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'Limbo' is heaven to play

While everyone is busy talking about how 3-D is going to revolutionize gaming, a little 2-D game is lighting the summer on fire.

Alien planets locked in close embrace

Two distant alien planets around a dying star have been discovered locked in the closest orbital embrace ever seen, a new study has found. ...

Mississippi River blamed for giant 1811 quakes

Massive earthquakes that struck the town of New Madrid, Mo., in 1811 can be traced to the actions of the mighty Mississippi River thousands of ...

Plankton, base of ocean food web, in big decline

Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the ...

'World's oldest Twitter user' Ivy Bean dies at 104

Ivy Bean, the Internet-famous centenarian heralded as world's oldest Twitter user, passed away last night at her retirement home in Branford, England. She was 104. ...

Dell's Streak tablet launch off to rough start

The launch of Dell's Streak 5-inch tablet-phone is quickly turning into a fiasco, despite the company's attempts to bring clarity to the matter. ...

Women rule on social networking sites

Social networking sites are reaching a higher percentage of women than men worldwide, with 75.8 percent of all women online visiting such sites in May, ...

Apple sued over overheating iPads

A trio of Northern Californians is suing Apple because their iPads reportedly overheat too quickly in the sun. ...

Slideshow: How zoos beat the heat

Zookeepers give animals some tasty ways to cool off. ...

Some space shuttle workers get layoff notices

NASA's prime space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, sent layoff notices this week to more than 15 percent of its 8,100-member shuttle work force, officials ...

Tropical cyclone birth predicted with supercomputer

Predicting whether or not a storm system will grow into a hurricane is difficult. But a new supercomputer model has taken a leap forward in ...

Hackers craft creative check fraud scam

Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of check fraud, a ...

Disney to buy social-gaming site Playdom

The Walt Disney Co. is buying online social-gaming company Playdom for $563.2 million, the latest sign the company is becoming a formidable player in the ...