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		Apple Dethrones Microsoft As World's Biggest Tech Company
	SEATTLE — Apple has surpassed Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world by market capitalization. Apple's move comes as the company's iPhone, and...

 

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		iPad MANIA Hits Europe, Asia

 

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles

Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.

The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hitbookshops for at least a century.

That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.

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Postmortem: Seeking the Truth About an Executed Man

Postmortem: Seeking the Truth About an Executed Man

Claude "Butch" Jones would seem an unlikely client for the Innocence Project, a legal foundation that has freed 254 men and women through DNA evidence since 1992. Jones was not, in the broadest sense, an innocent man. He was an alcoholic and an armed robber who once, while serving time in Kansas for murder, doused another inmate with lighter fluid and, in the words of his own defense attorney, "torched him."

When Jones was executed by the state of Texas, however, it wasn't just for being a criminal. It was for a specific crime: the 1989 murder of a liquor-store owner named Allen Hilzendager in a small town with a violent name — Point Blank, Texas. Jones and Danny Dixon, another paroled murderer, had driven to the liquor store in a pickup truck. One of the two men walked inside and shot Hilzendager three times, leaving him dead in a pool of blood and spilled alcohol.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990809,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz0omaIsp9y

Google deletes private data in Ireland; a complaint filed in U.S.

Google said Monday afternoon that upon the request of Ireland's Data Protection Authority, it has deleted private data it collected as part of its Street View application.

In a blog post, the company said that it deleted that information over the weekend in the presence of an independent third party. Google said it is also reaching out to other nations where it also collected data.

The controversy over Google's data collection stems from its announcement Friday that it inadvertently collected private data off of unprotected, or unencrypted, Wi-Fi networks at homes while compiling photos for location-based services.

German officials blasted Google, saying the practice, even if in error, was illegal. California-based Consumer Watchdog filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission seeking an investigation on how the practice affected consumers.

"We are reaching out to Data Protection Authorities in the other relevant countries about how to dispose of the remaining data as quickly as possible," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research at Google.

I asked Google whether any nations have requested the company retain data, if only temporarily, to determine what kind of information the search giant collects.

A spokesperson said it is in ongoing discussion with regulators and couldn't comment on what has been discussed. It's unclear how widespread the data collection was. Street View is used in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Taiwan and in several European countries.

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		WATCH: Cover Up Your Sex Scandal With A New Batch Of Euphemisms
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