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What's so special about this puzzle? It's a crossword so excessive that no single page can contain it. When you reach the edge, simply turn the page over and keep writing. No, really, it'll work!
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Trend Micro Shares Advance After Report of Takeover
Trend Micro Inc. rose the most in more than a year in Tokyo trading after Taiwan’s DigiTimes reported the Japanese maker of antivirus software has been approached for a possible takeover.
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Shanda Games Says Sales May Fall for Second Straight Quarter
Shanda Games Ltd., China’s second- biggest operator of online games, said sales may fall for a second straight quarter as the company struggles to boost demand for some of its titles.
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Intel to Unveil Graphics Chip
The world's largest computer chipmaker plans to show off its first design that builds graphics into the processor, stepping up a rivalry with AMD and Nvidia
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Telecom N.Z. Shares Halted Pending ‘Material Announcement’
Telecom Corp. of New Zealand’s shares were placed in a trading halt in New Zealand “pending a material announcement by the company.”
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Hewlett-Packard Leads Two-Day Surge of Corporate Bond Issuance
Hewlett-Packard Co. and American Express Co. led companies marketing at least $16.6 billion of debt today, tapping credit markets with investment-grade borrowing costs near the lowest on record.
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Gamemaker's Secret Mission: Save <cite>Duke Nukem Forever</cite>
When it came to resurrecting the MIA videogame, Randy Pitchford faced a task that was part suicide run, part debt of honor. The Gearbox Software CEO serves up the inside story on the improbable rescue of one of gaming's most beloved (and most obnoxious) franchises.
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DHS Cyber Division Misses 1,085 Holes on Own Network
The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.
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Oracle’s Hurd Eligible for $10 Million Bonus for 2011
Oracle Corp., the world’s second- biggest software maker, said it will pay former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd $950,000 a year in salary as president, with a bonus of as much as $10 million.
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Citing Obama's State Secrets Privilege, Court Tosses Torture Case
Citing the Obama administration's evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court is dismissing a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured.
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Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles
After several months, the grassroots campaign at Ole Miss to install Return of the Jedi's Admiral Ackbar, that esteemed squid-like war hero who led the Rebel Alliance to victory at the Battle of Endor, as the university's official sports mascot has fizzled.
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Facebook Strengthens Zynga Ties
Zynga will use Facebook Credits exclusively on most of its Facebook games, widening the influence of the social network's online payment service, a PayPal alternative
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Hack Your Parking
Maybe you always remember where you parked. Maybe you never get parking tickets either. For the rest of us, some tools to alert us when our parking meter is about to expire or give us directions back to our car would be mighty handy.
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HP Sues to Block Hurd from Oracle Move
Hewlett-Packard sued former CEO Mark Hurd to block him from working as a president of Oracle, saying the appointment may cause HP to lose customers, trade secrets and its competitive advantage
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Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera
When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 am local Italian time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely controlled a 0.25-meter telescope in Mayhill, New Mexico through the Global Remote Astronomy Telescope Network. They got four separate exposures of 30 seconds each and stitched them together to make this animation.
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X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?)
After a set of sexy X-rays hit the web earlier this year, viewers were left to wonder if they were real. Now we have the answer.
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Native Toad Fights Back Against Yellow Crazy-Ant Invasion
After so many sad tales of invasive species overwhelming hapless natives, scientists have found a native toad in Indonesia that's fighting back.
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The Best Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of
Esther Vergeer is the best tennis player you've never heard of. Vergeer, who hails from Holland, hasn't lost a wheelchair tennis match since 2003 — that's nearly 400 victories in a row.
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