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Dying mother gives daughter a beautiful first birthday partyA mom losing her battle with breast cancer gave her daughter a first birthday to remember. Athena Krueger was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma — a form of breast cancer — while pregnant in 2013. Athena's husband Ben told Today that they learned of her lump and pregnancy s... Ellen Pao: I have no regrets suing Kleiner PerkinsNo one in Silicon Valley was quite as polarizing this year as Ellen Pao, the former venture capitalist who lost a landmark case this March against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for gender discrimination and retaliation. Pao's every action was scrutinized, her life turned upside down, as the t... GM adding Apple Car Play and Android Auto to all 2016 modelsRANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California— Apple and Google are both vying for a spot on your dashboard, but a year after the two companies unveiled their competing in-car systems — CarPlay and Android Auto, respectively — the rollout has been unquestionably slow Now, General Motors is taki... U2's longtime tour manager found dead in California hotelDennis Sheehan, U2's longtime tour manager, has died at a Southern California hotel, a day after the band kicked off a five-night stint in the Los Angeles area. U2 frontman Bono posted a statement Wednesday on the band's website about Sheehan's death. "We've lost a family member, we're still taking ... Airbnb is your best oppurtunity to snoop in strangers' stuffThe best part of staying in other people's houses is looking through their stuff. And judging them. Obviously. This Airbnb parody from Above Average knows what's up: when you stay at an Airbnb, you can't help but poke around your host's abode a little bit So what if there were an Airbnb rental that... Apple passes up Google as the world's most valuable brand, ranking saysApple has reclaimed a long-running title as the world's most valuable brand after Google's stint in the top spot briefly disrupted its reign last year, according to the annual BrandZ ranking compiled by marketing research firm Millward Brown Before the search giant ousted it last year, Apple had enj... Apple passes Google as the world's most valuable brand, ranking saysApple has reclaimed a long-running title as the world's most valuable brand after Google's stint in the top spot briefly disrupted its reign last year, according to the annual BrandZ ranking compiled by marketing research firm Millward Brown Before the search giant ousted it last year, Apple had enj... Nebraska becomes 1st traditionally conservative state to eliminate death penalty since 1973Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday in a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment. See also: American execution: A brief history of the death penalty in the U.S. Senators in the one-house Legislature voted 30-19 to overri... Why we can't blame the loss of mid-level jobs purely on robotsSeveral developed countries including the US, UK and Germany have seen their labour markets polarised in recent decades as the number of middle-skilled jobs has declined relative to that of low and high-skilled ones. Technology has been singled out as the main culprit: computers and automation have ... At near light-speed, the largest atom smasher unleashes record-breaking energyThe world's largest atom smasher is really cranking now: Protons zipped around the giant underground ring at near light-speed and collided head on, releasing record-breaking energies. The beauty of the fallout from these powerful particle smash-ups can be seen in images released May 21 by the Europe... |