Burger King says that its new French Fries “Satisfries”  have 30% fewer calories and 40% less fat than McDonald’s fries.

According to Burger King,  the crinkle-cut product  is lighter because the batter used absorbs less oil than typical French-fry batter.  The smallest portion of the fries has about 190 calories.  Burger King’s regular fries will still be offered. Read more »

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Four LinkedIn users have filed a lawsuit accusing the business-oriented social network of accessing their third party e-mail accounts such as Google’s Gmail without permission, harvesting the addresses of their contacts and sending multiple reminder emails ostensibly on behalf of the user advertising LinkedIn to non-members (e.g., Google’s Gmail, Yahoo! Mail) .  The class action lawsuit charges LinkedIn with violations of federal and state law. Read more »

Elon Musk, founder of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (Space X) demonstrates the  Iron Man design technology at his fingertips inside the rocket-making labs of his company Space X.

Musk first demonstrates how he can grab, rotate and zoom in on a model of SpaceX’s Merlin rocket engine on a computer screen by waving his hands. He then shows how the full Computer Aided Design  model of the rocket engine can be manipulated on a bigger screen and in 3D if the user is wearing special glasses.

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Thousands of fish are expected to die in Honolulu waters after a leaky storage tank pipe caused 233,000 gallons of molasses  to flow into the harbor on Monday, state officials said.   The shipping company, Matson Navigation Co., repaired the hole and the pipe stopped leaking Tuesday morning,Matson  spokesman Jeff Hull said.

We had a molasses disaster in Boston on January 15, 1919.

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