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As Google tries to boost its social market share with its new Google+ network—which just got some Facebook-style games designed to increase engagement—and Twitter adds new activity streams to pull users in, and Facebook tries to become ... If you cant see the meteors from your backyard, log on to NASAs website. By Nathan McIntire Meteors, stars and the aurora visible last night during the Perseid Meteor Shower. The Chinese city of Kunming has stopped 22 fake Apple stores from using Apples trademarks - including its iconic logo - after the company submitted a complaint to the local government. The Arctics summer ice coverage could hold its ground or even bounce back slightly, even as global average temperatures rise. Google announced Chromebooks just three months ago to both wildly positive and equally negative punditry. (Although I praised the Chomebooks, InfoWorlds Galen Gruman panned them, as did InfoWorlds Neil McAllister in his ... By IB Times Staff Reporter | August 13, 2011 12:19 AM EDT A new study has revealed that the brains of both human babies and chimp babies get developed by life experience, but compared to baby chimpanzees; brains of human babies develop much faster and ... Jeff Bezos, Amazons chief executive, has applied for a patent on a mobile phone safety feature that would deploy an airbag if the device falls. By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 13, 2011 2:36 AM EDT Astronomers using NASAs Kepler spacecraft have discovered the darkest known planet in the galaxy called TrES-2b located around 750 million light years away. Acers latest editions in its Iconia tablet computer line are two A100 tablets -- one with 8 GB of storage, one with 16. They run on Android Honeycomb and ring up for more than $100 less than a new iPad 2. However, the seven-inch ... The suspension of Department of the Interior scientist Charles Monnett due to an investigation for integrity issues has raised the suspicion that the whole affair was related to his 2006 polar bear study suggesting that bears had drowned while ... Rhe Orion MPVC Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle ground test article (GTA) is displayed at the Lockheed Martin Vertical Test Facility in Colorado. NEW YORK - Hewlett-Packard Co. has cut prices of TouchPad tablet computers by $100 one month after introducing the product, a move that may help the company compete with Apple Inc.s market-leading iPad. Apple fanboys, it might be time to start the countdown to the iPhone 5. According to MacRumors, Apple has a media event scheduled for September 7, where it might announce the fifth-gen smartphone. Research in Motion could launch the much awaited QNX based smartphones code named the BlackBerry Colt by Q1 2012. [1] This is an important step from RIMs point of view as its fate is largely tied to the success of the QNX operating system. At the end of the 1970s the Apple II, Commodore Pet and Atari 800 all preceded IBMs Model 5150. However, on Friday the company celebrated the passing of 30 years of PC-compatible hardware and software development. Forty-two radio telescope dishes near Mount Shasta will again start listening for sounds of intelligent life in the universe this fall after donors -- including actress Jodie Foster -- came up with more than $200000 to save the Mountain ... By TechCrunch.com, As expected, Samsung has decided to fight back against Apples preliminary injunction to ban sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the European Union (excluding the Netherlands). Valve Software announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which launches in early 2012 for PCs, Macs, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Scientists say they have found the first evidence that giant sea reptiles - which lived at the same time as dinosaurs - gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. By REUTERS General Motors said Friday that it was recalling 16198 Chevrolet Impala and Buick LaCrosse cars from the 2012 model year in the United States and Canada to address sensor and power steering problems.
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