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The Inside Story Of A $1 Billion Acquisition That Caused Cisco To Divorce Its Closest Partner, What You Missed This Weekend, Lead Singer Of Staind Botches National Anthem At World Series Game 5, The Truth Behind Matthew Shepard's Murder, These Robots Use Static Electricity To Move Just About Everything, The Decline Of California Agriculture Has Begun The Daily Digg Monday, October 27, 2014 IT BEGINS LONG AGO, IN THE YEAR 2012 The Inside Story Of A $1 Billion Acquisition That Caused Cisco To Divorce Its Closest Partner businessinsider.com Tech giant EMC said last week that it's ending its wildly successful joint venture with Cisco, known as VCE. This is the most recent — and most serious — step in the slowly unfolding divorce between the partners. DIGG PICKS What You Missed This Weekend digg.com U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, retailers are fighting back against Apple Pay and other things you may have missed this weekend. YOU HAD ONE JOB Lead Singer Of Staind Botches National Anthem At World Series Game 5 digg.com Apparently, nu-metaler Aaron Lewis — who was hired specifically to perform the national anthem — does not know or did not remember the words he was supposed to sing. LATE-BREAKING TWIST The Truth Behind Matthew Shepard's Murder theguardian.com Matthew Shepard's horrific death at the hands of redneck homophobes shocked America and changed its laws. Now a different truth is emerging, but does it matter? POWERED BY CARPETS, BALLOONS, DOORKNOBS These Robots Use Static Electricity To Move Just About Everything theverge.com Did you know that the same forces that generate static electricity can be strong enough to pick up and move boxes, crates, and other objects? A robot startup named GrabIt is making mechanical "hands" that use electrostatic attraction to gently pick up and transport objects. DRY SPELL The Decline Of California Agriculture Has Begun slate.com If there's one thing that struck me during my month-long drought-themed road trip through the American West earlier this year, it was the colossal scale of agriculture in California's Central Valley. Now it seems there's nowhere to go but down. Read more on Digg.com → 2000 DEGREES, .008 MPH This Oct. 26, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the lava flow front of from an eruption that began the June 27, as the front remains active and continues to advance towards the northeast threatening the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Credit: AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014