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Scientists have discovered a new mineral inside a meteorite originally recovered in 1969.

A few weeks ago Lady Gaga released a harmonica-infused version of her top hit Born This Way on her Twitter account. Now, Lady Gaga has released the track for sale and will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sales to charity.

FOMC Meeting Minutes March 2011

NGP, the successor to Sony's PlayStation portable, is planned for a late 2011 release - but delays may force Sony to push the device's release into 2012.

Theories abound as to what Apple is packing into its next generation smartphone and more importantly, when will it come out. Some of these theories make sense, but some are completely off the wall.

Barclays Capital said it has received many questions over the past week around thoughts on the potential timing of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5. In summary, Reitzes believes it may make sense for Apple to launch this version of the iPhone a little later than usual for five reasons.

Apple's iPad 2 could face some production issues due to shortage of touch screens as some of the producers of those distinct screens were hurt by the Japan earthquake

Japanese authorities are reporting high levels of cesium in fish off the coast of Ibaraki, about 80 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

I have noticed that the vast majority of people protesting in the streets of these strife-torn countries in the Arab world appear to be well-fed, well-clothed, with many carrying cell phones, riding on motorbikes, driving cars, etc.

Texas Instruments agreed to buy National Semiconductor, a deal that combines two industry leaders in analog semiconductors.

Google has a crisis response team working round the clock monitoring the emergencies and coming out with unique applications to cater the affected people anywhere in the world. Person finder was launched within 72 hours of earthquake hitting Haiti. For New Zealand it didn’t take more than three hours, and for Japan, it was just two hours.

U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out small gains Monday in the lightest trading volume all year, but other major indexes finished flat as the technology sector sagged.

U.S. stocks ended mixed on Monday as gains from materials and health care sector shares were offset by declines from technology and financials.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.3 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.8 percent at 3:52 a.m. EDT.

The manufacturing slump in March confirms that Japan's economy contracted for a second successive quarter in the first three months of the year, and will mark outright decline in 2011, an analyst has said.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.3 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.8 percent at 3:52 a.m. EDT.

Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion; the latter's stock soars in after-hours trading.

A company that supplies radiation safety and protection personnel to the nuclear power industry, is looking for people to go to Japan who might want to work in the Fukushima reactor complex.

Here is the latest IAEA update on nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant

Oil rose to 2-1/2-year highs on Monday, with Brent crude pushing above $120 a barrel on geopolitical risks to supply along with expectations of growing demand after last week's supportive U.S. economic data.

A nascent recovery in global dealmaking, focused on safer deals with clear strategic logic, probably marks the start of several years of rising mergers and acquisitions, senior bankers told the Reuters Global M&A Summit.