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Best reasons to switch to an iPhone 4S from Android smartphone

215 million years ago, a 100-foot long sea monster was believed to be ruler of the seas. On Monday, paleontologist Mark McMenamin of Mount Holyoke College claims he has discovered its lair in the Nevada desert.

All this week, BlackBerry owners in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India have been without service for the third day in a row. Today, there's news that it's spreading to North American users.

Popular shooter GoldenEye 007 returns on modern gaming console with incentives to pre-order.

Microsoft buys developer behind 'Splosion Man' and 'The Gunstringer.'

According to CNET, the two men caught for stealing and selling an iPhone 4 prototype will now be sentenced to a year of probation, a $500 fine, and 40 hours of community service. It took a year, but the lost prototype case has finally been settled.

Google+ traffic has plunged more than 60 percent after it went public on September 20, which makes everyone wonder whether the new-born social network has run out of breath already.

Apple rolled out its iOS 5 mobile operating system, one week after pancreatic cancer claimed the life of its former CEO and visionary Steve Jobs. The update adds voice recognition software called “Siri”, instant messaging and support for Apple’s iCloud service, although the inclusion of Siri is limited to the iPhone 4S. MacWorld’s Dan Moren says the free update is “ambitious” and that “there’s hardly a part of Apple’s mobile operating system that isn’t altered in some way”. Engadget’s Dante...

Research In Motion said on Wednesday it was working frantically to end a three-day global disruption of BlackBerry services that has frustrated millions of smartphone users and put more pressure on the company for sweeping changes.

Hollywood Exhales: BlackBerry Service Is Back

Next year, NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour will move from Los Angeles to retire at the California Science Center. At 122 feet, the Endeavour was built 20 years ago and is now the last shuttle to fly a mission into space.

The world's largest virus has been discovered off the coast of Las Cruces, Chile. Appropriately named Megavirus chilensis, it is about 10 to 20 times larger than the average virus and 6.5% bigger than its nearest competitor, the Mimivirus. The Megavirus measures about .7 micrometers (thousandths of a millimeter) in diameter and is an oddity among its virus brethren, which are usually smaller than bacteria.

Russian researchers recently claimed that they have found the indisputable proof of the existence of yeti, dubbed abominable snowman, in Siberia, because they discovered a few strands of hair and some tracks in the snow.

Zynga seeks to raise $1 billion in IPO and launch new gaming platform

Plagued by a second day of service outages spanning four continents, Research In Motion's (RIM) management is facing a precarious time in the days ahead. In early September, investor and merchant bank Jaguar Financial released a statement saying it was raising support amongst BlackBerry partners for the sale of a portion of the company or some other method of maximizing shareholder value.

Dawn spacecraft discovers huge mountain on asteroid.

Jobs let Time Editor Walter Isaacson write a biography of him and it looks like Hollywood is ready to commit before the book even comes out.

In the UK, a team of scientists have set out on an Antarctic expedition to get to the bottom of climate change mysteries. Quite literally, the group is planning to drill through three kilometers of Antarctic ice in order get samples from its lake.

Graphics cards help supercomputers perform more calculations while using less energy, an important step in speeding up the world's fastest machines.

This Tuesday night, the moon will turn full but it will be the smallest we've seen for the year. Last Saturday, we saw a large luminous moon during the International Observe the Moon Night, and now we'll see the opposite tonight.

The legendary tech genius Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5, leaving a great void in the world. It is Jobs who changed the way we think of the digital world, who changed the concept of mobile phone and tablet, and who revolutionized the technology industry. Here's a quick look at the most popular quotes by Steve Jobs. Perhaps, people might get inspired by the quotes and understand why Jobs and his Apple succeeded so well.

It's a good story - so good, in fact, that it's survived hundreds of years, passed down from the lips of ancient mariners to be incorporated into impressive CGI jet propane-fuelled blockbusters. The legend of the kraken - the terrifyingly huge, violently belligerent giant squid capable of snapping ships in twain with a snap of its tentacles - has endured and tickles our imagination even today. But what evidence is there for the murderous cephalopod?

Google, NASA, and countless international space agencies just launched what they are calling the YouTube Space Lab. The idea is to hold a video contest allowing students to submit experiment ideas they will consider performing on the International Space Station (ISS).

The huge sales numbers of Apple's iPhone 4S could get a tiny bump from people who want one to remember Steve Jobs by.

Scientists suspect giant Kraken-like Monster inhabited prehistoric seas.

iPhone 4S came out a little over a year after iPhone 4. Will you wait until nearly 2013 for iPhone 5?

Facebook is completely redesigning its layout, but online consternation grows due to privacy issues.

Facebook is completely redesigning its layout, but online consternation grows due to privacy issues.

Samsung and Google delayed the release of their new products following the death of Steve Jobs out of respect for the legendary man that changed the landscape of the technology world forever.