Business

9-Year-Old Girl Chastises McDonald's CEO

9:48am May 24, 2013

At the McDonald's annual shareholders meeting in Chicago Thursday, Hannah Robertson told CEO Don Thompson, "It would be nice if you stopped trying to trick kids into wanting to eat your food all the time." Hannah and her mother were part of a contingent from a watchdog group.

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Nay Aung is the founder of Oway, a tech startup in Yangon, Myanmar. He used Taste Cafe as his unofficial office when he started his company — in part because it was one of the few places in Myanmar with a stable Internet connection.

World News

Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

9:29am May 24, 2013

by Robert Smith

A Stanford MBA who used to work for Google returned to Myanmar to be an Internet entrepreneur. But it's tough to start an Internet company in a country where the power goes out every day.

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An employee handles marijuana at Perennial Holistic Wellness Center, a medical marijuana dispensary, in Los Angeles.

Go East, Young Marijuana Dealer

6:40pm May 22, 2013

by Marianne McCune

A San Francisco dealer quadrupled his income by moving to New York after California legalized medical marijuana.

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Google and NASA are betting that quantum forces are at work inside D-Wave's 512-bit chip.

Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else

11:33am May 22, 2013

by Geoff Brumfiel

NASA and Google have come together to buy a new kind of computer that the manufacturer says runs on the strange laws of quantum mechanics. But some physicists counter that the machine, known as the D-Wave Two, has never demonstrated a phenomenon known as "quantum entanglement."

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World News

Why Apple (And Lots Of Other Companies) Wound Up In Ireland

9:35am May 22, 2013

by Zoe Chace

It goes back to a single page in a report written decades ago by U.S. consultants, and funded by the U.S. State Department.

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Court Rules Vacation Rental Site Illegal In New York

9:29am May 22, 2013

by Ilya Marritz

In New York, a judge has dealt a setback to Airbnb, the popular website for short term apartment rentals. The judge ruled an Airbnb user violated a New York City law when he rented a room to a visitor from out of town. The judge's decision casts doubt on New Yorkers' ability to make use of the site legally.

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Parking Industry Tries To Make Your Life Easier

9:29am May 22, 2013

by Kenny Malone

The future of parking has been showcased in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, this week at the International Parking Institute's annual conference. The conversation has been about helping drivers get in and out of spaces as conveniently as possible.

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Worker Charles Lee sorts through clothes at Mac Recycling near Baltimore. Textile recycling is a huge international business, and a small facility like Mac ships about 80 tons of clothes each week to buyers around the world.

The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes

9:04pm May 21, 2013

by Jackie Northam

The deadly collapse of a textile factory in Bangladesh has heightened awareness about cheap clothes. Many Americans have become used to inexpensive clothing, but the garments are also discarded at a remarkable rate: Billions of pounds of clothing are recycled each year; nearly half is exported.

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David Cross and Portia de Rossi in a scene from Arrested Development, which returns on Netflix on May 26.

Arts

'Arrested Development' Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media

5:43pm May 21, 2013

by Neda Ulaby

Brands that found their original audiences in traditional, old-media platforms are finding ways to keep going in the world of new media.

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National

Apple, Tech Giants And An Industrial-Age Tax Code

2:07pm May 21, 2013

Apple CEO Timothy Cook made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, testifying after congressional investigators revealed that Apple avoided billions in taxes. The New York Times' Charles Duhigg and guest host Jennifer Ludden talk about the tax code and the digital economy.

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