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Apple, Google Must Face Employee-Poaching Ban Antitrust Lawsuit

Google Inc. and Apple Inc. were among seven technology companies that must face a lawsuit claiming they violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees, a federal judge said.
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NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, and other researchers on fast-track computations using GPUs. The new version features an LLVM (low-level virtual machine)-based CUDA compiler, new imaging and signal processing functions added to the NVIDIA Performance Primitives library and a redesigned Visual Profiler with automated performance analysis and expert guidance. NVIDIA says the new enhancements are ways to advance simulations and comput
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Call Twitter From A Hacked Rotary Phone

The Rotary Emotiphone is a vintage rotary phone that’s been revived to tweet emoticons. This particular project, by Instructables user zvizvi comes with a list of predefined emoticons, each assigned to a single digit and matched with a uniquely colored LED.
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Sports
How Little I Give A S*** About The Pro Bowl (Infographic)

Just what it says. The NFL's version of an All-Star Game is without a doubt the most meaningless exhibition contest held by the major professional sports leagues
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Watch Snowmobiler Colton Moore’s Dramaic X-Games Crash After Missing a Holy Grab

The X-Games started this evening, which means freestyle snowmobilers are doing questionably sane stunts at the base of Aspen's Buttermilk mountain.
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Victoria Azarenka stuns Maria Sharapova in Australian Open final

Victoria Azarenka beats Maria Sharapova 6-3 6-0 in the Australian Open final to win her maiden Grand Slam title and become the new world number one.
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