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At speeds even he could barely imagine, Albert Einstein's private papers and innermost thoughts will soon be available online, from a rare scribble of "E=mc2" in his own hand, to political pipe-dreams and secret love letters to his mistress.

Scientists on Tuesday announced a new phase in the search to resolve the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, saying fresh evidence from a remote Pacific island may hold clues to the fate of the renowned U.S. pilot who vanished in 1937 while attempting to circle the globe.

The Obama administration is preparing for a space tourism industry that is expected to be worth $1 billion in 10 years, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office said on Tuesday.

International Business Machines launched on Tuesday three services to help companies sift and understand so-called big data, hoping to get some of the $120 billion or more that businesses are expected to invest in data analytics by 2015.

Seagate has become the first hard drive manufacturer to pack 1 terabit - one trillion bits - into a single square inch, a remarkable milestone that will lead to hard drives as large as 60TB within the next decade.

While even the most high-end smartphones available today cannot alert owners about an incoming call, text or other notifications without a loud ring or vibrations that may go unnoticed, Nokia has come up with a brilliant idea. Unwired View has discovered a patent application Nokia filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a magnetic tattoo that would alert smartphone owners when their phone rings or a text or other notification arrive.

Many people ignore their spam folders and delete whatever is in there without even looking. Others, on the other hand, check their spam before deleting it forever. In some cases, even relevant emails get doomed to cyber hell every now and then, so checking the spam folder before clearing it out may not be such a bad idea. In this regard, Gmail has come to our assistance by explaining why it thinks some emails should be deemed spam.

Beats Electronics, majority-owned by HTC, is close to acquiring digital music subscription service MOG for an undisclosed sum, according to an anonymous source familiar with the matter.

Sprint could be welcoming two new smartphones to its lineup April 15, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper, according to tech Web site S4GRU. Sprint has a press conference lined up for April 5 with HTC, and they could make a joint announcement about a new EVO phone.

A group of foreign shareholders in scandal-hit Olympus Corp, including Southeastern Asset Management and Indus Capital, on Wednesday blasted the company's choice of chairman and renewed their call for someone more independent.

Cyanogenmod 7.2, the latest version is finally out. It is now available for seventy devices. It is based on the open source code of Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread.

The Google Play has around 450,000 apps and still counting. Among them, the gaming apps are really awesome. Recently, Google Play introduced Diablo 3 Handbook, which includes class overviews, skill calculator, items, artisans and more. Google Play boasts of exciting games, which could entice the user to instantly grab the apps.

Could 2012 be the year the Apple iPhone finally gets some serous and real competition from its competitors? It's looking that way with all the chit chatter about the Samsung Galaxy S3. The previous devices sold well, even better when you consider the Galaxy S2. However, it still wasn't enough to be compared with the sales of the less powerful Apple iPhone 4S. The Galaxy S3 is expected to launch this year, and Android fans are betting that Samsung could churn out its most successful Galaxy ...

Apple introduced iPhone 4S in October 2011 and the device turned out to be an amazing device thanks to Siri, Retina display and an 8 megapixel iSight camera.

Spansion Inc and Nuance Communications Inc are offering car makers an improved speech-recognition technology based on their software and semiconductors, the head of Spansion told Reuters.

Hewlett Packard Co CEO Meg Whitman plans to combine the computing giant's PC and printing divisions in a major internal overhaul intended to spur combined sales of hardware to customers, two sources familiar with the move told Reuters.

Apple Inc's new iPad throws off a lot more heat than the previous version, lending weight to complaints on Internet forums that the hot-selling tablet computer could get uncomfortably warm after heavy use, an influential consumer watchdog found after running tests.

A new report says Sprint will release the HTC One X on June 10. We've already heard the Galaxy Nexus will be arriving on the Sprint network, and the same report says it will debut April 15, according to the S4GRU Web site. The One X is codenamed the Jet, but could debut as the next offering in Sprint's EVO lineup. It's been just about two years since the EVO went live as Sprint's original so-called 4G phone.

French conglomerate Alstom is building a wind farm prototype along the country's Atlantic coast, and the 100 meters-tall turbine tower uses 75 meters-long wind blades, the largest in the world. The turbine is meant to be used above the ocean's surface, so the engineering and manufacturing have to be precise to withstand the harsh weather and wet conditions. An offshore location for a wind farm is seen as a much better place because of the consistency and strength of the wind.

Apple continues to dominate tablet market with its new iPad. Windows tablets are a few months away. At the moment when looking for some serious competition against the new iPad, Asus Transformer Prime is the first name that comes to mind.

Best Buy is offering the Acer Iconia Tab A100 for $260 and free shipping while the Nook Color price has dropped to $170. Could one of these be the best under $300 tablets? Obviously, we're leaving out the Nook Tablet and Amazon Kindle Fire, but the Acer A100 and Nook Color are on opposite sides of those devices, price-wise. So, looking at these two seven-inch tablets could give a bit more perspective on what's the right choice for tablets in this price range.

With the help of programmers worldwide, Kaspersky researchers were finally able to identify the Duqu Trojan's mystery code. Part of the malware was created with a little used programming language, which prompts researchers to believe it may have been written by experienced, old-school programmers. The Duqu Trojan is an espionage tool that drew lots of attention last year because it has many Stuxnet-like features.

According to a new Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Microsoft plans to wrap up its Windows 8 this summer, just in time for PCs and tablets with the new OS to go on sale around October. The sources wished to remain unnamed due to confidentiality issues.

Back in 1998, NetZero was the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) to offer free dial-up Internet access. More than a decade later, the ISP is doing the same thing, but with today's access technology - mobile broadband. On Monday, March 19, NetZero announced its plans to become a virtual 4G service provider by reselling Clearwire's WiMAX bandwidth.

Apple reported 3 million iPads sold since the new-generation tablet went on sale on March 16, marking the strongest launch yet for an iPad. During a conference call on March 19, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new iPad has sold in record numbers.

We’re sure you have heard of the rumored Google Nexus Tablet being built by Asus. This little wonder tablet is expected to come with a 7-inch display, similar to that of the Amazon Kindle Fire, which is the most successful Android tablet, but it isn’t recognized by Google, as Amazon is using Google’s own OS to compete with it. If the Google Nexus 7-inch tablet is real, would it compete with the new iPad, or the Amazon Kindle Fire? We think it’s the latter of the two.

Overheating isn’t new to the Apple iPad, previous versions always seem to have the problem but it wasn’t much of a factor to consider much, well, until now. No doubt the new iPad is hot - it’s so hot that the Apple sold 3 million of these little beauties during the debut weekend worldwide. How exciting. However, the new iPad is now heating up in more ways than one and Apple fans aren’t too happy about it.

When you go out to buy the new iPad, one thing you would realize is the fact that it is not cheap to purchase, especially the 64GB version. But what if you knew the amount Apple actually spends to produce each new iPad? You would be surprised by the price difference, and you may feel that Apple is fleecing you when you get to know how much profit Apple is actually making from each new iPad sold.

Renowned gadget geeks from the iFixit tech blog have completed another Apple gear teardown with their un-building of the new iPad 3. Using the most exacting tools and an eye for gadget guts, iFixit try to give readers a chance to peek inside the iPad and see just what all the fuss is about.