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Super Bowl could kill you

Packers' Rodgers holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after his team defeated the Steelers in the NFL's Super Bowl XLV football game in Arlington.
A research study conducted by the University of Southern California has revealed that the emotional stress one suffers when their team loses could lead to cardiac death.
Valentine's Night Comet Encounter

NASA Spacecraft Spots Its 'Valentine' Comet

This year Valentine's Day is so special as NASA's Stardust spacecraft is preparing for final date with comet Tempel 1 on its second exploration. The world will be beginning to look at images when the spacecraft is on its closest approach to fly by comet Tempel 1 at about 11:37 pm EST on Monday, with confirmation likely to be received on Earth at about 11:56 pm EST.
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Calpers gets backing for Apple proposal

Pension fund Calpers' proposal to require a majority vote to elect unopposed candidates to the board of Apple Inc has been endorsed by three prominent proxy advisory services.
U.S. President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington February 10, 2011.

Obama to visit Intel in Oregon next week

President Barack Obama will make a trip to Oregon at the end next week and will visit an Intel manufacturing plant as well as discuss the company's programs related to science, engineering and math programs, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a press conference on Friday.
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World stored at least 295 exabytes of data as of 2007

Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.
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Orexigen cuts 40 pct staff to save cash

Orexigen Therapeutics Inc said it let go of about 40 percent of its workforce to save cash and focus resources on its experimental weight-loss drug. The drugmaker said it expects to take a charge of about $2.6 million on the job cuts, which comes on the heels of the U.S. health regulator denying approval for the drug, Contrave.

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