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Photos claim to expose inside, outside of iPad 3

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:06:16 PST

Are we peering inside the iPad 3, while seeing design tweaks to the outside too? [Read more]

Social Media Week in Review: What you may have missed

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:16:56 PST

Since it's so hard to keep up with everything that's shared on social media, here's a weekly guide to things that may have passed you by. [Read more]

Zuckerberg turns up at home of Linsanity

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:40:22 PST

The Facebook CEO suddenly turns up at today's Knicks game? A sports fan? Surely only of blood sports. [Read more]

Apple supplier Foxconn says it will raise salaries

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:18:47 PST

The now infamous maker of parts for the iPad and the iPhone says it will increase worker salaries at factories in China, according to a report. [Read more]

Single-atom transistor built with precise control

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PST

Seeking to keep Moore's Law on pace, researchers have developed a repeatable technique for assembling a single-atom version of the transistor--the building block of semiconductors and computers. [Read more]

How Virgin Atlantic's birthday e-mail stabbed me in the heart

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:58:06 PST

Some companies are very fond of sending customers birthday e-mails. Virgin Atlantic, however, sent me one that called me a very sad name and questioned whether my parents had ever wanted me at all. [Read more]

LG Optimus Vu--another 5-inch, pen-friendly Android phone

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:29:39 PST

Another big phone and its stylus are giving the Samsung Galaxy Note some company. [Read more]

DARPA plans 'Avatar' surrogate robots

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:05:12 PST

The agency apparently wants to create remotely operated bipedal machines that could perform some soldiering duties. Flying dragons not included. [Read more]

Finally, a cost estimate for building a real Death Star

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:39:07 PST

The Empire's crown jewel would take more than 800,000 years and many thousand times the world's GDP to build. [Read more]

How to buy a home theater audio system

Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:51:00 PST

Before you start looking for your home theater audio system, first determine whether you're mostly going to watch movies and TV or listen to music. [Read more]