Six French doctors and pharmacists have been cleared of indirectly causing the deaths of 117 children by injecting them with growth hormones tainted with the human form of mad cow disease.
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Apple could face lawsuits over Jobs
Reuters – 1 hour ago By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Apple Inc probably will be sued by investors unhappy with the company's about-face on the health of its visionary chief executive, but the law is not clear on what duty the company has to disclose personal … Steve Jobs a 'national treasure' BBC News Apple chief Steve Jobs: Health timeline since 2003 Telegraph.co.uk Wall Street Journal – Macworld UK – guardian.co.uk – CNET News all 1,797 news articles |
Ron Barrett has whooped up a firestorm with his blog post “Why Windows 7 Will Crush Linux” but Linux isn’t going away anytime soon. (That’s not to say W7 won’t be a success.) Some reasons more folks will fall in love with Linux: Free beer is, well, free. Upgrades are up to you. Linux and Mac crowds have banded together.
The Macomb County moon man stood next to his forlorn flying saucer, which sat perched on milk crates in a weedy patch along Interstate 94. He railed against corporate conspirators and misinformed scientists. SEE VIDEO
A December video tutorial teaching viewers how to modify a netbook to run Mac OS X has landed tech magazine Wired in hot water with Apple’s legal department.
Here’s a list of history’s honeys, machines which were not only big sellers but earned themselves a place in the hearts of the buyers. If you are the kind of person who names your dead, inanimate devices, its likely that you christened at least some of these.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: “A number of sites are reporting that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence till June at least. Speculation over Jobs’ possibly failing health has run rampant in the past few weeks. Prior to the recent MacWorld show, Jobs said he had a hormone deficiency that had caused him to dramatically lose weight. In a memo today Jobs told workers his health issues are more complex than he thought.” Reader Bastian227 adds a link to this letter from Steve Jobs on Apple’s website, which also says that Tim Cook will be responsible for daily operations, though Jobs will remain involved with major strategic decisions.
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Apocalyptic Machine Scultpures are Wonderful in a Morbid, Sinister Sort of Way
Cheese makes some foodies jump up and down like little kids, but behind that heavenly taste and texture lies bacteria, mammal stomach lining, pesticides and pure fat. To ripen cheese and add flavor, bacterial strains are freely injected and smeared into the substance. But not all have been accounted for, a new study finds.
The TiVo senior programmer from San Jose spent a week modifying his 25-year-old washing machine to send a message to Twitter when his laundry is ready.
