College Programmers Beat Tech Elite in Hacking Contest

It was 3 a.m. on the first day of final exams. While most slept, a small cohort of students, overcome with excitement, locked arms to sing the Auburn University alma mater. The Alabama school, which has recently produced NFL stars named "Cam" and "Cadillac," had just pulled off an earth-shaking upset in an unlikely "sport" — coding. Auburn University is often thought of as a college football powerhouse,...

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Sulia: The Hottest Social Network You've Never Heard Of

1. Sulia Sulia is "a subject-based social network that connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about." You can sign up to the service by connecting either your Twitter or Facebook accounts. Click here to view this gallery. [More from Mashable: This Is My Brain on YouTube] Social services that promise to aggregate online content neatly into easily digestible digital piles are...

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Icebergs Scoured Florida During Ice Age

SAN FRANCISCO — During the last ice age, icebergs carved trenches in the ocean floor as far south as Miami, according to research presented here yesterday (Dec. 6) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Based on the sea level at the time, some 20,000 years ago, the chunks of floating ice must have reached at least 320 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) tall to reach the seafloor,...

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Supreme Court To Take Up Same-Sex Marriage

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday (Dec. 7) that it will take up the issue of same-sex marriage this term, with rulings expected in June. The announcement comes after a period of uncertainty during which the judges met about their upcoming docket but declined to make any announcements about their plans to consider the gay marriage issue. There were 10 pending cases regarding same-sex marriage...

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Baby Leopard Brothers Come to San Diego Zoo

Meet Riki-san and Haui-san, a cute and clumsy pair of clouded leopard cubs that made their debut this week at the San Diego Zoo. The 14-week-old brothers came to Southern California by way of the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, which has a breeding program aimed at boosting the numbers of this species, listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Named for their...

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SEC charges China affiliates of top accounting firms

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Monday charged the Chinese arms of five top accounting firms with securities violations over their refusal to produce certain audit papers for U.S.-listed Chinese companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission began proceedings against the Chinese affiliates of Deloitte, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BDO and Ernst & Young. The agency on Monday...

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Morgan Stanley trader was probed at Goldman: sources

(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley hired former Goldman Sachs trader Edward Glenn Hadden to run its Treasury bond desk last year, even though his former employer had placed the trader on paid leave for about a year following an internal inquiry, said three people familiar with the situation. The inquiry by Goldman involved a matter separate from an ongoing investigation by exchange operator CME Group into...

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