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The Romney campaign ad used almost entirely old footage of Tom Brokaw reporting on Newt Gingrich's legal troubles.

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Sometimes you have to see things to truly appreciate their magnitude. Apple’s latest quarter was so massive that MG had to write two posts about it: $46 billion in revenues, 37 million iPhones sold, 15 million iPads. The chart above, which comes from Asymco (see a fully interactive version here), shows how unusual this quarter was for Apple. The quarter was driven by iPhone and iPad sales. And you can see that by looking at the blue and red lines, which show unit sales of each. iPhone sales went  show all text

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Here’s some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals. 37signals, for those of you not familiar with the inner workings of the machine we call the Internet, is a web shop founded by Ruby on Rails creator DHH (short for David Heinemeier Hansson) and Jason Fried. In terms of UI leadership and thought leadersh...  show all text

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You can submit your resume by visiting this link. If you know anyone who would be a great fit for this position, please pass the link along. Thanks!

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Greek officials reject German proposals for a eurozone budget commissioner to oversee spending, as agreement nears on a second bailout for Greece.

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Love With Food will send you a monthly box of curated goodies and will also donate a meal to children. Social good at its best.

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Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing. Adobe posted a YouTube video named “Sneak Peek #1″ on Photoshop’s official channel last week. In the video, senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives viewers a glimpse of CS6′s Camera Raw 7. In the video, Hughes loads a typical, not-very-high resolution picture he took of the Eiffel Tower at dusk with his cameraphone. He then goes to work with CS6′s Camera  show all text

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Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. When I was a kid, I read tons of superhero comic books. I fantasized about superpowers, but the storylines about heroes with massive Achilles’ heels really held my attention the most. They saved the world but had screwed up personal lives, made lots of mistakes, and often acted like complete assholes. In retrospect, I related to their...  show all text

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Sheldon Adelson is not running for office – but his cash could swing Tuesday's Florida primary Abraham Foxman, the amiably chatty director of the Jewish civil rights group, the Anti-Defamation League, has a story to tell about his friend, the 78-year-old multi-billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Adelson, who is America's eighth richest man and has given millions of dollars in support of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid, was having dinner with Foxman in Las Vegas several years ago. Foxman ...  show all text

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Despite its “rogue site” status and various other warnings, when MegaUpload went down last week it still came as a shock. But what came next was unprecedented, a dramatic reaction in cyberlocker land that took out vast libraries of digital content and capacity. The perception of the established ground rules had been changed, without the passing of a single new law. FBI, arrests by huge numbers of police, enormous cash and asset seizures overseas, reward program scrutiny, knowledge of payouts to...  show all text

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The New York tech scene has certainly received a lot of hype, but a lot of people are waiting for results that prove it’s more than just that. Proof that New York is really a tech ecosystem that is here to stay, no matter what may happen to Foursquare and Gilt. This letter to shareholders from Betaworks Founder and CEO John Borthwick is one of the first pieces of evidence I’ve seen that New York is for real. The letter was sent out on Friday, and leaked to us by a source. There’s some interesti...  show all text

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People's plutocrat Bill Gates talks about friendly rivalry, and how to get bankers to part with their money. By Mary Riddell.

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The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to your work. To check how can you be in their opening page, CLICK HERE As [...]

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These are the faces of America's missing men, women and children - their families left behind. Help find them.

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At least eight sea lions have been shot dead in the US state of Washington in the past few weeks, wildlife officials say.

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The banks that are engaged in a Manhattan land grab seem to be in the business of taking our money but not in the business of giving it back.

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You went to an Ivy League school, you mastered the Socratic method as an infant and solving the Rubix cube in less than 5 minutes is your favorite party trick; in short, you’re brilliant. ...

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