After taking their exams Tuesday, Hadiya Pendleton and a group of others decided to hang out at a park on Tuesday just blocks...
Facebook Graph Search Still Doesn’t Speak Human
Label: TechnologyDespite hiring a couple of linguists to get its new search engine to move “beyond ‘Robospeak” and actually understand how people talk, Facebook hasn’t actually taught Graph Search how to do that very well just yet. And that’s a problem, no matter which way the social network spins it. Unlike Google‘s pattern-matching search engine, Facebook’s new recommendation-based social search platform tries to...
Lindsay Lohan’s driving case returns to LA court
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge who has sentenced Lindsay Lohan to jail before will conduct her first hearing Wednesday on new misdemeanor charges of lying to authorities and reckless driving against the trouble-prone actress.Lohan has been ordered to appear before Judge Stephanie Sautner for the scheduling hearing, which is the first time the actress has been required to appear in court in nearly a year.Prosecutors...
Well: Helmets for Ski and Snowboard Safety
Label: HealthRecently, researchers from the department of sport science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria stood on the slopes at a local ski resort and trained a radar gun on a group of about 500 skiers and snowboarders, each of whom had completed a lengthy personality questionnaire about whether he or she tended to be cautious or a risk taker.The researchers had asked their volunteers to wear their normal...
Chicago Booth social enterprise program gets $5M gift
Label: Business Retired CDW Chairman and Chief Executive John Edwardson has donated $5 million to the social enterprise initiative at the University...
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Butler's 19 points lead Bulls over Bobcats
Label: World To Jimmy Butler, it's simple.Whether he's averaging 45.2 minutes in the five games he started for Luol Deng or playing 31 minutes,...
Yahoo sees revenue climb this year, but long road ahead
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc forecast a modest uptick in revenue for the current year as it revamps its family of websites but Chief Executive Marissa Mayer warned it would be a long journey to revive the Internet company‘s fortunes.In Yahoo‘s first financial outlook since Mayer became CEO in July, the company outlined a plan to trigger a “chain reaction of growth” by overhauling a dozen of its online services...
How Fox Searchlight made the biggest deal at Sundance $9.75 million on an egg sandwich
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – The biggest sale at Sundance this year – “The Way, Way Back” – began with a promise and ended with a fried egg sandwich.Producer Kevin J. Walsh, a former assistant to Scott Rudin, told the agents selling his movie that he’d make everyone food if they closed a big deal. But before he could cook, a bidding war broke out that would pit the favored Fox Searchlight against a half-dozen...
Rescuer Appears for New York Downtown Hospital
Label: HealthManhattan’s only remaining hospital south of 14th Street, New York Downtown, has found a white knight willing to take over its debt and return it to good health, hospital officials said Monday. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of New York City’s largest academic medical centers, has proposed to take over New York Downtown in a “certificate of need” filed with the State Health Department....
787 worst-case scenario: $5B writeoff by Boeing
Label: Business As government regulators investigate Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and company engineers seek solutions, investors and analysts are...
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