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The Perseid meteor shower, which is considered by many astrologists to be the most well-known meteor showers, peaked Friday night and into the early Saturday morning. 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. (Reuters) - Authorities in Chinas southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the companys store in the city sparked an international storm. The Arctics summer ice coverage could hold its ground or even bounce back slightly, even as global average temperatures rise. 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 ... By IB Times Staff Reporter | August 13, 2011 5:48 AM EDT Amazon has come up with ways to pamper your sleek, expensive smartphones even when you drop them by creating an airbag system for phones. 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 ... An alien world reflects less than one percent of the starlight that falls on it, making it the blackest exoplanet known. TrES-2b orbits its star at a fraction of the Earth-sun distance, ensuring the world is tidally locked. I had to smile when I received an email this week. It was from Mark Dean, one of the engineers behind the original IBM PC and its current CTO in the Mideast. 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). The Google+ real names policy is so bad, Google cant even describe it honestly. Fortunately, the solution is easy and obvious. Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin explains how Amazon could make a $251 Android tablet a profitable e-commerce exercise. Amazon. Models of Americas future deep-space vehicle and a launch-pad emergency system were integrated today to prepare for sound testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Waterton Canyon facility. Goodyear has come up with an novel invention that it is announcing today: self-inflating tires. The tires have an inflation device inside each of them that would keep track of their inflation and add air as necessary. Sprint announced Friday that it will not be selling a 4G version of the PlayBook on its Wi-Max network. “We apologize for any inconvenience but the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook Tablet that was announced in January for summer ... Keep your Battlefields and your Call of Dutys (Calls of Duty?) - every PC gamer worth his salt knows that nothing beat Valves original Counter-Strike for the multiplayer thwarting of terrorism. 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 ... A 78-million-year-old fossil of an adult plesiosaur and its embryo has provided the first evidence to date that the prehistoric marine reptile gave birth to live young. Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment is in talks to receive a major funding injection that would value the Finland-based technology group at around $1.2bn (£740m). 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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