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Blackbeard's Booty on Display at NC Museum Fox News | AP AP Photo/NC Maritime Museum A model of Queen Annes Revenge sits at the NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort -- part of the largest exhibit from the wreck of whats believed to be the Queen Annes Revenge, the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard. ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

Age of 'Aquarius' dawns with launch Santa Maria Times A Delta 2 rocket carrying an international satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:20 am Friday. The launch of the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite is an international mission involving NASA and Argentina's space agency. ... See all stories on this topic »

Android Market Feature Lets Users See App-Device Support eWeek Google has added a feature to the Android Market Webstore that lets users see if an application they want to download will run on their Android smartphone or tablet. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has quietly added a feature to its Android Market Webstore that ... See all stories on this topic »

Has text messaging peaked? CNET by Don Reisinger Wireless carriers could face some serious trouble if emerging trends in text messaging continue, a new report from the Wall Street Journal contends. Citing a recent study from the CTIA, the Journal pointed out that 1 trillion text ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Australian Unveils Prototype Hoverbike Escapist Magazine Assuming it's legit, Chris Malloy's hoverbike may be the raddest invention since those sneakers that light up. First, it should be said that I'm not entirely convinced that this hoverbike isn't a hoax. I'm no aeronautics engineer so the concept of ... See all stories on this topic »

Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus New York Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER NEW HAVEN — When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film "The Social Network," and she began to imagine herself ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

UK to probe Facebook's facial recognition technology amid privacy concerns DailyIndia.com London, June 11: The world's leading social networking site 'Facebook' is poised to be probed by the British authorities after it was criticised for launching its facial recognition technology without giving any prior notice to its users. ... See all stories on this topic »

Tevatron's DZero Cannot Find New Particle Discovery News Earlier this week Discovery News reported that Fermilab's CDF collaboration had spotted a tiny "bump" in the data from Fermilab's CDF collaboration that seemed to indicate the presence of a new particle -- and instead of disappearing with subsequent ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg tells 8th graders 'there's no shortcuts to success' Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter The Social Network portrayed him as having few friends; and those he did, sued him. But during a commencement speech this week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly declared friendships are what make life so ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

BitTorrent Lawsuit Offers Comedy Relief PC Magazine The movie industry is suing nearly 50000 people for illegally downloading The Hurt Locker and The Expendables. What a laugh riot. By John C. Dvorak It appears as if 50000 BitTorrent users have been targeted for illegal movie downloads in what promises ... See all stories on this topic »

Video game industry struggles with change San Jose Mercury News By Troy Wolverton **COMMERCIAL IMAGE** In this photo taken by AP Images for Ubisoft, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot plays Just Dance 3 with Ubisoft employees at the Ubisoft booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) gaming convention on Thursday, ... See all stories on this topic »

Live MBTA Bus Updates Now on Google Maps Harvard Crimson By Xi Yu Google Maps has teamed up with public transit agencies in Boston and five other cities to provide live transit data with departure times and alerts, according to the Official Google Blog. The information is available on all Google Maps ... See all stories on this topic »

Report: cell phones, portable electronics causing interference on flights BGR A new study obtained by ABC News suggests that cell phones and other personal electronic devices might be causing electronic interference on airplanes. US airlines all require that passengers power off any and all electronic devices, many claiming that ... See all stories on this topic »

Tomm Hulett on Silent Hill Collection, Downpour, Book of Memories and Korn Joystiq by Richard Mitchell on Jun 10th 2011 10:00PM I managed to snatch a few minutes with Silent Hill series producer Tomm Hulett at E3 this year. The convention played host to an uncharacteristically large amount of Silent Hill news. ... See all stories on this topic »

Rushing to bury King Tut USA Today By Jonathan Lebowitz, USA TODAY King Tutankhamen, one of the youngest Pharaohs to ever rule Egypt, died at a much earlier age (around 19) than his forefathers. And while his cause of death is still up for debate, new evidence collected by the Getty ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

2011 Hyundai Elantra GLS CNET The good: The 2011 Hyundai Elantra's low-speed manners make it a great car for urban environments. For the 2011 model year, nearly the complete cabin tech package is available at the entry GLS level. The bad: We found it difficult to replicate the ... See all stories on this topic » CNET

Spellbinding-Long Total Lunar Eclipse Occurs Next Week Space.com by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist This month's full moon will pass almost directly through the center of Earth's shadow on Wednesday (June 15) in what will be an unusually long total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse will occur just two ... See all stories on this topic » Space.com

Latest Nook e-Reader Comes With Undocumented Web Browser Unwired View By JoannaM on 10 Jun 11 The iPad and Kindle might want to make some extra room for their little cousin, the Nook. Barnes and Noble's latest offering, the Nook Simple Touch Reader, has an undocumented "hidden" Web browser that allows users to access ... See all stories on this topic » Unwired View

Say goodbye to cool summers: climate study AFP PARIS — By 2050, the coolest summers in the tropics and parts of the northern hemisphere will still be hotter than the most scorching summers since the mid-20th century if global warming continues apace, according to a new study. ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Apple poised to build nearly 400K next-gen MacBook Airs this month Apple Insider By Kasper Jade and Neil Hughes The second-generation of Apple's revitalized MacBook Air notebooks are scheduled to enter mass production during the month of June, with an initial build volume hovering around 400000 units. ... See all stories on this topic »

HP threatens Oracle with legal action over Itanium ComputerWeekly.com HP has threatened to take legal action against Oracle if the enterprise software maker does not rescind a decision announced in March to end software development for HP's Itanium chip-based servers. HP builds Integrity servers with the Itanium chip, ... See all stories on this topic »

GM Prices 2012 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist at $29960 Nitrobahn General Motors has announced the pricing for 2012 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist. The vehicle that is expected to deliver 25% better highway fuel economy will bear a price tag of $29960. The American automaker noted that the LaCrosse with eAssist uses a ... See all stories on this topic » Nitrobahn

ESO Telescope Snaps 268-Megapixel Pic Of The Heavens Popular Photography Magazine By Tim Barribeau on June 10, 2011 It's been a particularly astronomical week over here at PopPhoto.com. First an image of the devastated wake of the Massachusetts tornado, and then the tale of Nikon gear left to become stardust. ... See all stories on this topic »

Ken Levine Explains Bioshock Infinite's Zippy Sky-Lines Escapist Magazine Wooden roller coasters and zip-lines combine for some fancy flying shootouts in Bioshock Infinite. The flying city of Columbia may be a technological marvel, but you need a way to get goods from Point A to Point B - and trucks aren't known for their ... See all stories on this topic »

Qualcomm to buy assets of Rapid Bridge SignOnSanDiego.com By Mike Freeman Qualcomm has reached an agreement acquire the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a privately held San Diego consulting firm for the semiconductor industry. The purchase price was not disclosed, and Qualcomm declined to provide further ... See all stories on this topic »

School District that Spied on Students and their Families Sued Again AllGov Yet another lawsuit has been filed against the Lower Merion School District for illegally spying on students by remotely activating webcams on school-issued laptops. About 1800 computers were issued to students without telling them that district ... See all stories on this topic » AllGov

'Anonymous' Warns NATO: 'This Is No Longer Your World' TIME By Graeme McMillan on June 10, 2011 NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it's actually a hydra). Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about "Anonymous"—the mysterious "hacktivist" group ... See all stories on this topic »

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