CERN Confirms Existence of a Particle Consistent With Higgs Boson

CERN Confirms Existence of a Particle Consistent With Higgs Boson:

CERN's scientists have found a new boson within five standard deviations of accuracy. The new particle is the heaviest boson ever found and it's "consistent" with the Higgs boson.
At a press conference in Melbourne Wednesday morning, CERN's experts said the evidence for the particle's existence was observed in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
The ATLAS experiment, also on the lookout for the elusive particle that is said to give all universe size and shape, will be announcing its experiments later today.
By combining data sets from both experiments, the researchers are able to confirm the existence of the particle with even bigger certainty…
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Mormon Church Uses Facebook, Apps to Increase Political Outreach

Mormon Church Uses Facebook, Apps to Increase Political Outreach:

Members of Jesus Christ's Church of Latter Day Saints have begun leveraging their evangelizing networks through smartphone apps to help draw support for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. By employing specialized apps like LDS Tools to gather phone numbers and addresses of Mormon church members, political supporters can cross-check the contact info with voter registration data to contact other Romney backers.
However, Mormon church rules forbid the use of LDS resources for political purposes. Dave Isbell, a Nevada Mormon, tells CNN, the apps are being used despite official church policy.
"The church makes it really easy for you to get a hold of anyone in your ward," Isbell says. "I…
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Toddler Wren Bowell survives after falling on pencil which pierced her eye socket and lodged in her brain

Toddler Wren Bowell survives after falling on pencil which pierced her eye socket and lodged in her brain: Two-year-old Wren Bowell (pictured) from Somerset, tripped over a stair gate at home and fell forcing the the pencil she was carrying through her eye socket.

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Introducing Office Depot data erasing service starting at $49.99

Introducing Office Depot data erasing service starting at $49.99: Introducing Office Depot data erasing service starting at $49.99

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Hitman: Absolution Deluxe Professional Edition revealed

Hitman: Absolution Deluxe Professional Edition revealed: Will include a 10" Agent 47 vinyl statue, art book, making of DVD and weapon DLC.


Square Enix has taken the wraps off the Hitman: Absolution Deluxe Professional Edition.
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Google Maps Head Indoors in the UK

Google Maps Head Indoors in the UK:

If you’re traveling in the UK, now you can not only find directions to your destination using Google Maps -- you can also find directions to things you’re looking for once you’re inside a number of locations.
Available at some locations in the US since last year, Google is launching indoor maps for Android devices for locations in the UK beginning Tuesday. A part of the standard Google Maps app, indoor maps will appear when you zoom in on a specific portion of a map.
Once you’re zoomed in to a floor plan you can then search for what you’re looking for within that plan. For instance, you might zoom in on a train station to get an indoor map of the station and help finding th…
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