Mark Zuckerberg is going to be a dad! The Facebook CEO, 31, announced the happy news on his Facebook wall that he and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan , are expecting a daughter. In the post, Zuckerberg opened up about the couple’s struggles with starting a family and the “lonely…
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Coast Guard officials say it will likely be a couple more days before they can definitively say what caused a miles-long oil slick to materialize off the Santa Barbara County coast this week, but an expert said Thursday it was more than likely the result of ocean-floor seepage. Beaches all…
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Microsoft says its’ new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released as a free download. That’s a far cry from the company’s goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years. Microsoft says it’s…
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Facebook is attracting advertising dollars to where its users are — on mobile devices. The world’s largest online social network surpassed expectations on all fronts in the second quarter. It grew not just profit and revenue, but also its already-massive user base and mobile advertising, as well as usage of…
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The California National Guard is using a drone to search El Dorado National Forest for a missing San Francisco teacher, marking the first time the Guard has used an unmanned aircraft for a search-and-rescue mission. The drone will collect images in real time, allowing searchers on the ground to make…
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Free-falling miles above the desert, his test spaceship ripped to pieces and the frigid air hard to breathe, pilot Peter Siebold struggled through crippling injuries to turn on his oxygen and just to stay conscious. Siebold was aware that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo had violently disintegrated but then blacked out. When…
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Yelp is getting skewered by investors after the online business review service sank to a second-quarter loss and dimmed its outlook amid a slowdown in its digital advertising sales. The developments announced Tuesday raised more doubts about Yelp’s ability to survive on its own, although CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told analysts…
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The Apple Watch is heading to some Best Buy stores ahead of the holiday shopping season. Best Buy Co. says it will sell the Apple Watch at 100 of its stores and on its website on August 7. Another 200 Best Buy stores will offer the smartwatch before the end…
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Rochester, whose fortunes have risen and fallen with the demand for futuristic technologies from former powerhouses like Xerox and Kodak, is looking for its next big breakthrough in the field of integrated photonics, a light science with the potential to transform communications, medicine and national defense. Federal, state and local…
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As President Barack Obama faces pressure to discuss human rights in his first official visit to Ethiopia this weekend, a unique lawsuit back home is challenging whether the African country can spy on an American by turning his computer into a giant recording device. The federal case alleges Ethiopian government…
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