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...second 24 hours. And other than a few urges to hit the computer to add a movie to my Netflix queue and find out if Switzerland uses the euro, I didn't miss it. Sure, it's a little boring to drive without texting, but I got to focus on driving really fast. And the day felt longer, with that slow, easy laziness you get only on vacation or Vicodin. (See 25 websites you can't live without...
...glorious difficulty is the public service performed by "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," a spectacular new show that can be seen at the Art Institute of Chicago until June 20 and then moves to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Why focus on just four years? Because they were a moment when Matisse fundamentally reinvented painting. His works of that period - there are almost 120 in the show, including canvases, prints, drawings and sculptures - truly were radical inventions, new answers to the fundamental question of how to construct a picture. They were also, no surprise, considered ugly...
...What They're Missing in the Bay of Bengal: A tiny tropical island has vanished--and we're not talking about the final season of Lost. Long the focus of a dispute between India and Bangladesh, New Moore Island, a 1.4-sq.-mi. speck that once sat several feet above sea level, has been claimed by climate change instead. Regional sea levels have risen dramatically over the past decade...
...television-set-top-box businesses. Brown will run the rest, which the company calls Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Networks, a name that could only have been fashioned by engineers. "I've long advocated that these were two distinctly separate companies," Brown says. "The split will mean renewed focus, improved innovation, better customer satisfaction and increased employee engagement...
...About 40% of wireless customers now use smart phones, according to Web research firm Crowd Science, and that portion is growing rapidly. To complement Android, Motorola developed Motoblur, one of the first user interfaces to unite social-networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. "We fundamentally changed our focus from market share to profitability with this new emphasis on smart phones," Jha says. "But that's what our research showed consumers want...