MassChallenge starts up 2015 with lots new

MassChallenge kicks off a new season on three continents this month, with a new managing director and new workspace for startups in Boston. The accelerator and competition's programs in the Hub, Tel Aviv and its newest location — London — will accept...

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Obama budget sets up battle with GOP-controlled Congress

WASHINGTON — After a year of relative peace in Washington's budget battles, President Barack Obama will lay out a $4 trillion budget on Monday that needles Republicans with proposals for higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for education,...

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Feds recall faulty airbags for second fix Drivers, bring your vehicles back to the shop for more work on faulty air bags. The government said yesterday more than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles need a second fix for air bags that...

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Pirate Bay back online less than two months after going dark

Notorious piracy site The Pirate Bay has come back online, seven weeks after Swedish law enforcement officials shut it down and seized the group's previous servers in a December raid. The Internet address of the relaunched thepiratebay.se site -- which...

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Shake Shack shares more than double in stock market debut

NEW YORK — Wall Street went wild for burgers Friday. Shares of Shake Shack, a burger chain that started as a New York City hot dog cart, more than doubled in their first day of trading. The company raised $105 million in its initial public offering...

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Germany's Merkel says she doesn't see another Greek debt cut

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined the refusal of Greece's European creditors to consider forgiving part of the debt-ridden country's rescue loans, though she stressed in an interview published Saturday that Berlin's aim is to keep...

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NASA launches Earth-observing satellite

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A NASA satellite lifted off early Saturday with the hope it will transmit data that will help the world do a better job of preparing for floods and droughts. The satellite is on a three-year mission to track the amount...

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Harvard hacks for congress

A group of techies, political scientists and open government advocates are putting their heads together at a hackathon this weekend to develop new digital tools, policies and technologies to overcome the dysfunction gripping Congress. "There are about...

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More millennials jumping into the mortgage market

WASHINGTON — Call them the prodigal millennials: Statistical measures and anecdotal reports suggest that young couples and singles in their late 20s and early 30s have begun making a belated entry into the home buying market, pushed by mortgage rates...

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Spark plugs need changing, but long warmup needless

I have a 2001 PT Cruiser with 100,000 miles on it. Would you recommend a spark plug change? Also, I keep hearing that it's not good to warm up your car nowadays. Hey, when it's 20-below I really don't care if it wastes a cup of gas! They say that the...

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