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'Supermoon' May Outshine Meteor Shower This Weekend

By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com   The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's comet. The supermoon of 2012 is the biggest full moon of the yearand will occur on Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 May 6), though the moon may still appear full to skywatchers on the day before and after the actual event. At the same time, the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be hitting its peak, NASA scientists say. "Its light will wash out the fainter Eta Aquarid meteors," NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center told SPACE.com in an email. Still, Cooke said there's a chance that the brightest fireballs from the meteor display may still be visible. A supermoon occurs when the moon hits its full phase at the same time it makes closest approach to Earth for...

Facebook isn’t making us lonely. It’s making us anxious. Get over it.

    Virginia Heffernan is the national correspondent for Yahoo! News, covering culture and politics from a digital perspective. She wrote extensively on Internet culture during her eight years as a staff writer for The New York Times, and she has also worked at Harper’s, the New Yorker and Slate. Her new book, Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet, will be published in early 2013. --------------------------------------- As a masterpiece and a cultural catastrophe at once, Facebook is distinctly American. It represents a social regime that’s scintillating and hideous. The values intrinsic to it—velocity, wit, growth, exhibitionism and “connectivity”—can seem superficial, but they’re ours. This week, the Facebook brass are making housecalls to investors, using razzle, dazzle and astral projections to justify valuing the eight-year-old company at a big, round $100 billion. This comes in preparation for Facebook’s midmonth initial public offering—w...

Karla Vanessa Perez is Pregnant with Nine Babies. Unreal.

By Piper Weiss, Shine Staff | Team Mom Last November, Karla Vanessa Perez, had her hands full with her daughter and her newborn set of triplets. She didn't expect to be pregnant with nine more babies the following year. That's nine as in almost all of your fingers, about half of the Dugger family, and one more than the entire clan of Gosselin kids. All nine of them, currently, living inside one woman. The Mexican news station Televisa broke the news of the 32-year-old mother's record-breaking multiple pregnancy this week, and Gawker has already stamped her with the tabloid-ready nickname "nonomom." Video: teacher fired over IVF procedure In a video of a news broadcast, Karla appears remarkably calm considering what lies ahead. "Doctors tell me there are six girls and three boys," the 32-year-old said. "It's miraculous." But science should probably take more of the credit. Up to 40 percent of in vitro fertilization pregnancie...

Apple’s Penchant for Secrecy Extends to its New Cafeteria

By Pueng Vongs | Yahoo! Finance The latest big project for high-tech innovator Apple may very well be called the iCafeteria. The world's largest technology company is planning to build a 21,468-square-foot eatery exclusively for Apple employees. It will be closed to the public. The idea behind the building is to create a space where workers can talk shop without fear of pesky competitors eavesdropping. "We like to provide a level of security so that people and employees can feel very comfortable talking about their business, their research and whatever project they're engineering without fear of competition overhearing their conversations," said Dan Whisenhunt, director of real estate facilities, at a presentation to the Cupertino, Calif., City Council. "That is a real issue today in Cupertino because we've got other companies here in our same business. It's very important to us," added Whisenhunt. The two-story building will be cent...

KFC ordered to pay $8.3 million to Australian girl

Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika Samaan was seven when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock -- in October 2005. Several other family members also fell ill and they claimed Samaan's injuries, which include severe cognitive, motor and speech impairment and spastic quadriplegia, were caused by a chicken Twister wrap from a Sydney KFC outlet . The New South Wales Supreme Court ruled in the family's favour a week ago and on Friday ordered KFC to pay the girl Aus$8 million in damages plus legal costs. In a statement, the family's lawyer George Vlahakis said they were relieved the battle was over. " Monika 's severe brain damage and severe disability has already exhausted the...
By BRIAN X. CHEN | New York Times Verizon and AT&T reported their quarterly earnings in the past week, and they told nearly identical stories: Both are making a lot of money just from mobile data - the fees customers pay to access the Internet over their networks. Some numbers shared by AT&T make it clear why. Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T Mobility, said during Tuesday's earnings call that about 60 percent of smartphone customers were paying for tiered data plans, and of those, 70 percent were choosing the higher-priced plans. For its tiered data plans, AT&T charges $20 for 300 megabytes of data, $30 for three gigabytes or $50 for five. Verizon's data plans are similar: $30 for two GB, $50 for five GB or $80 for 10 GB. Mr. de la Vega's statement suggests that the majority of people on AT&T's tiered plans are paying at least $30 for three GB, or more. And it turns out that three GB is far more than most people use. A r...

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