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  • Hulu video site auction attracts four bidders sources

    Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time after disagreement between ...

  • Should Microsoft really be stacking Surface against iPad

    (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft's "iPad vs. Windows" campaign now includes iPad vs. Surface RT. Is Microsoft picking the right fight? On the back ...

  • Microsoft cleared in Xbox patent spat with Google

    The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it won't review a final ruling that found Microsoft to be in the clear of infringing on patents held by Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired last year. The ruling ...

  • The kitchen countertop wants juice and smoothies

    (Credit: Williams Sonoma) The kitchen countertop is valuable real estate. With available counter space always at a premium, gadgets and appliances that are contenders for acreage require something to help them stand out from the crowd. Sometimes it's a matter of versatility and other times it's convenience that determines what gets to stay and what has to go. And sometimes ...

  • Watch the planets dance in a triple conjunction

    (Credit: European Southern Observatory) Triple planetary conjunctions are relatively rare in the night sky, but astronomers are about to be in for a real treat. The three brightest planets in our solar system as seen from Earth -- Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus -- will be coming together in the sky, "dancing" around each other over the course of several nights, starting Friday, May ...


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Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

Franois Ozons much-talked-about Swimming Pool features one of those Huh? endings that people love to discuss in serious tones as they walk out of the theater and drive home, as if theyre deconstructing some great philosophical paradox. Its an ending that calls into question everything that came before, and it will make many want to go back for a repeat viewing to relive the films narrative ... ...

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  • Angies List eyes year of transition as cashflow turns positive

    expects cashflow to turn positive this year as it spends less on acquiring new paid customers for its consumer review website, the company's co-founder said, fending off criticism of its business model by short-seller Citron Research.Chief Executive William Oesterle said Angie's List, which compiles reviews on everything from plumbers to pediatricians, said a recovery in U.S. consumer ...

  • Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-books prices.U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is set to oversee a trial on June 3, gave her view during a pretrial hearing on Thursday. She stressed that the view was not final and that she had only so ...

  • Foursquare partners with Gnip to sell check-in stream

    (Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) Foursquare is now selling unfettered access to its real-time stream of check-ins through Gnip, a popular reseller of social-media data. The companies announced the partnership Thursday in separate blog posts that celebrate the possibilities for ...

  • Xbox Ones unexpected pitch Its the Dad Box

    (Credit: PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) For years we've heard about the ever-widening appeal of video games and game-playing devices. Women gamers, senior gamers, casual gamers, and even the kind of social/mobile gamers who would never refer to themselves with the dreaded G word. But, when it was time to reveal its first major gaming hardware of the post-iPhone era (the first-gen iPhone was ...

  • Watch a brain surgery over Twitter Instagram and Vine

    , but it may be the first to employ 6-second video medium Vine as part of the proceedings. Surgeons on Thursday implanted a brain pacemaker to counteract the effects of Parkinson's disease in a patient and sent out Twitter updates using both Instagram and Vine. The procedure has generated such memorable tweets as "Removing the skin and drilling through the skull for electrode ...

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