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ISIS Is Closing In On Iraq's Most Important Dam

Extremist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are bearing down on the biggest piece of Iraq's water infrastructure, The New York Times reports. Extremist militants are beginning to...

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Here's The Shifting Trend That's Skewing Average US Home Prices

Following the recession, sales of tbe more expensive homes, those in the $200,000-$400,000 price range and higher, tumbled. Meanwhile, sales of homes under $200,000 surged.More recently, this trend...

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Here's Your First Look At Samsung's New Smartwatch

The first devices running Google's new operating system for smartwatches, Android Wear, launch this summer.Samsung gave us quick look at its first Android Wear Device, the Gear Live. The Gear Live is...

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LearnVest Founder Explains Why You Shouldn't Let Your Calendar Control Your Days

When you're running a business, it's easy to live by your calendar, that arbiter of meetings, to-dos, and deadlines. But you shouldn't, says self-professed productivity obsessive Alexa von Tobel.As...

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CHART: Few World Cup Teams Spend More Time On The Ground With Apparent...

One of the biggest criticisms of soccer and the World Cup is amount of time players spend on the ground with apparent injuries. Geoff Foster of the Wall Street Journal took a look at the first two...

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Emails Reveal Former IRS Official At Center Of Scandal Suggested Targeting A...

Former IRS official Lois Lerner suggested referring U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for an audit in 2012, according to new emails released by the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee...

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Facebook Disclosed Its Diversity Numbers, And They're Pretty Bad

Tech companies have been releasing their diversity numbers recently, and Facebook is the latest to reveal its stats. And the numbers are hardly surprising based on what we've seen so far from Yahoo and...

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Google Figured Out How To Turn Any Phone Into A Virtual Reality Headset For...

At the end of Google I/O, Google's annual developers conference on Wednesday, Android boss Sundar Pichai announced that audience members would be getting some swag. Among the takeaways: A piece of...

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Google Partners With Samsung And Takes Shots At Microsoft To Win Over...

Google showed off a bunch of new products for business users on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference.Here's the rundown:Drive for Work: For $10/user/month businesses can get unlimited...

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Someone Copied The Yo App And Called It Hey

Yo, the bite-sized messaging app that only lets you send your friends a "Yo" notification, already has a competitor called Hey.Competitor might be too generous of a description, because everything...

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CLIFF ASNESS: I Am Still A Net Cynic When It Comes To Stock Picking

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.ASNESS: I Am Still A Net Cynic When It Comes To Stock Picking (Morningstar)...

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GoPro Goes Public Thursday And Shares Are Priced At $24

Camera company GoPro will hold its IPO Thursday morning. On Wednesday night, the company initially priced its shares at $24.GoPro makes video cameras that can clip on just about anything and record HD...

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Cable Industry Analyst: 'Aereo Is Far From Dead'

With the Supreme Court ruling that Aereo's business model is illegal— that it can't grab broadcast television from the airwaves and pipe them over the internet — the question is: what will happen to...

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These Are Teens' Favorite E-Commerce Sites

More teenagers are going online to shop than ever before — especially boys. 86% of teen boys shopped online this spring, compared to just 78% in spring 2012. Meanwhile, 76% of teen girls shopped online...

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SAMSUNG: Our Next Earnings Report Is Going To Be Pretty Bad

Samsung's CFO warned that the company's earnings for Q2 this year won't be as good as it initially expected, according to the Wall Street Journal."It doesn't look good," Lee Sang-Hoon, the CFO, told...

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Joyent Is About To Replace Its CEO (Again) With An Executive Poached From Cisco

Cloud computing player Joyent, one of VMware's most vocal competitors, is about to announce a management shake-up that is somewhat of a coup.The company has hired a new CEO, Scott Hammond, who was...

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Bitcoin Is Actually Illegal In California, But That Could Change Soon

Thanks to one of those bizarre laws that's outlasted its usefulness, Bitcoin has technically been illegal in the state of California since the 1870s. Now, California Gov. Jerry Brown could fix that by...

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Intel Has Computers That Know When You're Having A Bad Day

The latest tech industry leader to join the 3D trend, Intel's new project takes the third dimension in a different direction. The company calls its new technology RealSense and says, among other...

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Here's The Heartbreaking Reality For Thousands Of Kids Who Have Entered The...

A humanitarian crisis is building as thousands of children pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, often without their parents. Thousands of unaccompanied children have fled the violence sweeping Central...

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How A GOP Senator Everyone Thought Would Lose Pulled Off One Of The Biggest...

The mood in the war room of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Mississippi) re-election campaign was "pretty dark" on the night of June 3.Cochran, who has represented Mississippi in the Senate since 1978, was...

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