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Facebook Kills Feed Highlights. Time To Declare News Feed Optimization Dead? (Updated)

I knew something was missing from the Facebook homepage for the past few days but not until this morning did I realize what was now absent: highlights. For those unaware of what feed highlights were, they were supposed to be the most relevant stories for a user. I noticed more recently that many of the feed stories weren’t very relevant to me and apparently many other users realized the same thing because now they’re gone.

At one point Facebook’s feed was a filtered system which automatically determined which stories were more relevant but with the Twitterfication of Facebook the feed…


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Optimize your PC Performance promptly

QuuSoft today announced the release of QuuSoft System Care 5.0 to build on its success as a High-performance system maintenance application which contains a fully featured registry cleaner utility that eliminates the registry problems.
It counters:
·Invalid registry
·Useless values and keys
·Large Registry Size
·Dead entries in Windows Registry
The Registry is the heart and soul of every Windows operating system. The older your PC is, the messier its registry becomes.
With continuous installation and uninstallation of applications, Windows registry will bloat up increasingly. Sometimes, some of the applications aren’t removed completely, leaving the corresponding entries left in the…

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Hundreds Die In Urumqi. Does The World Care?

According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, “calm” had returned to the streets as the death toll from Sunday’s protests hit 156, with 800 injured, and 1,434 protestors detained.  Officials say most of the dead were Han Chinese, while Uyghur groups report that 90% of those killed were Uyghurs.  Though reports about the ethnic background of those killed and accounts of the protest may vary, one thing is clear.  The Chinese government has cracked down, enforced curfews, and rounded up protestors in an effort to stop future unrest.  Meanwhile,  wall posts from Uyghurs,…


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Automotive

Bigger Power with Two Strokes!

What is a -stroke diesel engine?As the name suggests, these engines work on reciprocatingactions of pistons. One stroke means one linear motion of thepiston in one direction. When the piston moves in the oppositedirection, that is counted as another stroke.For a -stroke engine, the piston has to move up, and then downto complete one cycle of the engine. In those strokes of thepiston, the crankshaft will have turned revolution.The strokes of the piston is to complete stages of thecombustion cycle – air intake, compression, combustion andexhaust. As you might have known, in order for a fire orexplosion to occur…


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