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Updated 10/06/11 at 9:24 a.m.Tributes and testimonials are pouring in from Chicago and around the world as people remember Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday.  He was 56.There's now a makeshift memorial for Steve Jobs at the Apple Store in downtown Chicago.

This week a photo of nails in cheese began circulating around Facebook. The photo, displaying chunks of cheese with nails in them, was captioned with the ominous message that cheese like this was being found in dog parks in Chicago and Massachusetts.

A Chicago firm is trying to prevent Facebook from launching a feature it says will harm its business. Chicago-based Timelines Inc., which operates www.timelines.com, recently sought a temporary restraining order to prevent Facebook from rolling out a site feature that would display a “timeline”

Scientists at west suburban Fermilab will pull the plug Friday on their giant particle collider, the Tevatron.When it began crashing particles together in 1985, the Tevatron became the world’s most powerful atom smasher.

Right now, armies of marketers, pollsters and social scientists are trying to figure out what Americans are thinking about — issues like global warming or Lady Gaga's latest outfit. Surveys are only so good: It's hard to get a big enough sample to be sure of the results.

The Tevatron particle collider shut down in September of 2011. Once the highest-energy collide in the world, it is survived by its descendants, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Scientists at west suburban Fermilab are already working to scrutinize a potential scientific discovery widely believed to be impossible. European physicists announced last week they clocked something traveling faster than the speed of light.