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200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico
An oil company exploration crew's chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists who say it's one of the most well-preserved old wrecks ever found in the Gulf.


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10 gadgets you’d be a fool to buy (right now)
They say patience is a virtue, but like temperance and chastity, it’s not much fun. Unfortunately, if you want to reach a state of true techstasy, you may need to repress your desire to buy a new gadget today and wait for the next version to come out.


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2-Minute expert: Can I get a smartphone without a contract?
Taxes, dental exams, cellphone contracts — things you hate but can't avoid. Actually, you can skip the last one. With prices on smartphones dropping and plenty of used smartphones for sale, BYOD — bring your own device — is now an option.


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Ancient turtle was as big as small car
A turtle the size of a small car once roamed what is now South America 60 million years ago, suggests its fossilized remains.


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SpaceX aborts launch to International Space Station after technical problems
A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.


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SpaceX rocket poised to make history with Saturday AM launch
A private spacecraft stands ready to launch on a historic first visit to the International Space Station early Saturday morning.


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Baby Boom: Instagram, OMGPOP, and the new dotcom millionaires
A new generation of super rich, super young tech entrepreneurs is upon us. And while some are barely old enough to rent a car, most could -- if they really wanted to -- buy a small island nation instead.


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Welsh village becomes world’s first Wikipedia town
The small town of Monmouth in Wales (population: 8,807, according to Wikipedia) will become the world’s first “Wikipedia town” on Saturday, May, 19, Monmouth county officials said on Thursday. Every person, place, and thing of interest in the town can now be scanned by a smartphone and looked up on Monmouthpedia.


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16th annual Webby Awards highlight apps, not just sites
The 16th Annual Webby Award winners have been released, honoring websites, interactive advertising, online film & video, as well as apps.


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Safe web browsing for kids
Summer's almost here and that means kids will have a lot of time on their hands to surf the Internet. So you may be concerned about what they'll be looking at online. Fortunately most web browsers like Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer have easy to use privacy settings.


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Apple on Siri complaints: Buy a different phone
Apple was sued in March by a New York man who alleges that Apple’s Siri commercials are misleading and deceptive. Apple’s recommendation to Fazio: buy a different phone.


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4,700 potentially dangerous asteroids lurk near Earth, NASA says
A new NASA survey has pinned down the number of asteroids that could pose a collision threat to Earth in what scientists say is the best estimate yet of the potentially dangerous space rocks.


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Zuckenomics: Facebook millionaires-to-be in all night 'hackathon'
Tech geeks across the Facebook empire celebrated the company’s IPO and their newfound millions by slugging back energy drinks at all-night code-writing parties.


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Solar eclipse on Sunday: How to see the sun's 'ring of fire'
Just two weeks after the huge "supermoon" wowed skywatchers around the world, the heavens will offer up another observing treat — a solar eclipse on May 20 that should be visible from much of western North America.


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What will commercial spaceflight cost?
NASA has given SpaceX $381 million to develop a private rocket to replace the space shuttle -- and that’s just the tip of the money iceberg. The space agency plans multiple future grants ranging up to half a billion in the next year and a half. Is the $4.9 billion program worth it?


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As Facebook grows, millions say 'no, thanks'
More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts.


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Facebook co-founder Saverin invests, while senators seek to ban him from US
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has closed a deal to invest in CrowdMob, an online discount start-up -- even as American politicians sought new rules to bar him (or anyone) from de-friending the United States in order to avoid taxes.


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Every black hole contains a new universe
Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.


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California woman apparently burned by pocket full of beach rocks
A woman suffered third-degree burns after what appeared to be the spontaneous combustion of rocks that had been scooped up from a Southern California beach, a fire official said.


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Who Will Build NASA's Space Taxis?
With the end of NASA's space shuttle program, the space agency will rely on others for travel to space. Here are the leading companies and their current generation space taxi systems.

