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LinkedIn provided further evidence of online networking's popularity and moneymaking potential with a fourth-quarter performance that got a glowing review on Wall Street. more...
Mesmerizing new video captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station reveals a stunning view of the aurora borealis last month as a solar flare triggered an especially vivid display in the night sky. more...
U.S. regulators are considering a plan to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in a generation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is set to vote Thursday on Southern Co.'s request to build two new reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. more...
Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. NASA's former science chief is calling the plan irrational. more...
Internet service providers should not be treated as broadcasters under the law, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed Thursday. more...
Kodak says it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on its more profitable businesses. more...
Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing. more...
An attempt to block Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make the Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plans to censor content at governments' requests. more...
The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited. more...
For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast. more...
An effort to free whales from SeaWorld by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday. more...
Social-sharing app Path has come under fire for accessing and uploading users' phone address books without their permission. more...
A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. more...
Researchers say an ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales. more...
Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cellphones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector. more...
Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of lawsuits against it for phone hacking, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced in a London court Wednesday. more...
After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years -- a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clues to the search for life on other planets. more...
Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks. more...
Europe's air safety authority is calling for checks on the entire fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets for cracks on parts inside the wings -- extending a previous order to check nearly a third of the planes. more...
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