Photos: Kilauea Lava Reaches the Sea

Into the Sea Photograph by Hugh Gentry, ReutersA spectacular natural phenomenon was on display early this week as lava from a vent in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano flowed into...

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Could Outgoing Republicans Hold Keys to 'Cliff' Deal?

Nov 30, 2012 1:45pm AP Photo/Carolyn KasterThe outlook for reaching some sort of bipartisan agreement on the so-called “fiscal cliff” before the Dec. 31 deadline is looking increasingly grim. Shortly after noon today, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, appeared before the cameras to say the talks had reached a “stalemate.”But there may be a glimmer...

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Florida pet spa mystery link to China's great firewall

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More Filipinos taking up hotel and restaurant management courses

MANILA: More and more young Filipinos are taking up hotel and restaurant management courses, all thanks to the country's booming tourism industry.Twenty-seven-year-old Daisy Carbaque can't wait to finish her household service course.In three months' time, she will finally be able to fulfill her dream of working in a luxury hotel.Ms Carbaque, a household service student at the Magsaysay...

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Crave giveaway: Element Case Sector 5 for iPhone, Joule II for iPad

This Sector 5 features a modular "multi-link" design.(Credit:Element Case)Congrats to Jamie M. of Portland, Ore., for winning a Vinci Tab IIAndroidtablet for kids in last week's giveaway. Now, down to business: Could youriPhone 5 use a new outfit to wear to all those holiday shindigs? You're hanging out in the right place. We're giving away a Sector 5 from Element Case, which calls the accessory...

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Pictures: Inside the World's Most Powerful Laser

Photograph courtesy Damien Jemison, LLNLLooking like a portal to a science fiction movie, preamplifiers line a corridor at the U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF).Preamplifiers work by increasing the energy of laser beams—up to ten billion times—before these beams reach the facility's target chamber.The project's lasers are tackling "one of physics' grand...

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Man Arrested in Fla. Girl's 1993 Disappearance

Police have arrested a 42-year-old man and charged him with murder in the case of a Florida girl who vanished almost 20 years ago.Andrea Gail Parsons, 10, of Port Salerno, Fla., was last seen on July 11, 1993, shortly after 6 p.m. She had just purchased candy and soda at a grocery store when she waved to a local couple as they drove by on an area street and honked, police said.Today,...

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Google's Ingress is a gold mine for augmented reality

The new game sees players do battle via smartphones as they roam their city – but it's paving the way for something even more interesting THERE'S a battle raging on Massachusetts Avenue. I'm hopelessly outnumbered, trying to take control of a patch of land at the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....

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Four SMRT bus drivers to be charged for role in illegal strike

SINGAPORE: Four SMRT bus drivers from China were arrested between Wednesday and Thursday for their role in an illegal strike at Woodlands Dormitory on Monday and Tuesday.They will be charged in court at 5pm on Thursday, Police said in a statement.- CNA/de !-- Zone Tag : Channel News Asia In Text innity_pub = "66368270ffd51418ec58bd793f2d9b1b"; innity_zone = "12251"; innity_width...

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Curiosity: Behind the amazing success (and disaster) of a mobile gaming hit

Curiosity lets people tap little "cubelets" to make them disappear. Writing messages is one motivation to keep on tapping at the 64 billion cubelets.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)For storied video game designer Peter Molyneux, November 6 was supposed to be the calm before the storm. But it became the storm itself when his newest project, Curiosity, arrived a day early and exploded in...

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