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A ten-ton steel floodgate on River Mississippi at Morganza was opened, the first such eventuality in four decades, in a desperate effort to drain the swelling waters of the river.

Twitter has become garrulous with tweeters sharing news about Sony PlayStation Network waking up from forced slumber to enthral users in many parts of the world. A cascade of twitter messages said online games on PlayStation are accessible in the U.S. East Coast.

Ending ominous silence over the restoration of PS3 Network that had millions of users on tenterhooks, Sony said in an official blog on Saturday that it has started the phased restoration of the PlayStation services which have been down for more than three weeks after daring hacker attacks.

There is no word as yet on when Sony's PlayStation Network will be back online. Surprisingly, rumor mills too are silent about Sony's next move. There is talk however that fans experiencing withdrawal symptoms could look at alternatives. That means a hardware sale windfall for Xbox and Wii.

Superstitious Romans left the city in hordes on Wednesday fearing the ‘immortal city’ could be ground to dust, as if it were, by an earthquake predicted to hit on that day.

Sony's official PlayStaion website became inaccessible in Japan on Wednesday while the site was partially inaccessible in select regions in the U.S., triggering panic that another hacker attack had crippled the gaming giant again.

The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.

A U.S. senator who viewed Osama Bin Laden's death photos made available by the CIA confirmed that the images were of the terror master mind and that they were 'pretty gruesome'.

Muammar Gaddafi's compound in capital Tripoli was pummeled with rocket attacks on Thursday that killed at least two people, even as speculation is rife that NATO could be gunning for the besieged leader in a bid to end the war.

Osama bin Laden's fifth wife, Amal al-Sadah, reportedly made a suicide pledge for the sake of her terrorist husband and said she wanted to be martyred with him rather than leave him for safety.

Facebook on Wednesday trashed a stunning revelation made by security software firm a Symantec that third parties like advertisers had access to sensitive data of millions of Facebook users for years.

Google's announcement that it is entering the home automation segment and that it has started building hardware accessories that work on Android devices, has spawned key questions.

The CIA will allow select U.S. lawmakers see the grisly photos of the dead Bin Laden, in order to eliminate doubts over the killing of the terror mastermind.

Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy flew across the Grand Canyon on his custom-made jet suit, marking a watershed in man's ever-elusive dream of flying like birds.

Security software firm Symantec made a stunning revelation on Tuesday when they said third parties like advertisers had access to sensitive data of millions of Facebook users for years. It said Facebook, which was notified about this issue, has confirmed this leakage.

After keeping millions of PlayStation users on tenterhooks over the possible date of resumption of the gaming services, Sony issued another apology on Tuesday, and promised no new deadline for the restoration of the network.

Pakistan confirmed on Tuesday that the government will give permission to the U.S. to question the captured widows of Osama Bin Laden. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik also said Bin Laden's three wives and some children will be repatriated to their home countries after the U.S. interrogates them.

Apple is all set to restore an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera on the new version of its iPod Nano, if the leaked images published by a Taiwanese blog are authentic.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates jointly announced on Tuesday that the two companies have entered into a deal under which Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Apart from creating value and emerging as a strategically important player in the voice and chat connectivity segment of the exploding web business, Skype also won real big time suitors like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Perhaps the rivals' attempt to outbid each other and own Skype resulted in the Estoni...

Investors around the world, more so the Chinese, are buying up gold assets to cover against rising inflation risk, macroeconomic uncertainties, a possible currency doom and the ever worsening U.S. debt scenario. The gargantuan demand from China can cause the yellow metal's prices to skyrocket, analysts feel. If the Chinese buying trend is ably supplemented with a fall in the value of dollar, this could result in a skyrocketing of prices.

The Long Island beach from where the remains of ten murder victims have been discovered so far could have been used by as many as four serial killers, it has emerged.

Microsoft turned the tables on long-time Skype wooers Google and Facebook to reportedly land an $8.5 billion deal to buy the popular Voice over Internet Protocol service. The following are some key facts about Skype:

After strongly resisting the U.S. demand to give access to Osama Bin Laden's widows, Pakistan has probably veered round to yielding to the demand, Reuters has reported.

Sony said on Tuesday its PlayStation Network will come back to life by the end of this month, putting to rest swirling rumors about when the gaming giant will sort out is hacking threats and restore the 77-million-strong network, even as it still remained entangled in the crosshairs of digital security watchdogs.

Unlike what many around the world believed, Osama Bin Laden may not have been suffering from a chronic kidney ailment which required frequent dialysis. Instead, new evidence shows that the terror mastermind was in rather good health and was using herbal Viagra to boost his masculine health.

Iconic and enigmatic tech visionary Steve Jobs is also a ‘corporate dictator’ who hates excuses from his senior executives, doesn't take kindly to any flop whatsoever and considers failure as anathema, according to new revelations.

Probably the most expensive manhunt in history has ended with the U.S. Navy SEALs storming the hideout of terror ring leader Osama Bin Laden and killing him. But now a multi-million-dollar question remains. And that is essentially about the millions of dollars the U.S. government had promised to give to anyone who decisively helped find the fugitive.

The succession question at Apple has always been a trillion-dollar one, and markets have been on tenterhooks every time there was a new revelation -- truth or rumor -- about CEO Steve Jobs' health status. Now, there is somewhat conclusive evidence that the company is really looking up at the prospect of life without its iconic visionary leader. A Fortune magazine article written by Adam Lashinsky, excerpts of which have been published in various newspapers, says the company is offering traini...

The U.S. push to root out the Al-Qaeda network has led Pakistan to a corner, even as the focus is on how prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will handle the complex issue when he addresses the country on Monday, the first time since the May 2 killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Meanwhile, there have been numerous reports that Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the chief of the Inter Services intelligence (ISI), would have to resign following the killing of Bin Laden in Pakistan. Pasha had earned the ...