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| 100,000 protest at presidential palace Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 03:25 PM PST  The surge of anger across Egypt points to a long standoff between Morsi and a newly united opposition. Full Story | Top |
| Software guru McAfee says to seek asylum in Guatemala Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 06:39 PM PST  GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee, who is on the run from police in Belize seeking to question him in a murder probe, has crossed into Guatemala and said on Tuesday he will seek political asylum there. McAfee has been in hiding for three weeks since police in Belize said they wanted to question him as "a person of interest" about the murder of fellow American Gregory Faull, with whom McAfee had quarreled. McAfee smuggled himself and his girlfriend, Samantha, across the porous land border that Belize shares with Guatemala. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mars redux: NASA to launch another mega-rover Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:49 PM PST  If you thought NASA's latest Mars landing was a nail-biter, get ready for a sequel. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect being questioned in deadly NYC subway push Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 06:50 PM PST  Police questioned a suspect Tuesday in the death of a New Yorker who was pushed onto the tracks and photographed just before a train hit him. Full Story | Top |
| Sen. Marco Rubio just finished paying off student loan debt Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 06:07 PM PST  He announced Tuesday that he had finally finished paying off his student loan debt this year using proceeds from sales of his autobiography. Full Story | Top |
| Powerful typhoon kills at least 74 in Philippines Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:11 PM PST  Torrential floods from a powerful typhoon engulfed emergency shelters and an army truck carrying soldiers and villagers. Full Story | Top |
| Earliest known dinosaur discovered Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:03 PM PST  Researchers have found what could be the earliest known dinosaur to walk the Earth lurking in the corridors of London's Natural History Museum. Full Story | Top |
| Netflix to get Disney films in TV distribution deal Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:51 PM PST  Walt Disney gave a much needed boost to Netflix, becoming the first major Hollywood studio to use the video service to bypass premium channels. Full Story | Top |
| Middle school wrestler lets boy with cerebral palsy win match Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 02:22 PM PST  Justin Kievit, a middle-school wrestler from Tennessee, showed off his sportsmanship when he matched up against a boy who has cerebral palsy. Full Story | Top |
| Palestinians ask U.N. for settlement intervention Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 02:35 PM PST  The Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to call for an Israeli settlement freeze, President Mahmoud Abbas and his advisers decided Tuesday, as part of an escalating showdown over Israel's new plans to build thousands more homes on war-won land in and around Jerusalem. Full Story | Top |
| L.A. police: 4 arrests in killings of 4 outside home Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 07:38 PM PST A man accused of gunning down four people outside an overcrowded, unlicensed boarding house in Los Angeles was arrested at a Las Vegas casino-hotel along with three alleged accomplices, police said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Woman, 116, listed as 'world's oldest' dies in Ga. Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 06:21 PM PST  The woman who was listed as the world's oldest person died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home at age 116. Full Story | Top |
| Micro-bots could make a lot of macro-jobs much easier Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 12:41 PM PST Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing the world's smallest chain robot, less than the size of a dime, designed to link up to others like them and shape-shift into a range of micro-tools. Put together, four of these machines, with a specialized engine and covered with rings and fittings, look like a tiny, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video: Fake dinosaur unleashed in ‘Jurassic Prank’ Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 12:58 PM PST How do you think you would react if a T. rex suddenly appeared, jumping out of hiding in your own neighborhood? That's a question most of us will thankfully never know the answer to. But a few dozen people in Columbus, Ohio, got close to the real thing, being surprised by an animatronic dinosaur set [...] Full Story | Top |
| French clock fetches record $6.8 million at auction Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:56 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - An 1835 French clock sold for a record $6.8 million on Tuesday, the highest price ever paid for a clock at auction. The Duc d'Orléans Breguet Sympathique had been estimated by Sotheby's to sell for more than $5 million. Last auctioned in 1999 when it was sold by the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois for $5,777,500 - a record price at the time - the gold and red tortoiseshell quarter-striking clock was the highlight of Sotheby's watches and clocks sale. The sale totaled $11.7 million and also set records for any work by Breguet as well as for any French timepiece. ... Full Story | Top |
| Time-lapse video shows dozens of planes landing at airport in 25 seconds Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:13 PM PST Photography and film professor Cy Kuckenbaker has created a time-lapse video collage showing every plane landing at San Diego International Airport on the day after Thanksgiving from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. In an interview with PetaPixel, Kuckenbaker says he was inspired to create the video after seeing a montage by Ho-Yeol Ryu at Hannover [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientists working to predict next supervolcanic eruption Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 03:31 PM PST Could a supervolcano someday erupt in the U.S., burying most of North America in ash, dimming the sun and sending the continent into a volcanic winter? That's the focus of the Discovery Channel's "Volcano Time Bomb," part of the network's Curiosity series. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a supervolcano is one that possesses "a [...] Full Story | Top |
| New DVR tech gets very personal Tuesday, Dec 04, 2012 05:44 PM PST It won't be long before our televisions are watching us. You don't have to be paranoid or even a privacy expert to find this development a little creepy. Verizon has filed a patent on a new DVR technology that works by filming and recording viewers in order to send them targeted ads through their TV's. [...] Full Story | Top |
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