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Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, was testifying about how the company was able to avoid billions of dollars in taxes.        

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Making pizza out of insect meal, instantly It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get whatever they wanted at the…

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Michael Douglas’s faaaaabulous portrayal of Liberace won’t be eligible for an Oscar, since the droll Steven Soderbergh-directed biopic “Behind the Candelabra” debuts May 26 on HBO before playing theatrically (and …

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Credit: Campbell, Catarina D., and Evan E. Eichler. “Properties and rates of germline mutations in humans.” Trends in Genetics (2013). What a great age we live in. Until…

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Many people in their first trapeze class expect it to be a one-time experience. But for some, it turns into a full-time hobby.

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by Kiki Sanford Inside a nondescript office building in Mountain View, California, a gathering took place recently that might have been a glimpse into the future. At first, the people, …

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The suspect’s attorney said the video will clear his client in what observers call an unusual case. Police in suburban Aurora opted not to charge the man after interviewing the…

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Sprint Nextel raised its offer on Tuesday for the nearly 50 percent stake in Clearwire that it does not already own, just hours before shareholders were scheduled to vote on its …

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Chicago Dance Crash choreographer Jessica Deahr proved her mettle and then some with last year’s “Gotham City,” a rich assembly of styles, shrewdly managed by her smart design.   …

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Part 3 of 3: If the school board votes Wednesday to close Kohn Elementary School, some of its students will be sent farther south in Roseland to Lavizzo Elementary. Longtime Kohn volunteer…

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BILL ZWECKER: A Pattinson friend is convinced the “Twilight” couple is over because he reportedly removed his dogs from Stewart’s house.

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You probably know Cat or Caterpillar as the guys in yellow and black, makers of construction equipment and those boots the cool kids were wearing for a little while. Now…

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Give DuPage a chance to pluck off useless government There’s a bill heading to Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk that would make DuPage County a laboratory for efficient local government.   …

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A techie’s San Francisco home has its own Twitter feed. Will yours be next? At first glance, you’d never guess there’s anything unusual about Tom Coates’s San Francisco home. Nestled…

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David Karp, founder of Tumblr, got his education not in high school or college but in the world of Internet start-ups.        

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Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world. The founder of once-popular virtual world…

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The “internet” asked Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to make Flickr awesome again. Or, at least, that’s the way she tells it. But however the message got across to Yahoo’s new…

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The head of Cisco says that the computer business and networking are collapsing into each other, as sensors and a bigger Internet deliver more information to analyze. The implication is …

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Using data collected by drones, a research team is building 3-D maps of Norway’s geology to help companies track down hidden mineral wealth. We’ve heard a lot from the unmanned…

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You may not know this, but there is a celebrity data geek who isn’t named Nate Silver. This other famous statistician is a rock star in the global health and …

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