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Amidst the intoxicated love-fest over Google+, Facebook is trying to steal back a ray of spotlight with an “awesome” mystery announcement on Wednesday. There is understandably a great deal of speculation surrounding what it might be (check out our round-up here), but there’s one possibility that seems to have struck a chord: …

Fireworks aren't the only lights in the night sky across the United States this Fourth of July. The International Space Station is up there too, just in time for the holiday weekend.

After months of intense training, the astronauts set to fly on NASA's final space shuttle flight are raring to go, so it's no surprise they are taking steps to avoid catching a  last-minute cold.

There’s been quite a bit of talk about how Google ripped off some of Facebook’s features with its new social network, Google+. But it seems the biting goes both ways. Now, a group of four Facebook engineers have launched an unofficial Facebook app called “Circle Hack,” which allows users to organize their friends into lists …

Fireworks aren't the only lights in the night sky across the United States this Fourth of July. The International Space Station is up there too, just in time for the holiday weekend.

After months of intense training, the astronauts set to fly on NASA's final space shuttle flight are raring to go, so it's no surprise they are taking steps to avoid catching a  last-minute cold.

The patent war between Samsung and Apple took another turn this week, with Samsung dropping its patent-infringement countersuit against Apple to focus on its defense, reports Bloomberg.

The Vatican is turning to the Internet in its struggle against child abuse with a new website allowing clergy around the world to share information on eradicating the problem.

My initial experience with Google+ is impressively positive, but how will I feel tomorrow?

No doubt your summer celebrations this weekend will leave you little time to catch up on reading. To help you out, we've compiled a handy roundup of this week's most helpful, informative and inspiring stories.

Thai police on Saturday warned election candidates and citizens not to use websites such as Facebook or Twitter to continue campaigning on the eve of the national vote -- or risk going to jail.

When Appolicious reviewer Phil Hornshaw identifies a premise he hasn’t seen before in a physics puzzler, the game has something original to offer. This is the case with Kona’s Crate, which Hornshaw describes as “complex, challenging... and all about manipulating rockets using the touchscreen.”

Google+, the search giant's social network, has just received a strong endorsement from one of the pioneers of social networking: MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson.

Underage drinking over the Fourth of July weekend brings double the usual number of boys to emergency rooms, according to a government report.

After a close encounter with a texting teen at a busy intersection recently, we wondered: Has texting taken over as the primary form of communication for today's teens?

The New York Times has update its iOS apps to comply with Apple's rules for in-app purchases, just a day after the June 30 deadline.

Watch something in motion, say, a waterfall or scrolling text on a video game, then look away at a rock, a wall, or anything stationary. Briefly, the stationary object will appear to move in the opposite direction.

Continuing a growing trend over the past several decades, a new poll shows that most Americans want smaller families. Fifty-eight percent of Americans are now saying that smaller families with no more than two children are the ideal; this number is up from a low of 17 percent in the 1960s.

American artist Jackson Pollock was an intuitive master of the flow of fluids, relying on the laws of physics to turn his splashes, drips and drizzles into the iconic abstract creations they came to be.

The rise of modern mammals, which came with a dramatic warming of the Earth, may be traced to hot magma, new research suggests.

According to a report from NetMarketShare, Apple's iPad makes up one percent of global Web browsing.

Samsung keeps innovating. At tradeshows you’ll find their applied research projects that include next generation touch-screen vending machines, 3D TVs that don’t require special glasses, and much more. Samsung also produces many top-selling Android phones and is one of the key makers of Android-based tablets.

The moon blocked part of the sun in a partial solar eclipse today (July 1) in an event caught on camera by a European satellite, even though it was largely invisible to everyone on planet Earth.