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It's no shock that people love to hate Facebook. […]

Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share. […]

It's 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning and there’s just been what is truly a heart-stopping moment in the launch business -- a last-second launch abort. […]

The Falcon 9 rocket ran into a technical issue that aborted the launch just as the engines ignited. […]

The wireless phone company says that it will share details of their data plans well in advance of any introductions. […]

JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) -- Leaders of eight of the world’s largest economies are meeting at Camp David Friday evening for the G-8 Summit, marking the biggest gathering of heads of state at the president’s country retreat in history.The rustic estate in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains, however, presents something of a logistical challenge for th […]

TOBY MELVILLE/AFP/Getty Images/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BELFAST) -- Six alleged members of a dissident Irish Republican network have been arrested on terrorism charges in Northern Ireland since last Saturday in a joint operation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5, the U.K.'s Security Service. Though dissident Republican groups are often cha […]

Wikimedia Foundation(MONMOUTH, Wales) -- The world’s first “Wikipedia town” will launch on Saturday in the small town of Monmouth in Wales.The town now has more than 1,000 ceramic plaques on every important building, school and on hundreds of shops. The plaques each have a unique QR bar code -- a square, black-and-white bar code that can be scanned with a sm […]