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An auto-corrected text message has resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man after what could be described as a "grave misunderstanding."

Numbers that have leaked out of Apple show that the Verizon-branded iPhone 4 sold just under 4,000 units in its first five days. While many outlets are saying that these figures are disappointing, it's far from the worst news in the world.

Researchers who spent time plotting the orbits of 40,000 M-Type Red Dwarf stars for the next billion years have discovered that there is an infinitely small chance that one of eighteen specific stars they tracked could one day pass dangerously close to Earth.

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.