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Yahoo Agrees To Buy Tumblr

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:21 -0400

Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.

We welcome our new overlords?

Reports: Yahoo eyeing Tumblr for as much as $1 billion

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:35:07 -0400

Reports: Yahoo eyeing Tumblr for as much as $1 billion:

Citing unnamed sources familiar with the talks, Adweek reported the price tag may be as high as $1 billion. AllThingsD, also citing anonymous sources close to the situation, said a deal could take the form of an acquisition or a strategic alliance.

Here’s fun time lapse video of the building of our new...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:54:12 -0400

Here’s fun time lapse video of the building of our new National News Desk, which sits in the middle of the USA TODAY newsroom.

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:21:14 -0400

"Revealing? Sure. Helpful? Maybe. But “classy” and “brave”? I don’t..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:22 -0400

“

Revealing? Sure. Helpful? Maybe.

But “classy” and “brave”? I don’t think so.

”

- Reporter with cancer: Angelina Jolie isn’t the brave one

A USA TODAY reporter weighs in on Angelina Jolie’s announcement today that she had a preventative double mastectomy. Olivia Barker writes: “And who are the brave ones in the country’s breast cancer conversation? They’re so quiet as to be all but ignored.”

What do you think?

My Medical Choice

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:18:29 -0400

My Medical Choice :

This is the full op-ed from Angelina Jolie on her double mastectomy.

pitchfork: Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories is...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:21:36 -0400

pitchfork:

Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories is streaming on iTunes.

On it.

How to survive cicada invasion? Eat them

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:17 -0400

How to survive cicada invasion? Eat them:

… cicadas are high in protein, low in fat, and are best when they first emerge from the ground in the morning, still soft after shedding their skin.

That RoboCop statue for Detroit? It’s still really...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:31:04 -0400

That RoboCop statue for Detroit? It’s still really happening, and is about to be cast in bronze.

More: http://on.freep.com/YRmmX9

Two sisters, separated as infants, reunite at track meet

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:30:35 -0400

Two sisters, separated as infants, reunite at track meet:

The two sisters are a lot alike: Same shoe size, same double jointed thumbs. They even sound alike.

“People can’t even tell us apart on the phone,” Jeter said. “We’re always just playing around with people on the phone.”

howgovtworks: govtoversight: The U.S. Navy has lots of fancy...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:21:07 -0400

howgovtworks:

govtoversight:

The U.S. Navy has lots of fancy gadgets, including rail guns and laser cannons, but when they want to make sure two ships stay the same distance apart while refueling, they shoot a rope out of an M14 rifle.

OK then.

There you have it, folks.

(P.S. Give a follow, won’tcha, to howgovtworks, a new Tumblr from USA TODAY political editor Paul Singer.)

wnycradiolab: natgeofound: A wave of rock shaped by wind and...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:18:23 -0400

wnycradiolab:

natgeofound:

A wave of rock shaped by wind and rain towers above a plain in Western Australia, September 1963. Photograph by Robert B. Goodman, National Geographic

Damn.

Field trip!

Whole Foods mixes up vegan, chicken salads

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:14:54 -0400

Whole Foods mixes up vegan, chicken salads:

Whoopsie.

Maybe we should stop calling it “chick’n.”

The spire was placed atop One World Trade Center this morning,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:46:37 -0400

The spire was placed atop One World Trade Center this morning, to reach its full height of a symbolic 1,776 feet.

Story and more photos: http://usat.ly/17RoYon

(Photo by Spencer Platt, Getty Images)

Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:10:58 -0400

Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal:

A man’s gotta eat, Ryan Gosling.

Fond of your first name? You're in good company

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:57:13 -0400

Fond of your first name? You're in good company:

87% of American adults say they at least like their first name — and a third love theirs.

Do you like yours? What would you change it to, if not?

Hackers stole $45 million in ATM card breach

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:44:17 -0400

Hackers stole $45 million in ATM card breach:

A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch called it “a massive 21st-century bank heist” and compared it to the Lufthansa heist in the late 1970s immortalized in the film “Goodfellas.” Lynch said the fraudsters had moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world.

"Walt had essentially left the recipe for making a Disney animated movie. You’d have to be..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:31:02 -0400

““Walt had essentially left the recipe for making a Disney animated movie. You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see that he was leaving bread crumbs the size of Volkswagens. To this day, I feel like I was a student of Walt Disney.””

- Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose career in animation was kick-started when he found a vault of Disney’s copious notes.

More: Katzenberg follows the Mickey Mouse master’s formula

usatodaysports: LeBron James and the technicolor dream...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:53:54 -0400

usatodaysports:

LeBron James and the technicolor dream shoes.

First photo via Nike Basketball, second photo via USA TODAY Sports.

We’ll take ‘em.

"…readers not only want to know what we know, they also want to know how we’ve come to know it, and..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:16:24 -0400

““…readers not only want to know what we know, they also want to know how we’ve come to know it, and the practical limits of our knowledge.””

- Roy Peter Clark, in an essay about transparency in narrative journalism, on Poynter today. (via poynterinstitute)

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