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Droid Razr Maxx vs Nokia Lumia 900: Smartphone Shootout

Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx goes on sale today on Verizon, but should you grab the new smartphone or wait a few more weeks for the Nokia Lumia 900? It depends if you are an AT&T or Verizon customer or if you're contract is already up from your current carrier.

Gingrich Calls for Moon Base, Space Contests

Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is silhouetted against the U.S. flag during his speech at a Space Coast meeting in Cocoa, Florida January 25, 2012.
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich called on Wednesday for a base on the moon and an expanded federal purse for prize money to stimulate private-sector space projects.

No iPad 3 at MacWorld/iWorld: Top Five New Apps from the Show

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Not only will there not be any iPad 3 announcements at the 2012 MacWorld/iWorld expo in San Francisco, Apple won't even be there at all. They abandoned the annual show long ago, so the show now features Apple accessories and apps. This year, however, the expo is bringing in more art exhibits and musical acts because, and let's be honest here, without Apple, the show just isn't as relevant. This isn't CES where every electronics maker in the world shows up to display their new gear.
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YouTube Celebrates 4 Billion Video Views Daily by Launching Special Fun Site

YouTube, the world's most popular online video-sharing site, is showing inexorable growth. Google announced that people watch 4 billion videos on YouTube per day. And every minute, 60 hours of videos are getting uploaded. To celebrate this achievement, YouTube has launched a special comic-cartoony site (http://www.onehourpersecond.com/) to show what one hour per second means in various situation.
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Why Steve Jobs Was Dead Wrong About an iPad Stylus

Steve Jobs said 'nobody wants a stylus' when he announced the iPhone back in 2007. Ever since then, most tablet makers have taken the idea of 'if it comes with a stylus you're doing it wrong' and run with it. Sure some of the slate style tablets sold to businesses included a stylus, but the most popular devices over the last few years have been of the decidedly non-stylus variety, including the iPad.

Facebook Timeline: Ten Best Apps for the New Timeline Feature

Facebook's new Timeline feature is about to become permanent for everybody's profile, so you might as well take advantage and try a couple of the the ten best apps for Timeline. The Timeline is Facebook's new way of letting you tell the story of your life. Anyone checking out your profile can see all of the things you've done in your Facebook life, and even back to the day you were born.
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Delta Diverts Polar Flights Due to Solar Storm

Delta Air Lines was diverting some flights on polar routes between Detroit and Asia to avoid disruptions to aircraft communications by a strong solar radiation storm, the airline said on Tuesday.
The Yahoo! Connected TV booth is shown during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2011.

New Yahoo CEO Says Company Needs to 'Do Better'

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson said reviving the company's flagging display advertising business was his highest priority, even as he crafts a broader plan to bring the struggling Internet company back to fighting form.
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iCloud Boasts of 85 Million Users

Only about three months after Apple launched its iCloud service, it already boasts of over 85 million users, the company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said during the Q1 2012 financial earning calls on Tuesday.

Google to Simplify its Privacy Policy, Consolidate TOS

The Internet search engine giant Google will update its privacy policy and terms of service (TOS), granting it explicit right to combine personal information across multiple products and services, the company announced, Tuesday, on its official blog.
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Apple Earnings Thrill Street: 73 Pct Sales Growth, Profit More Than Doubles

The magic of Steve Jobs may be absent in his successor Tim Cook but Cook's leadership is working well in Apple. On Tuesday, the tech giant has announced that its net profit has more than doubled to $13.06 billion in the fiscal first quarter. The Holiday sale of 37 million units of iPhone and 15.4 million units of iPad sale were seen as the biggest contribution towards the outstanding profit in the holiday quarter. No wonder, iPhone and iPad account for 72% of Apple's total revenue.
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Apple 13-Inch MacBook Air vs Toshiba 13-Inch Portege : Which is Better?

Apple's MacBook Air line of thin and light laptops has been a hit since it debuted, but put it up against any number of Windows machines, and one that stands out is the Toshiba Portege. Both are thin and powerful and costing far less than the $2000 for some full size power notebooks.
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Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak Used Nearly 1 Million Times in 3 Days

Just as iPhone 4S and iPad 2 posted record sales in their debut weekends, Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5 or 5.0.1 has become mega-popular - according to an iPhone Dev team blog post, at least 950,000 A5 untethered devices accessed Cydia app store between Friday and Monday afternoon, reflecting the pent-up demand for the A5 untethered jailbreak. The A5 jailbreak was released on Friday.
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Keeping Brain Sharp May Ward off Alzheimer's Protein

People who challenge their brains throughout their lifetimes -- through reading, writing and playing games -- are less likely to develop protein deposits in the brain linked with Alzheimer's, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, March 9, 2009.

First Patients Shown to Improve with Embryonic Stem Cells

Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.

Facebook Timeline Becomes Permanent: Five Things to Do First

Facebook's Timeline feature will become permanent for all users starting today. Facebook will start opening up the new profile today, and everyone will be updated to it automaically within a few weeks. Once your profile is updated, you have seven days to adjust your profile just how you want. Depending on how much info you put on your profile and how long you've been using Facebook could determine if you'll need that much time, but at the end of the seven days, the change is permanent.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an M8.7 class flare in a handout photo released by NASA January 23, 2012. The flare is shown here in teal as that is the color typically used to show light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, a wavelength in which it is

Sun Hurls Strong Geomagnetic Storm Toward Earth

The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field on Tuesday, and it could affect airline routes, power grids and satellites, the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center said.
Thorsten Heins poses for a portrait at the Research in Motion (RIM) company headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, January 22, 2012.

RIM's New Leader Raises Doubts among Investors

The new leader at Research In Motion on Monday dismissed talk of drastic change at the BlackBerry maker, a declaration seized on by impatient investors who say Thorsten Heins has only 12 to 18 months to turn RIM around.

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