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According to a study from the University of California at Berkeley, African-Americans are more willing than whites to date across racial lines on online dating sites.

While NASA's spacecraft Stardust is due for a special Valentine day rendezvous with comet Tempel 1, a report from NASA states that procreation in space may not be possible due to radiation.

A research study conducted by the University of Southern California has revealed that the emotional stress one suffers when their team loses could lead to cardiac death.

This year Valentine's Day is so special as NASA's Stardust spacecraft is preparing for final date with comet Tempel 1 on its second exploration. The world will be beginning to look at images when the spacecraft is on its closest approach to fly by comet Tempel 1 at about 11:37 pm EST on Monday, with confirmation likely to be received on Earth at about 11:56 pm EST.

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Suit filed by former NCAA player against California-based video games major Electronic Arts (EI) Inc. could have severe repercussions on the movie and media industries.

Larry Ellison, an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, has bought the 249-acre estate that once belonged to Yellowstone Club founders Tim and Edra Blixseth called Porcupine Creek in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc filed to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock, becoming the latest technology company to test the public markets. Pandora, which runs an online service that allows users to stream free music based on feedback from the listener, has 80 million registered users.

IBM's Watson computing system will take on two former Jeopardy! champions in the first man-machine match on the popular TV quiz show this February.

A Judge on Friday sentenced Ingmar Guandique, 29, the man convicted of killing former Washington intern Chandra Levy, to 60 years in prison.

President Barack Obama will make a trip to Oregon at the end next week and will visit an Intel manufacturing plant as well as discuss the company's programs related to science, engineering and math programs, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a press conference on Friday.

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would make Do Not Track a law.

The Watson project won't end with Jeopardy! next week as IBM will collaborate with several universities to expand it.

The former Governor of California tweeted Thursday that he plans on returning to Hollywood.

Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image revealing the different stages of development of stars, right from dusty little tots to young adults.

A NASA team has identified about 2,100 young star candidates in a region called the North American Nebula. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light.

A Federal court in California has denied Sony's motion to pull the personal information of Twitter and YouTube users who might have downloaded code that allows PlayStations to run with alternative operating systems.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported last night that Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) who recently vacated his job for a medical leave, was seen on the company’s campus recently and was “looking good.”

Applications for jobless benefits in the U.S. fell more than expected for the week ended Feb. 5, marking a drop for the second consecutive week.

Micro blogging giant Twitter is said to have held low level acquisition talks with Google Inc. and Facebook.