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Can anything rouse the spirit more than a 65-foot-tall church built of Lego-esque bricks? [Read more]

New iPhone app lets you order wine for delivery right to your door. That is, if you live in San Francisco. [Read more]

Even geeks who got picked last in gynm class are caught up in the story of Jeremy Lin, the unlikely NBA star who seems to come from nowhere. Sure, performing well in the country?s media capital on what had been a losing team helps. And of course, an easily pun-able surname helps spread the word. But none of these explain why I ? and many of my fellow geeks ? love him so damn much. Here's why ?Lin is a validation of our worldview: Ignore expectation, follow the data.

SmartPlanet's Sumi Das looks at new shoes from Aetrex that could help caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia find them if they wander off. [Read more]

Conversion testing is the holy grail of ROI on the Internet. Every day, more of our customers start picking up their phones, asking what new test we are planning for their website. Or may that be a result of sales people “incidentally” dropping Conversion Optimization and in doing so, providing the...

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The iPad will lead in 2012, but its share will drop to 62 percent from almost 90 percent in 2010, says research firm TrendForce. [Read more]

The NBA's latest star has been in the public eye for just days, and already there are seven books about him. It just goes to show what's possible in the new world of book publishing. [Read more]

This summer, the Gates Foundation will present hygienic innovations developed through its Reinventing the Toilet Challenge. [Read more]

Due to the agile and complex nature of paid search, managing a paid search program can often degenerate into a constant barrage of fire drills and ad hoc report requests. I have been there and it is not fun. I have also found that there is a way to dig out of this chaos and [...]

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One of the organization's employees also says Foxconn banned 16- and 17-year-old workers from overtime while inspections are ongoing. [Read more]

Startup Enlighted says its distributed sensor-based lighting controls cut energy from lighting by about 60 percent. [Read more]

Don't trust success. Statistically, it's a way station on the road to failure. Study the road instead. [Read more]

The Daily stands by its report that Microsoft has created an iPad version of Office, though the folks in Redmond label the story inaccurate. [Read more]

Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they are now adding video support for schema.org. They are doing this in combination with Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search as a “joint effort.” Google says using the schema.org video markup is the “recommended way to...

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Today is the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who was able to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves. To celebrate his contributions to the world, Google has a special animated wave logo on their homepage. He built an antenna that was able to detect and measure...

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Google+ Pages have sparked a lot of discussion in B2B marketing circles. The ability to add multiple management functionality, site verification, and easy to integrate Google+ badges have leadership teams asking whether this truly is the next social media platform B2B marketers must focus upon....

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The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging their PlayStation Network.

Wired diagrams the mad Mad world of bed-hopping on AMC's Madison Avenue.

Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, but he's also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a Canadian national champion wrestler. That may seem like an odd combination, but this dual background makes him the perfect fit for his chosen profession. Rose is the CTO and founder of D-Wave. He calls it the world?s only quantum computer company, but the world's quantum computer experts don't agree with him. The result is a nearly 10-year fight to prove each other wrong, and at least in some ways, Geordie Rose is winning. ?I?m not okay with losing at anything," he says, "at all.?

Thanks to the drug wars in Mexico, demand has spiked for professional bodyguards and guns-for-hire, many of them based in the United States.