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 A news headline about the Tumblr sale to Yahoo scrolls on a building in New York's Times Square, May 20, 2013.

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Various Chinese microblog websites are seen on a screen in this photo illustration taken in Beijing, Sep. 13, 2011.

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Mandiant Founder & CEO Kevin Mandia (L) and Mandiant CSO Richard Bejtlich participate in the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, May 13, 2013.

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Comet ISON is shown in this NASA handout image photographed by the Hubble telescope on April 10, 2013.

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Video Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

Two new medical discoveries are raising hopes of containing malaria - the mosquito-borne parasitic disease that each year infects more than 200 million people and claims an estimated 660 thousand lives. Meantime, the World Health Organization is warning about dire consequences if a drug-resistant form of malaria spreads beyond southeast Asia.