Apple's board is paying a rich sum to lock new CEO Tim Cook up for the next decade. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Steve Jobs took home $1 a year for serving as Apple's CEO. The company's new leader, Tim Cook, is getting a richer deal. Apple's board has given Cook a restricted stock grant of 1 million…

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Goebbels is equally straightforward. "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes…

Steve Jobs on stage during Apple's iPhone 4 antenna press conference. I knew for certain that Apple had a public-relations problem on its hands with iOS location tracking when I got the e-mail from my mom: What about this thing with iPhone & iPad that Apple included that tracking system? My mother…

After being pushed and pulled this year by tumult in the Middle East and the quake in Japan, the world's financial markets are increasingly being driven by economic fundamentals, including inflation and interest rates. The winners in the shift have been precious metals and emerging-market currencies…

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Jasné je, že celková narkóza ovplyvňuje miechu, mozgový kmeň a kôruveľkého mozgu a vyvoláva tým stav straty vedomia, utlmenie pocitu bolesti auvoľnenie svalstva. Väčšina pacientov si nakoniec nič nepamätá. Vedamedzičasom dospela ďaleko v dolaďovaní narkózy a v potlačeníneželaných vedľajších účinkov,…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Editor's note: These remarks are from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos commencement speech to Princeton's Class of 2010 , delivered on May 30, 2010. As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other…

T he first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent…

According to estimates, half of all primary schools are already using wireless networks 12:01AM BST 28 Apr 2007 Have your say: Are you concerned about living near power lines? Children should not place computers on their laps while they are using wireless internet connections because of potential…

When I was about four years old, my parents asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. My response? A cashier. Why? They were the ones who got handed all the money. Today, when people cite crime and education as the two major problems facing America’s cities, the knee-jerk response is to “protect…

The science writer Matt Ridley made his reputation with books like "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" and "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters." His latest book, "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves" is much broader, as its title suggests. Its subject…

The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own—its funding. Some governments and corporations angered by the site's publications have already…

The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting…

In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the “conjugal condition” of the people of France. He divided the adult population into three distinct categories: the “married,” consisting of husbands and wives; the “celibate,” defined as the bachelors and…

Congratulations! You’ve hired a fantastic open source developer. You know she’s fantastic because you were able to check out her commits on public projects, you’ve read the mailing list archives to learn how she communicates, and you know before she starts that she’s a passionate self-motivated…

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from CIO.com . Visit CIO’s Macs in the Enterprise page . Steve Jobs had a serious and embarrassing Wi-Fi problem to deal with. It was plain to the thousands in attendance and the tons more people watching online: On Monday at the Worldwide Developers…

The event is scheduled to kick off at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters at 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 1:00 PM Eastern Time, or just about one hour from now. Apple will not be providing live video or audio coverage of the event, and thus observers will have to rely primarily on text and photo updates…

In some circles, the iPad was known as “the Jesus tablet.” Credit Illustration by Paul Rogers On the morning of January 27th—an aeon ago, in tech time—Steve Jobs was to appear at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in downtown San Francisco, to unveil Apple’s new device, the iPad. Although…

Nothing can stand in for a good night's sleep. Today we're not going to show you how to scrape by with less sleep; instead, we're going to help you reboot your sleeping habits so you get the sleep you need (and deserve). Photo by groenmen . Who wouldn't want more sleep? We live in a 24/7 world where…

The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and — ahem — journalism, three parties that stand to gain much from widespread confusion surrounding what is, after…