Google Knowledge Graph: Smarter Search Will Identify The 'Real Things' You Are Looking For [VIDEO]

As Google rolls out more new changes to their search engine, the Menlo Park, Calif. based company has released the details to their latest search innovation -- "Knowledge Graph." The new Google search feature will reportedly work with its users to fully understand what they mean by their search entry, according to Mashable.

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Greece Concerns Counteract Good News In US: Daily Markets Wrap

Greece continued to weigh heavily on confidence Wednesday as bank customers there began sending cash out of the country or hiding it under their beds -- this despite hints from German Chancellor Angela Merkel that a "stimulus" would be forthcoming if the country stuck to its austerity commitments.

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Global Losses From Greek Euro Zone Exit Could Reach €1 Trillion

The financial markets appear to have already priced in Greece's departure from the euro bloc.

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A post-IPO Facebook strategy

Try as they might, many retail investors won't be able to get shares of Facebook in its first hours of trading.

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Verizon sees revenue increase from shared plans

Verizon Wireless should see an increase in data revenue after it offers new shared data plans this summer, according to a top executive for parent company Verizon Communications Inc.

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Micron Shares Surge On Apple Japan Orders

Shares of Micron Technology (Nasdaq: MU), the only U.S. maker of memory chips, jumped as much as 9 percent Thursday on a report that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, had placed a huge order in Japan.

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France's New Socialist Government Names Cabinet

Interestingly, Martine Aubry, the leader of the Socialist party rejected an offer to head a "super ministry."

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Forex: What Happens If Greece Leaves The Euro?

The growing possibilities of an imminent Greek exit from the single currency bloc could drive up the value of safe-haven currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the British pound, while hurting a number of emerging Asian currencies that are sensitive to investors' risk appetite.

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Greece: Syriza Leader Attacks EU And Merkel, As Caretaker Government Takes Shape

Tsipras has said he wants Greece to remain in the euro zone, but has demanded that bailout agreements be renegotiated by providing more favorable terms.

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Virgin Atlantic Clears Cell Phone Usage For Takeoff, But It Will Cost You

If the Sir Richard Branson ice cubes aren't enough, Virgin Atlantic is giving travelers another reason to choose their airline - cell phone use has been cleared for takeoff by the company. The downfall? It will cost you.

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Japan's Tepco, Mitsubishi To Buy 10% Stake In Chevron Natural Gas Field

The Japanese government and local companies will buy a 10 percent stake in Chevron Corp. (CVX)'s Wheatstone natural gas field in Australia for 350 billion yen ($4.37 billion), Nikkei newspaper reported.

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GE To Buy Australia's Industrea For $696 Million, Fairchild Intl For Undisclosed Amount

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) said it would buy two mining equipment companies as it seeks to expand in the $61 billion global mining supplier industry.

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Living Barbie Doll: Valeria Lukyanova to Give up Eating and Live on Sunlight [SLIDESHOW]

Ukraine's very own Valeria Lukyanova, aka Amatue, has recently taken to YouTube to declare that she would eventually like to give up food completely and live off sunlight.

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Shell Joins Asian Co.'s in Huge Canadian Drilling Venture

A coalition of companies has joined Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell in an unprecedented, landmark joint-venture to exploit natural gas resources in Western Canada.

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How to Jailbreak iPad 2 Using Absinthe for Mac and PC

How to jailbreak your iPad running iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe on Mac and Windows.

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Pirate Bay Down After Anonymous-Style DDoS Attack

The Pirate Bay, bane of content creators and love of downloaders, has endured a prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has disabled the site for an unusually prolonged period of time, with many pointing to hacktivist group Anonymous as the source of the problem.

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The Android Plan: Why Google Will Mimic Microsoft To Conquer Apple

Google will reportedly work with up to five different manufacturers at once to offer a wide variety of Android devices, including both smartphones and tablets. The move is a big power play from Google in its efforts to surpass Apple, and it could absolutely work, mainly because it's worked before with Microsoft.

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ECB Stops Operations With Some Greek Banks: Sources

The European Central Bank has stopped monetary policy operations with some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, euro zone central bank sources said on Wednesday.

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Greece: Economic Crisis Sparks Surge In Suicides

The surge in people killing themselves can be directly linked to "increased insecurity and uncertainty for the future."

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North Korea 'Piracy' Targets China Fishing Vessels, As Chinese Fishermen Draw Controversy Across Asia-Pacific

Chinese fishermen are finding themselves at the center of foreign policy disputes between their country and many others across the region. Even friends like North Korea seem to have it out for Chinese fishing vessels.

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