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Posted: 24 May 2011 07:15 PM PDT

Find out which contestant lost the most weight and grabbed the season 11 title

Maria Shriver Hires Private Detective To Help With Divorce

Posted: 24 May 2011 07:16 PM PDT

Maria Shriver is a woman scorned, and she's not going to let her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, off the hook for living a double life and humiliating her in front of the entire world. According to Radar Online, Maria has hired a private investigator to find out just how much the acting politician is worth, and to look into his past—is there another love child we don't know about? More than one? If so, she wants to know. She's gearing up for a divorce.

Op-Ed Columnist: Lessons From Tahrir Sq.

Posted: 24 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT

Do the Israelis or Palestinians have any surprise in them?

Editorial: As Housing Goes, So Goes the Economy

Posted: 24 May 2011 06:14 PM PDT

The ailing market is not going to heal itself. The Obama administration should champion a government fix, and Congress and regulators should act on it.

Room For Debate: The Downsized College Graduate

Posted: 24 May 2011 05:16 PM PDT

Employment rates for new college graduates have tanked. Are there factors other than the economy to blame?

Editorial: Standing Up to Unwarranted Police Power

Posted: 24 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT

Justice Ginsburg's dissent underscores her importance to American law.

Editorial: The G-8’s Self-Serving Math

Posted: 24 May 2011 06:07 PM PDT

The G-8 seems determined to fudge the numbers rather than admit to a broken promise.

Editorial: Protecting High-Risk Students in New Jersey

Posted: 24 May 2011 05:58 PM PDT

The State Supreme Court found Gov. Chris Christie's draconian school budget cuts to be unconstitutional.

Last Xbox Founder Leaves Microsoft

Posted: 24 May 2011 07:14 PM PDT

It's the end of an era: the last member of the original Xbox team has resigned from Microsoft.

Otto Berkes, the current partner hardware architect for Bing, ended his 18-year career at the company on Monday, according to The Seattle Times. He is apparently joining "for another company outside of the Seattle area." Microsoft has yet to return Mashable's request for comment.

Berkes, along with Ted Hase, Kevin Bachus and Seamus Blackey, sent the first proposal for the Xbox game console to Bill Gates in March 1999, and it wasn't long until they had Gates and most of the company's leadership on board with the project. Two-and-a-half years later, the original Xbox made its debut.

Microsoft's Xbox has since evolved from gaming device to an entertainment powerhouse. Xbox Live, which recently added Hulu Plus to its lineup, has millions of paying subscribers. And Xbox Kinect has broken world records with its stellar sales.

Berkes first joined Microsoft as a graphics technology developer in June 1993. Beyond helping create the Xbox, he was one of the people behind the ill-fated Courier tablet device and worked with former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.

Berkes is the final member of the four-person Xbox founding team to leave Microsoft. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002 and is now with Creative Artists Agency. Hase resigned in 2006 and is now a VP at Aristocrat Technologies. Bachus has moved on as Bebo's new Chief Product Officer.

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