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The troubled actress - whose latest stint in rehab is due to end on Wednesday - is set to take over presenting duties from Chelsea Handler in the August 5 episode of the chat show. Lindsay is also set to sit down for a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey and film an eight-part documentary for the media mogul's channel OWN. Meanwhile, it has been claimed the 27-year-old actress has made two lists of all her acquaintances with the intention of culling all the "bad" influences when she leaves rehab. Out of her 100 pals and family members, 80 of her so-called friends are set to face the chop, TMZ is reporting. There is a possibility her father Michael Lohan - with whom she has a tumultuous relationship - could also be on the list. The star is keen to stay on the straight and narrow when she leaves her Malibu-based treatment facility, where she is serving a 90-day stint as part of a plea deal for lying to police during a car crash last summer.

  Lindsay Lohan has finished her three-month stint in rehab. The troubled actress was spotted sporting a huge smile as she climbed into a vehicle to depart the Cliffside drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Malibu, California, Tuesday afternoon following a 90-day court-ordered spell. Sources close to the 27-year-old actress - who has battled alcohol and drug abuse in the past - told gossip website TMZ the flame-haired beauty will stay with a sober coach in Los Angeles for the next few days before she enters the real world again.  Straight back to work Lindsay will head straight back to work on Monday when she hosts an episode of chat show Chelsea Lately , taking over presenting duties from Chelsea Handler. The Canyons star's mother Dina Lohan recently confirmed her daughter will be moving to New York City when she leaves rehab, rather than return to live with her at the family home in Long Island, New York. She said: "Lindsay is 27, my kids all have their...

Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop–or even slow down–produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a deep groaning sound, like an angry water buffalo bellowing somewhere under the SUV’s chassis. The more I pound the pedal, the louder the groan gets–along with the delighted cackling of the two hackers sitting behind me in the backseat. Luckily, all of this is happening at less than 5mph. So the Escape merely plows into a stand of 6-foot-high weeds growing in the abandoned parking lot of a South Bend, Ind. strip mall that Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have chosen as the testing grounds for the day’s experiments, a few of which are shown in the video below. (When Miller discovered the brake-disabling trick, he wasn’t so lucky: The soccer-mom mobile barreled through his garage, crushing his lawn mower and inflicting $150 worth of damage to the rear wall.)

Washington - A Canadian-built helicopter that is powered by a human riding a bicycle has become the first winner of a decades-old $250 000 engineering prize, the US awarder said on Friday. The American Helicopter Society had never given out its Igor Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Award - initiated 33 years ago - until the team from the University of Toronto snatched it this week. The challenge was to create a flying machine that would be able to reach a height of three metres, fly for 60 seconds by human power alone, and stay in a 10 by 10 metre area. "It was long seen as impossible to win this," AHS International executive director Mike Hirschberg told AFP. The winning vehicle is called the Atlas, and was designed by a team of about 20 students and young professionals. A challenge for young engineers The aircraft is extremely light - just 55kg - but it spans a sprawling 49.4m. "This is not about creating a practical machine," said Hirschberg. "Th...

n the current economic climate entrepreneurs are required to keep their businesses profitable, while spending as little money as possible. As a result, entrepreneurs should adopt an integrated approach to marketing their business, as the heart of a business’s success lies in its marketing strategy. This is according to Justin Hawes, managing director of Scan Display Solutions and 2012 finalist of the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year® competition. He said that marketing is essential for the growth of a small business. “Marketing is a process by which a product or service is introduced and promoted to potential customers," said Hawes. "Without marketing, a business may offer the best products or services in its respective industry, but potential customers would not know about it. This makes it a vital tool for any entrepreneur entering new markets." Within the industry there is also a perception that only larger, more established businesses need t...

Lively, attractive restaurants lined the street. I randomly picked one place. It was pretty good as well as expensive, as are many things in super modern Singapore. But I left feeling I might have done better with a little more planning. I thought about that meal after I learned about Nara Logics, a company that promises to find restaurants that you love anywhere, based on your own preferences. The site calls itself a “personal discovery engine,” which means it painlessly leads you to restaurants based on the data you have entered into the site. There plenty of apps to help you find a place to eat: Foursquare, OpenTable, UrbanSpoon, Yelp. Nara claims it uses a new type of neural-network algorithm to do the job better, using more sensitive analysis of your (and everyone’s) picks and pans. To date it has made its money through revenue-sharing deals with OpenTable , Uber and GrubHub...

Earlier this month, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope studied exoplanet HD 189733b and determined that it was a deep blue color , thanks to silicates in its atmosphere that can create storms akin to raining glass. Now astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory  have managed to catch sight of the planet as it eclipsed its sun using X-rays. This marks the first time that a planet has ever been observed in this manner. This is actually similar to how HD 189733b was discovered in the first place. In 2005, French astronomers observed the planet transit in front of its star using the normal optical wavelengths that our eyes use. Indeed, most planets outside of our solar system have been discovered in this manner. When a planet transits, it causes part of the star’s brightness to dim as the planet passes in front of the star. Similarly, astronomers at Chandra and Newton viewed the planet pass in ...

After months of teasers and years of testing, BMW showed off the i3 today, its first electric vehicle designed to go into full production. The odd-looking hatchback offers some of the “green cred” of Toyota’s Prius, combined with a promise of BMW-like driving that should please those who don’t want to give up much performance to get there. But because BMW also offers an option of a small gasoline engine to extend the car’s range up to 160+ miles, the i3 ends up encroaching on the territory of both the Chevrolet Volt and even some of the ground Tesla Motors TSLA +3.99% is seeking to conquer. What the heck is this thing? The specifics of the i3 are no accident. BMW has spent 2 billion euro developing electric vehicles, running pilot programs where a number of Mini Coopers and 1-series sedans were leased to real-world customers. The company learned that most people drive 30 miles a day, it says. Like Nissan’s Leaf, the i3 will travel 80-100 miles on a single charge, t...

Comex gold futures prices are modestly lower in early U.S. trading Tuesday, pressured by some position evening and technical chart consolidation ahead of some big economic data due out in the next few days that will most certainly be markets-moving. December gold was last down $5.50 at $1,324.10 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted down $3.70 at $1,324.00. September Comex silver last traded down $0.214 at $19.65 an ounce. Asian and European stock markets were firmer overnight in subdued trading, as key worldwide economic data points are approaching fast. The highlights this week are the U.S. Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting that begins Tuesday and the U.S. employment report Friday. Most expect the Fed will leave its monetary policy unchanged and continue to lean well to the dovish side at this week’s meeting. Many Fed watchers are actually looking ahead to the next FOMC meeting, in September, at which time the central bank could begin its much-anticipated “tapering” of its monthly bond-b...

Ted Rubin, one of the “big fish” in the murky social media marketing pond. (Tom notes that some of those fish are flakier than others–nice one, Tom!) SAP​Voice: Treat Customers Like Dates, New Book Says Todd Wilms Todd Wilms @SAP Five Ways Helpfulness Wins Hearts and Sales Kare Anderson Kare Anderson Contributor Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, 2013? Haydn Shaughnessy Haydn Shaughnessy Contributor Make Your Company Top-of-Mind and Your Employees Proud Kare Anderson Kare Anderson Contributor Rubin is Chief Social Marketing Officer of Collective Bias, a Social Shopper Media Company that drives retail sales through the coordinated creation of social media stories. He was also taking on the role of CHO (Chief Hugs Officer), as he described it, an “extension of our culture and my philosophy of Return on Relationship–always finding opportunities to metaphorically hug/embrace customers.” Hmmm. “Return on Relationship” when it comes to marketing makes sense. We were int...

I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings. Call me a curmudgeon, but at 34, how I came up seems so different from what this millennial generation expects. I made a lot of mistakes along the way, and I see this generation making their own. In response, here are my 20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get. Time is Not a Limitless Commodity – I so rarely find young professionals that have a heightened sense of urgency to get to the next level. In our 20s we think we have all the time in the world to A) figure it out and B) get what we want. Time is the only treasure we start off with in abundance, and can never get back. Make the most of the opportunities you have today, because there will be a time when you have no more of it. You’re Talented, But Talent is Overrated - Congratulations, you may be the most capable, creative, knowledgeable & multi-tasking generation yet. As my father sa...

In a previous blog, I had commented that most of you will never get VC (from a VC limited partnership). But some of you may still have hopes. So for you, the key question is whether you should accept VC if you get an offer from a VC fund. Firstly, remember that securing VC does not mean that you have built a home run or have become wealthy. All it means is that you may have just ceded control of your business to investors whose interests may not coincide with yours. VCs want high returns, which may come at your expense. Secondly, even with VC, you may not make a fortune, but you may have lost control of your one great idea (not many get two, and most of us do not even get one). Most entrepreneurs I met in the course of my financing career had faith that their business would succeed, and that they would make a fortune. Otherwise why become an entrepreneur and suffer the agonies of building a new venture? For many, it is to build a home run. Successful Entrepreneurship Is Not About Win...

The Nigeria LNG Limited, on Friday, said it had lifted the force majeure declaration placed on its buyers and gas suppliers, following the resolution of the crisis between it and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency. The company, in a statement by its General Manager, External Relations, Dr. Kudo Eresia-Eke, said it lost all its product export capability due to the blockade of access to its terminal by NIMASA on Friday, 21st June 2013. “All incoming and outgoing cargo vessels to the NLNG Bonny Terminal (for LNG and NGL vessels) were stopped, forcing NLNG, as a prudent operator, to significantly reduce production in order to be able to manage the LNG and NGL inventories in the available tankage safely and in an environmentally responsible manner,” the statement said. Following the removal of the NIMASA blockade, NLNG said it promptly commenced activities to restore normal operations, and had since been increasing the production levels, in a gradual manner as nec...

Weak results from several United States companies helped tug the stock market down slightly on Friday, putting major indexes on course for their first weekly loss this month, The Associated Press reported . Many traders are also looking ahead to a packed schedule of events next week, including a Federal Reserve meeting and the government’s monthly employment report. “There’s just a deluge of market-moving events next week,” the Chief Market Strategist, LPL Financial, Jeffrey Kleintop said “Traders seem to be erring on the side of caution today.” Expedia plunged 26 per cent, the worst fall in the Standard& Poor’s 500 index. The online travel agency reported earnings late Thursday that badly missed analysts’ expectations. Higher costs were the main culprit. Expedia lost $17.09 to $47.91. A half-hour before the closing bell, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was down two points, or 0.1 per cent, to 1,688. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 16 points, less than 0.1 per ...

Seeking out the billionaires rode in the Rs. 5.5-crore Maybach in 2004. The Rs. 3.8-crore Bentley followed in 2007. And through a journey that saw Rolls Royce and Porsche (both over Rs. 2 crore) and the biggest of them all - the Rs. 16-crore Bugatti Veyron last year - vroom into India, could the Rs. 2.2-crore Ferrari be left behind? These cars - and a whole industry catering to the 600 wealthiest Indians - driving in is merely a signal, a symptom of an economy that at 9% is soon going to be the world's fastest growing. And as the cultural barriers towards wealth creation and enjoyment fall by the wayside, Indian entrepreneurs are finding opportunities, from steel and oil to software and commodities, and turning them into islands of immense affluence. At 55, the number of Indian billionaires - two of them in the top 10 list - is the highest-ever. This is in tune with the global trend, where the number of billionaires (1,210) as well as the value of their wealth ($4.5 trillion, up ...