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...year-olds and older, and now social networks are changing the way we use the Internet in our daily lives (if only businesses could find a way to make money off that traffic). Is it any surprise, then, that search engines are no longer the most popular sites in the U.S.? Those bragging rights now belong to social-networking sites like Facebook - sites that as of June 2006 surpassed search engines as the most popular category by market share of visits (Facebook is even more popular than porn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Facebook the Future of Search? | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

Krieger said he was inspired by an old photograph of the waterfront that showed perpendicular pathways connecting the popular tourist destination to the water...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Design Prof Wins China Contract | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...Let’s backtrack. There are some things you need to know before we can continue. The word “cyborg,” a popular abbreviation on the sci-fi circuit, is the shorter and catchier version of the term “cybernetic organism.” Essentially, we’re talking about a being that has both organic parts and robot parts. These parts are integrated and form a functioning system. Typically, this means using robotic elements to extend existing human capabilities. Seems pretty straightforward: RoboCop is a cyborg, for example...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta | Title: I Love Lamp | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...take part in the poll, which closes on February 22, regardless of whether their country uses the euro. However, there is the potential for voter fraud through multiple votes by those with more than one email address. And in a blatant attempt at trying to make this a popular poll, the Commission will award a set of gold coins worth "several thousand euros" to one random person from those who chose the most popular design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Pocket-Change Democracy | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Campaign Trail ... in Pakistan | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

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