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#5. B.o.B. – Strange Clouds – 76,000 (76,000)

#17. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 21,000 (436,000)

#20. Santigold – Master Of My Make Believe – 18,000 (18,000)

#31. Drake – Take Care – 12,000 (1,723,000)

#32. Future – Pluto – 12,000 (70,000)

#54. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 7,200 (214,000)

#63. Young Jeezy – TM103: Hustlerz Ambition – 6,200 (580,000)

#98. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 4,000 (1,425,000)

#132. Trip Lee – The Good Life – 3,000 (29,000)

#155. Odd Future – OF Tape, Vol. 2 – 2,500 (74,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

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Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)

1. Marvel’s The Avengers $207.4 m
2. Think Like A Man $8.1 m
3. The Hunger Games $5.5 m
4. The Pirates! Band of Misfits $5.5 m
5. The Lucky One $5.3 m

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Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, GWOP Magazine has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.

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One of the art world’s most recognizable images, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” sold for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.
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#8. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 32,000 (415,000)

#18. Future – Pluto – 17,000 (59,000)

#30. Drake – Take Care – 12,000 (1,711,000)

#51. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 7,600 (207,000)

#84. Prozak – Paranormal – 5,400 (5,500)

#88. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 4,400 (1,421,000)

#94. Trip Lee – The Good Life – 4,000 (27,000)

#114. Death Grips – Money Store – 3,200 (3,400)

#118. Mickey Avalon – Loaded – (3,100) (3,100)

#116. Odd Future – OF Tape, Vol. 2 – 3,100 (71,000)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

Cinco De Mayo is this weekend and everyone is looking for a good place to party before, during and after the Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto fight in Las Vegas, NV. Checkout our list of top night spots in Las Vegas after the jump.

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Checkout These Cool Nightlife Spots next time you visit Lost Wages Las Vegas.

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Think Like A Man earned $17.6 million this weekend at the top of the domestic box office chart. Through the first 10 days in theaters, the movie has already made $60 million, which makes it the highest grossing movie of April 2012.

Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)
1. Think Like A Man $17.6 m
2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits $11.1 m
3. The Lucky One $10.8m
4. The Hunger Games $10.8 m
5. The Five Year Engagement $10.6 m

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20 years ago this week began one of the most destructive riots in US History.

A jury verdict in the infamous beating of Rodney King set off the Los Angeles riots in which 53 people died, more than 2,000 were injured and property damage totaled $1 billion.

For more than a year, the people of Los Angeles had been watching the video of four police officers beating King at the end of a pursuit in Lakeview Terrace. On April 29, 1992, the world was watching when the verdict came in for officers Timothy Wind, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno and Sgt. Stacy Koon. All of the defendants were acquitted, except for one count against Powell in which the jury could not decide.

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Young adults from affluent families are more likely to live at home than their poorer counterparts, a new study from Australia’s Melbourne Institute has found (via the Wall Street Journal). Three quarters of 20-year-olds from wealthy backgrounds live at home, while less than two-thirds of young adults whose families used welfare still rely on them for financial support, the report finds.

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#6. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 48,000 (383,000)

#8. Future – Pluto – 41,000 (41,000)

#20. Drake – Take Care – 16,000 (1,699,000)

#46. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 8,300 (199,000)

#57. Young Jeezy – TM103: Hustlerz Ambition – 7,000 (567,000)

#65. Trip Lee – The Good Life – 6,000 (24,000)

#81. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 5,000 (1,417,000)

#93. Odd Future – OF Tape, Vol. 2 – 4,300 (69,000)

#152. Diggy – Unexpected Arrival – 2,700 (45,000)

#167. Snoop Dogg – Stoner’s EP – 2,500 (2,500)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

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Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)

1. Think Like A Man $33.6 m
2. The Lucky One $22.5 m
3. Hunger Games $14.6 m
4. Chimpanzee $10.6 m
5. The Three Stooges $8 m


It only takes half a second for Google to return a search based on keywords you type in, but there’s a whole lot more happening behind the scenes to give you the results you need. Google on Monday launched a video that explains the science behind how the massive search engine actually works.

Matt Cutts, software engineer head of Google’s webspam team, details in a YouTube video how the search engine giant thoroughly scours the web on a daily basis to provide the most up-to-date results to users.
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