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  Hundreds of Harry Potter fans abandon pet owls after series ends
People will go to great lengths to imitate pop culture characters they adore, and Harry Potter fans are no different. Forget the cheesy Halloween costumes and silly accents: Some fans even adopted pet owls after seeing or reading about them in Harry … Continue reading → Solar Eclipse in Time-Lapse
This time-lapse video of an annular solar eclipse was shot Sunday by Cory Poole, a 33-year-old physics and math teacher from Redding, Calif., who has  an interest in science and astronomy. “Once I found out that the path of the annular eclipse went directly through my...
Going public: Key developments in Facebook's IPO
Key developments in Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering of stock: Watch: Control Your Computer With the Wave of a Hand
Leap Motion is a new accessory that can track subtle finger movements.
Yahoo clears a hurdle, sells Alibaba stake for $7.1 billion
 SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will sell as much as half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion, ending years of fractious talks over how to extract value from its most prized asset. Yahoo also increased its stock buyback authorization by $5 billion to $5.5 billion as a result of the deal but said it might instead opt to distribute some of the proceeds through a dividend. The sale, announced on Monday, gives Yahoo $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million of new Alibaba preferred stock. After taxes, Yahoo will clear $4.2 billion. ...
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