Past Articles by Elise Hu
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Yahoo's Other Billion-Dollar Bets: Where Are They Now? Tumblr joins GeoCities, Broadcast.com and Overture in the small fraternity of Yahoo's $1 billion-plus acquisitions. What can the company can learn from its previous purchases? |
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Yahoo's Other Billion-Dollar Bets: Where Are They Now? Tumblr joins GeoCities, Broadcast.com and Overture in the small fraternity of Yahoo's $1 billion-plus acquisitions. What can the company can learn from its previous purchases? |
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A Mile-High Hack: An App That Could Remotely Hijack Planes By virtually hacking into flight management systems, a German IT consultant showed he can take remote control of planes in the air. The proof-of-concept software raises questions about efforts to secure global flight systems. |
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100 Hours On The Supreme Court's Sidewalk: Camping Out For A Seat To History Sub-freezing temperatures and a snow forecast aren't stopping die-hards from camping outside the Supreme Court for a seat to history. The court will begin hearing oral arguments Tuesday in its review of same-sex marriage laws. |
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100 Hours On The Supreme Court's Sidewalk: Camping Out For A Seat To History Sub-freezing temperatures and a snow forecast aren't stopping die-hards from camping outside the Supreme Court for a seat to history. The court will begin hearing oral arguments Tuesday in its review of same-sex marriage laws. |
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Scientists: 'No Options' To Stop Massive Asteroids On Collision Course Scientists told a Senate panel that getting caught off-guard by a space rock hurtling toward Earth would lead to devastating consequences. |
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Scientists: 'No Options' To Stop Massive Asteroids On Collision Course Scientists told a Senate panel that getting caught off-guard by a space rock hurtling toward Earth would lead to devastating consequences. |
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Scientists: 'No Options' To Stop Massive Asteroids On Collision Course Scientists told a Senate panel that getting caught off-guard by a space rock hurtling toward Earth would lead to devastating consequences. |
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Self-Tracking Apps To Help You 'Quantify' Yourself Technology is making it easier than ever to track everything from your sleep cycles to the food you eat — and even your amino acid levels. |
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Self-Tracking Apps To Help You 'Quantify' Yourself Technology is making it easier than ever to track everything from your sleep cycles to the food you eat — and even your amino acid levels. |
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Self-Tracking Apps To Help You 'Quantify' Yourself Technology is making it easier than ever to track everything from your sleep cycles to the food you eat — and even your amino acid levels. |
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Spring Break For Geeks: SXSW Interactive Starts Friday As the tech industry prepares to descend on Austin, the breakout themes and apps of this year's festival remain unclear. |
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Spring Break For Geeks: SXSW Interactive Starts Friday As the tech industry prepares to descend on Austin, the breakout themes and apps of this year's festival remain unclear. |
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Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work? The decision by Yahoo to stop its remote work policy seems to fly in the face of recent trends that allow more working-from-home, not less. |
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Working From Home: The End Of Productivity Or The Future Of Work? The decision by Yahoo to stop its remote work policy seems to fly in the face of recent trends that allow more working-from-home, not less. |
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Cash-Strapped Postal Service To Launch A New Clothing Line In its search for new revenue streams, the Postal Service is getting creative. Its entered into a licensing agreement for a new apparel and accessories line called Rain Heat & Snow. |
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Cash-Strapped Postal Service To Launch A New Clothing Line In its search for new revenue streams, the Postal Service is getting creative. Its entered into a licensing agreement for a new apparel and accessories line called Rain Heat & Snow. |
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Cash-Strapped Postal Service To Launch A New Clothing Line In its search for new revenue streams, the Postal Service is getting creative. Its entered into a licensing agreement for a new apparel and accessories line called Rain Heat & Snow. |
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The Blizzard 'Nemo' Highlights The Hype Cycle Of Storms The hype surrounding major storms follows a predictable pattern — plenty of buildup and panic before it peaks, plateaus and peters out. Could this kind of hype cycle have consequences for storm victims? |
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The Blizzard 'Nemo' Highlights The Hype Cycle Of Storms The hype surrounding major storms follows a predictable pattern — plenty of buildup and panic before it peaks, plateaus and peters out. Could this kind of hype cycle have consequences for storm victims? |
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11 Takeaways From Zuckerberg's First Interview Since Facebook's IPO In his first interview since Facebook's troubled IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized the company's mobile-centered future, his commitment to mission over fun and explained why he doesn't code much anymore. |
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Publisher Pulls Controversial Thomas Jefferson Book, Citing Loss Of Confidence Christian book company Thomas Nelson Publishers is ending its publishing and distribution of evangelical David Barton's controversial book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson. The publisher says it has lost confidence in the book's details. |
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Chick-Fil-A Gay Flap A 'Wakeup Call' For Companies When Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy went public to defend his company's stance against gay marriage, he set off a controversy that has everyone from politicians to puppets weighing in. But the fast-food chain is hardly the first business to get caught in the crossfire of culture wars. |
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'Techie Computer Programmer Guy' And The Website Reddit Deliver The News Shortly after the Colorado shootings, a Denver 18-year-old named Morgan Jones started a thread on the social media site Reddit. It built through the night into a minute-by-minute chronicle of tragedy. |
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'Seventeen' Magazine Takes No-Photoshop Pledge After 8th-Grader's Campaign Julia Bluhm, 14, rounded up 80,000 signatures with an online petition, and that convinced the magazine to promise not to digitally alter editorial photos of teen models. The editor in chief writes that Seventeen "never has, never will." |
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Recent Rulings Show How Hard It Is to Predict High-Profile Court Decisions Thursday's ruling on the controversial health care law showed that perhaps it's best not to pay too much attention to how smoothly oral arguments go, or to the legal prognosticators who try to predict the outcomes. |
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Facebook Changed Your Primary Email Address, But Says It Warned You Facebook has removed its users' primary email addresses and replaced them with @facebook handles. The company says it warned you, and that you can easily change your email information back. |
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It's #FollowFriday: Some Political Tweeters You May Not Already Follow For this week's roundup of best political folks to follow on Twitter, we chose some lesser-known and local names you might want to see in your feed. |
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TED's 'Explicitly Partisan' Talk, Briefly Barred From Its Site, Now Everywhere   A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too "explicitly partisan." |
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TED's 'Explicitely Partisan' Talk, Briefly Barred From Its Site, Now Everywhere A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too "explicitly partisan." |
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Facebook Stock Priced At $38 A Share Ahead Of Friday IPO Facebook has priced its much-hyped stock at $38 a share in advance of its initial public offering Friday. It is expected to be one of the largest IPOs in history and the company is expected to raise as much $18 billion. |
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Feds: Fire Season Off to Slow Start Even As Wildfires Rage in Southwest As five large fires burn thousands of acres and threaten some communities in the Southwest, federal response teams say they have plenty of resources available and that this wildfire season is actually getting off to a slow start. |
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Video Helps Acquit Student In First Occupy Wall Street Trial The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light. |
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Four Decades After Dying In Cambodia, Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor More than 40 years after his actions during the Vietnam war saved the lives of his fellow soldiers, Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony. |
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Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color? Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American heritage seem uneasy to swallow. But why? What does it take to be considered an ethnic minority, and what does the controversy say about the way we judge ethnic backgrounds? |
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The Historic Texas Drought, Visualized In 2011, Texas endured the worst single-year drought in its history. Using a new interactive app by NPR's StateImpact, learn about the drought's progression and its impact on the state, explore the pros and cons of the policy decisions that need to be made and share your stories. |
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Days Before Primary, N.H. Restaurant Bans Presidential Candidates "No politicians, no exceptions" reads a sign in front of Colby's Breakfast & Lunch in Portsmouth, N.H. The move, an employee says, is in response to complaints from customers. |
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Rick Perry's Top Five Texas Debate Moments The new Republican frontrunner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, will take part in his first presidential debate Wednesday night. In advance of his debut, we looked back at key moments from the previous debate performances of the longest-serving governor in Texas history. |
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Perry Jumps Into Presidential Race Touting Texas Job Growth Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry officially declared he was seeking the White House, promising to "get America working again." While his home state has added thousands of new jobs during his tenure, the Lone Star state's economic picture is mixed. |
