Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder, Says Internet Freedom Facing Greatest Threat Ever

LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet's creation are facing their greatest-ever threat, the co-founder of Google Sergey Brin said in an interview published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Monday.Brin said the threat to freedom of the Internet came from a combination of factors,...

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Diamonds as a Commodity

The diamond industry has an image of “hiding behind smoke and mirrors,” said Charles Wyndham, who runs a pricing company. Could diamonds be the new gold? A small number of investment professionals around the world are competing behind the scenes to turn the gem into a commodity that would be available to investors in the way that gold has been...

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Why Medical Bills Are a Mystery

Rising health care costs are busting the federal budget as well as those of states, counties and municipalities. Policy makers and health care leaders have spent decades trying to figure out what to do about this.Yet their solutions are failing because of a fundamental and largely unrecognized problem: We don’t know what it costs to deliver health...

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This Is How Crappy Steakhouses Fool Their Customers

We know you're obsessed with steak, so we thought you should be warned. Time Magazine's Josh Ozersky has an awesome piece out called 'The Problem With The American Steakhouse' where he goes on a sophisticated rant on how we're getting screwed out of our ideal steakhouse experience.From Time:I don’t write this as a food pundit. I say it as...

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Eric Justin Toth, Alleged Child Pornographer, Added To FBI's Most Wanted List

The FBI added an alleged child pornographer to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives.Eric Justin Toth was 26 and a third-grade teacher in a Washington, D.C. private school in 2008 when authorities accused him of possession of kiddie porn.Another teacher at Beauvoir, an elite school, discovered graphic photos and videos of students on a school...

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Lady Gaga Tweets About Eating Disorders, Offends Followers

Yesterday, a controversial tweet joking about eating disorders from Lady Gaga -- the most popular celebrity on Twitter, with over 22 million followers -- gave rise to a slew of angry responses. Gaga wrote:@ladygaga Lady GagaJust killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger #PopSingersDontEat #IWasBornThisWayApril...

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Will Spam Turn Mobile Users Off?

It has been said that 97 percent of text messages are read within four minutes. In fact, we know that many are viewed in a shorter window than that. If we’re not those people ourselves, we have likely experienced family members, friends, and others who rudely take themselves out of a conversation to respond to the bing or ding of their phones.Beyond...

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