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As of today, Google has begun rolling out a new feature for Street View, the component of Google Earth and Google Maps that lets you view places as if you were actually there, that allows you to travel back in time and view the place in the past.
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Simferopol -
Clocks in Crimea and Moscow struck midnight at the same time after the Russian-speaking peninsula jumped Saturday into the timezone of its new masters.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
Magazine publisher Time Inc. is cutting staff and consolidating operations ahead of a spinoff as an independent company, according to an internal memo.
In the Media
by AFP
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The cover of this month’s issue of TIME depicts a young female deer below the headline “America’s Pest Problem.” The wildlife activist community is in an uproar over the article many see as factually inaccurate and something more fit for an op-ed
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Want to fight AIDS without shelling out a single penny? Seems too good to be true? So what's the catch? This interesting concept lies within fighting AIDS by installing World Community Grids' application on your smartphone.
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The World’s newest atomic clock began operating this week. It is so accurate that it loses only one second every 50 billion years. That's something to set your watch by.
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TIME published exclusive photos of a 17-year-old Barack Obama celebrating his high school prom in Hawaii. Obama wrote in schoolmate Kelli Allman's yearbook: "You are extremely sweet and foxy."
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In only 30 years, great glaciers have retreated and a lake that was once the world’s fourth largest has all but dried up. For the first time ever, the human impact on the face of earth as seen from space is on full view, and it is not a pretty picture.
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Newsweek, the 80-year-old US current affairs magazine, has revealed the image that will grace the cover of its last-ever print edition.
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New York -
Sandra Fluke, President Barack Obama, Malala Yousafzai and Curiosity rover have all been listed on TIME magazine's "Person of the Year" nominations for 2012. Voting will close on Dec. 12 and the winner will be announced Dec. 14.
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How much would you pay for a watch? Maybe up to $500 for a nice shiny and expensive one. However, this may not be the case with Apple.
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Toronto -
Canadians are technology enthusiasts, but as they continue their love affair with all things smartphones, tablets and e-readers, the amount of time using these devices is less frequent than compared to a year ago, a new study says.
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TIME Magazine and CNN suspended TV host and columnist Fareed Zakaria Friday after he publicly apologized to Jill Lepore for plagiarizing sections of an essay she wrote for the April 23 issue of The New Yorker.
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Paris -
Are you excited for the weekend? After a busy work week, who isn't? Good news: it will be longer, but only by one second. International timekeepers are adding the “leap second” this weekend because the Earth is slowing down.
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New research by scientists in Spain suggests that rather than the universe expanding, as is generally believed, time is gradually slowing down and will eventually stop altogether.
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Time went risque with its cover this week, displaying a photo of a mother allowing her three-year-old boy to suckle from her breast. The cover photo refers to the main article on extreme parenting titled "The Man Who Remade Motherhood."
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A decision about whether to abolish the leap second – an extra second added to world time – for January 2018 has been deferred by the world’s nations.
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New York -
Time has chosen its 2011 Person of the Year: The Protester. With numerous uprisings occurring in the Middle East, the Occupy Wall Street engulfing North America and Tibetans defending their way of life, the protester is now an iconic symbol.
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Fukushima schools limit outdoor recess time and city implements a one-hour time limit on playground use due to radiation threat to children. Soil removed from school grounds has no place to go.
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Late-night skit show 'Saturday Night Live' portrayed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a man seeking contrast with Time magazine's Person of the Year, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social media giant Facebook, is Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year. He beat out the runners-up Julian Assange and the Tea Party.
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A man in Ireland has spotted something which he suggests might be a time traveller in the footage included with the DVD release of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, The Circus.
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Washington -
A team of United States and Japanese astrophysicists have concluded that there is a 50 percent chance that the Earth, our galaxy, the universe and time itself will end in 3.7 billion years.
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Many online publishers are toying with the idea of paywalls, where readers pay to consume content or are given a few pages free before being asked to fork over cash to continue reading. Here's why Time's approach is better than the rest.
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Columbus -
An Ohio Coroner's Office once again mixed up two bodies. Grieving parents, who had picked out a white tuxedo to bury their son were visited by the Coroner Sunday and given the devastating news "their baby boy had mistakenly been cremated."
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Douglas Booth, who recently starred as Boy George in a BBC film about the Culture Club singer’s early life and career, and Doctor Who star Matt Smith are to star together in a new film about the writer Christopher Isherwood.
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Tomorrow is the start date for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in most of Europe, the Russian Federation and Turkey. Not having the same start and end dates everywhere makes March a rather messy month for timekeeping, international calls and appointments.
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Federal Reserve Chairman receives the nod from Time magazine for 2009 Person of the Year. Time editor refers to the Federal Reserve as "the most power, least understood government force shaping our lives."
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After wooing movie-goers in cinematic love stories like The Notebook, actress Rachel McAdams is back to break more hearts in The Time Traveler’s Wife. The Canadian-born beauty discusses her role in creating another timeless & classic big screen romance.
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The Showtime super middleweight tournament that was announced last week by the American television network Showtime and German promotional company Sauerland Event will start on October 17 and continue in 2010 with semi-finals and finals in spring 2011.
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An old Latin phrase that will give you something to think about when in a hurry...
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Clock of the Central Station (ca.1890) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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