Google and Facebook, today’s web-world leaders, are at war. And if the much-speculated Facebook e-mail service turns out to be true, then it will stop being the cold kind.
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Study: Are Google Searches Affecting the Stock Market?
A joint study by academics in Germany and the U.S. sheds new — and disturbing — light on the power of Google.
#IAmSpartacus: Twitter Rallies Around Man Convicted For Joke Tweet
This either proves or totally invalidates Malcolm Gladwell’s thesis.
Another Qantas Flight Makes Emergency Landing
One emergency landing is unfortunate, but three might be regarded as careless.
The 50 Best Inventions of 2010
Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Head over to TIME.com for the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts.
Will ‘E-Marriages’ Be The Next Big Thing For Same-Sex Couples?
A same sex couple in Texas wasn’t letting a silly thing like state law keep them from marrying one another.
Palin E-Mail Hacker Meets His Destiny
Is This the Most Amazing Invention of All Time?
It’s not everyday that an invention gets NewsFeed quite this excited.
Treading the Circuit Boards: Robot Actress Takes to the Stage
A life-like robot called Geminoid F makes its acting debut in Japan. Does this spell the end for “real” performers?
Next on the Soon-to-Be-Extinct List: The White Pages
In yet another sign of the analog communication tree falling in the forest of the digital landscape, companies are beginning to say goodbye to the one-time mainstay of finding people: the White Pages.
To Infinity and Beyond: Watch This Paper Plane Fall to Earth From Orbit
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Why yes, and it’s made of paper straws.
Paging Michael Crichton: World’s Oldest and Cutest Dino Embryo Found
It’s been a banner week for oldest things!