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IBM's Watson Supercomputer, after three days if competition against two of the most successful contestants in the long history of the TV Quiz Show 'Jeopardy!', completely crushed his counterparts. Bow before your mechanical overlords now.

Three Coronal Mass Ejections that were spawned by the recent X-Class solar flare are expected to impact Earth between February 16th-18th, which should provide some people with a heck of a light show.

The United States Department of Defense has pledged $500 Million to research new ways to defend themselves from cyber attacks.

What do you do when you have entirely too much time on your hands? You grab a hammer, a few nails and some wood and build a working model of M.C. Escher's "Waterfall."

Roxio's resident "Mighty Eagle," Peter Vesterbacka, has confirmed that 'Angry Birds' will be finding its way to more mobile platforms. In addition, Vesterbacka also let slip that a 3D version of the game is in the works.

A group of shareholders inside Nokia have given up their attempts to try and get themselves elected to the company's board of directors, where they would have done all they could to hinder Nokia's current partnership with Microsoft.

NASA and other scientists believe that they have found a new planet on the edge of the solar system, inside the Oort asteroid cloud.

Reports coming out of Taiwan are that Apple has shown interest in upgrading their next iPhone model to a 4-inch display.

The Sun has generated the first X-Class solar flare of Solar Cycle 24. While this will be an opportunity to test the radiation resistance of our satellites, for us on Earth it simply means that we could be treated to a showing of Northern Lights.

While humanity may strive to explore deep space, concerns about solar radiation may make it impossible for humans to explore beyond Mars.