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text Watch: Apple-Samsung Feud
Mon, 21 May 2012 07:10:13 -0400
Court orders CEOs from Apple, Samsung, to meeting to discuss patent dispute.




feed text Solar Eclipse in Time-Lapse
Mon, 21 May 2012 15:46:35 -0400
This time-lapse video of an annular solar eclipse was shot Sunday by Cory Poole, a 33-year-old physics and math teacher from Redding, Calif., who has  an interest in science and astronomy. "Once I found out that the path of the annular eclipse went directly through my...



Just as we thought Facebook CEO and newly minted billionaire Mark Zuckerberg was on top of the world, he surprised even his friends by marrying his college sweetheart, 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, just after he led the company to one of the biggest IPOs in tech history. Zuckerberg has been...



text Game Review: 'Prototype 2' For Xbox 360
Mon, 21 May 2012 11:15:31 -0400
I love open-world games where the action is only restricted by player fatigue. Being able to run around a huge sand-box of a city, virtually wreaking havoc in creative ways is always fun. "Prototype 2″ builds upon the original, while tightening things and adding just...



text Cable Firms Aim for 50,000 Hotspots
Mon, 21 May 2012 11:01:27 -0400
Being a Bright House, Optimum, Xfinity, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable subscriber is about to get a bit better. Or at least it will if you’re the type that’s always searching for a public WiFi hotspot. Five of the nation’s largest cable companies have...



text Dino Dustup: Battle Over T-Rex Cousin
Mon, 21 May 2012 17:33:07 -0400
The skeleton, which was 75 percent complete and belonging to a cousin of the T-Rex, was sold for more than $1 million this weekend by Heritage Auctions but Mongolia believes it originates from there.



text Annular Eclipse Makes 'Ring of Fire'
Mon, 21 May 2012 08:30:21 -0400
If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight likely seemed to come early this afternoon, well before the sun actually sets, thanks to a rare annular eclipse.



Downplaying or ignoring a coming catastrophe won't make it go away.



text Zuckerberg's Status Update: Married
Mon, 21 May 2012 19:26:59 -0400
Newly minted billionaire Mark Zuckerberg had an important status update Saturday evening: Married. The 28-year-old tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, the recently graduated Dr. Priscilla Chen in a private ceremony at the couple's home in Palo Alto, Calif.



text Gadgets: Illuminating Speaker Dock
Sun, 20 May 2012 15:22:42 -0400
ABC News' gadget roundup this week features an illuminating speaker, carbon fiber ThinkPad ultrabook, and a new Sony camera. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.



text Mark Zuckerberg Marries Priscilla Chan
Sat, 19 May 2012 22:04:29 -0400
Facebook CEO weds his college sweetheart in a backyard ceremony.



text SpaceX Launch Aborted at Last Moment
Sat, 19 May 2012 09:54:37 -0400
It was to have been the dawn of a new era, private companies launching into space and on to the International Space Station. The first such launch was set for before dawn this morning, and it came tantalizingly close. But the SpaceX rocket never got...



text Google Graph Makes Search Smarter
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:18:03 -0400
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.



text Gadgets: iPad as Etch A Sketch
Sun, 13 May 2012 09:21:33 -0400
ABC News' gadget roundup this week features the nostalgically fun Etch A Sketch case for the iPad, a USB battery fuel cell charger for smartphones, and HP's newest Spectre XT ultrabook. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.



text CISPA: Your Privacy at Risk?
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:35:23 -0400
A new piece of controversial technology-related legislation is making its way though the House and now the Senate – the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. What is the bill and what's going to happen next?



text iPhone 5: Reports of New Design
Fri, 18 May 2012 10:05:21 -0400
And the next iPhone chatter keeps on rolling. Over the last week the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg have reported that the next iPhone will have a bigger screen. As previously reported by others, the WSJ and Reuters agree that the display will measure...



Leap Motion is a new accessory that can track subtle finger movements.



text Watch: TechBytes: Facebook, Pinterest
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:45:29 -0400
Facebook is set to launch its initial public offering.



text Watch: TechBytes 5.17.12
Thu, 17 May 2012 05:55:28 -0400
Google introduces their new "knowledge graph" search function.



text Watch: Grad Gadget Gift Guide
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:50:07 -0400
Speakers, Apple TV, Tablets: Great graduation gift ideas for tech-savvy grads.



General Motors pulls advertisements from Facebook.



text Watch: TechBytes: Wireless, Diablo 3
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:29:33 -0400
The top four wireless carriers are nearly tied in customer satisfaction ratings.



text Photos: Black Hole Shreds Star
Wed, 02 May 2012 12:54:36 -0400
The Lyrid meteor shower was so bright that it could been during the day and night from California to Nevada.



text NASA Time-Lapse of Sea Currents
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:39:08 -0400
Click on the video below and prepare to be mesmerized.  It’s called "Perpetual Ocean," and it was put together by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It was actually done about a year ago, compiling data from several satellites...



text Lyrid Meteor Shower of 2012
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:32:38 -0400
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks Saturday night and Sunday morning, April 21-22. It's a relatively small shower -- 20 shooting stars per hour -- but a new moon should mean darker skies and better seeing.



text Mammoth 'Butchered' by Ancient Man
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:28:27 -0400
A young woolly mammoth, found remarkably well preserved in the tundra in Siberia, may have been attacked by lions -- but scientists say there are signs it was then butchered by ancient humans.



text Ancient 'Iceman' Had Modern Ailments
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:58:03 -0500
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the famed 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found frozen in the Alps in 1991 -- and discovered he had genetic vulnerability to heart disease, as well as Lyme disease.



text Ancient Plant Revived After 30,000 Years
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:01:37 -0500
The plant in this picture dates from the Pleistocene Age, 30,000 years ago, before agriculture, before writing, before the last Ice Age. And while it’s not accurate to say the plant itself is that old, scientists in Russia say they regenerated it from frozen cells...



text Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:51:41 -0500
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.



text First Meteor Shower of 2012 Dazzles
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:11:58 -0500
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.



text First Earth-Size Planets Found in Space
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:32:08 -0500
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope say they have found two planets orbiting a distant star -- and say the planets are the first ever that are the size of Earth or smaller. That could be critical in the search for extraterrestrial life.



text 'Draw Something' Tips and Tricks
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:27:55 -0400
Everyone's playing Draw Something. Here's some tips for the popular mobile game



text Pinterest: 5 Ways to Use the Social Site
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:04:57 -0500
Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm. Here are five ways to use the social pinning site.



text Can Windows 8's Apps Beat the iPad's?
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:56:27 -0500
USA Today, American Airlines, Slacker and others have made beautiful Windows 8 apps.