The nation's second-largest school district will move ahead with an ambitious $1 billion plan to provide iPads to all students after problems emerged when some of the first to get them used the tablets to tweet, text and ...
Other
Nov 13, 2013
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Beyond Twitter: The next wave of tech IPOs brews (Update)
Just as one high-tech breakthrough often paves the way for the next big thing, technology IPOs move in virtuous cycles, too.
Business
Nov 13, 2013
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Remains of late President Joao Goulart are exhumed
The remains of former Brazilian President Joao Goulart were being exhumed Wednesday due to suspicions that he may have been murdered on orders of the military regime that once ruled the country.
Other
Nov 13, 2013
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New antenna spreads good vibrations in fusion plasma
If you want to catch a firefly, any old glass jar will do. But when you're trying to bottle a star—the goal of fusion energy research—the bottle needs to be very special. A tokamak is one type of fusion bottle, capable ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 13, 2013
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Lifting fusion power onto an (optimized) pedestal
In a collaborative effort, researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom have developed a new technique that will help them optimize the transport barrier, or pedestal, in fusion plasmas, which will be key to increasing ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 13, 2013
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Apple wants $380M in patent trial with Samsung (Update)
Apple demanded Wednesday that Samsung Electronics pay it $380 million for copying vital iPhone and iPad features, as a billion-dollar patent fight between the world's two biggest smartphone makers resumed in a Silicon Valley ...
Business
Nov 13, 2013
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'Apple investigated for Italy tax fraud'
Apple is under investigation in Italy for allegedly failing to declare over 1.0 billion euros ($1.34 billion) to the tax man, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
Business
Nov 13, 2013
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Fusion foe lends a helping hand
Although oxygen is required to sustain life, oxygen sucks the life out of fusion by radiating away too much power from the high-temperature plasma. Accordingly, great efforts are expended to reduce the oxygen found in fusion ...
Plasma Physics
Nov 13, 2013
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