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Toranadoes Rip Through Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa

One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, [more]

Weekend tech reading: Wi-Fi speed record broken, Doom photoshopped, Yahoo-Tumblr deal?

Doom remastered in 9600x7211 This is a remastered screenshot from the video game Doom. The original size was 320x240 and the final product is 9600x7211. This is the highest resolution Photoshop image I've done to date (although I've done higher [more]

Pfeiffer: Legality of IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups 'Irrelevant'

May 19, 2013 9:38am ABC This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service is “irrelevant,” but called the [more]

Google strips 8.8 million lines of code from Blink engine

Google recently announced that it was forking WebKit to create the Blink rendering browser engine in an effort to pare down the WebKit engine to the essentials for Chrome. Since WebKit is used on over seven different platforms, it had [more]

Suspect IDed in Fatal Home Invasion

A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a Nassau County police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Andrea Rebello [more]

Watch: Beyonce Second Pregnancy Rumors True?

So it appears the rumors may be true. Beyonce and jay-z may be expanding their family. May be beyonce's pregnancy rumors began flying earlier with clays blue ivy is going to have a new playmate. Or new rival. Abc's linzie [more]

Weekend Open Forum: Imagining Google's own country

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance at the end of the company’s I/O opening keynote on Wednesday. Among other things, he gave an emotional speech on how technology improves our lives, calling on people to focus on "creating [more]

Nurses to strike two San Jose hospitals on May 23 and 24

Hundreds of registered nurses plan to strike two San Jose hospitals on May 23 and 24 in a lengthy dispute over wages, benefits, pensions and staffing levels. Members of the California Nurses Association-National Nurses United announced they will walk out of [more]

Ofcom plans simplified phone numbers

By Kevin Peachey Personal finance reporter, BBC News Continue reading the main story Related Stories Tax advice call charges to be cut Cyber thieves profit via mobile malware The hidden charges on your mobile Some people are "put off" making important calls because of confusion over [more]

Kill My Wife, Feed My Dogs, 'Hitman' Allegedly Asked

May 17, 2013 6:49pm (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections.  But members of Congress [more]