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Valentine's Night Comet Encounter

NASA Spacecraft Spots Its 'Valentine' Comet

This year Valentine's Day is so special as NASA's Stardust spacecraft is preparing for final date with comet Tempel 1 on its second exploration. The world will be beginning to look at images when the spacecraft is on its closest approach to fly by comet Tempel 1 at about 11:37 pm EST on Monday, with confirmation likely to be received on Earth at about 11:56 pm EST.
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison buys 249-acre Porcupine Creek

Larry Ellison, an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, has bought the 249-acre estate that once belonged to Yellowstone Club founders Tim and Edra Blixseth called Porcupine Creek in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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U.S. President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington February 10, 2011.

Obama to visit Intel in Oregon next week

President Barack Obama will make a trip to Oregon at the end next week and will visit an Intel manufacturing plant as well as discuss the company's programs related to science, engineering and math programs, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a press conference on Friday.
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World stored at least 295 exabytes of data as of 2007

Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.
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Orexigen cuts 40 pct staff to save cash

Orexigen Therapeutics Inc said it let go of about 40 percent of its workforce to save cash and focus resources on its experimental weight-loss drug. The drugmaker said it expects to take a charge of about $2.6 million on the job cuts, which comes on the heels of the U.S. health regulator denying approval for the drug, Contrave.
Kevin Butler Tweets Sony Jailbreak

Sony Employee Re-Tweets PS3 Hack

A Sony employee accidentally re-tweeted a code that allows users to get around the security on a Playstation 3 -- at the same time the company is suing a hacker for publicizing code with a similar function.

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