Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
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A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday. Expectant father Randolph Bresnik and Michael...
Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
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Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online _ stoking debate over whether some scientists have...
Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang
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Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. When the machine is fully...
Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
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Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however,...
Bangladeshi mom wants twins to stay in Australia
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The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia. "My babies are alive and...
Report: Bangladeshi mom doesn't want twins back
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The mother of recently separated conjoined Bangladeshi twins does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new lives in Australia, newspapers reported Saturday. The twins, who...
Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth
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Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word Friday on the birth of a crewman's daughter as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk. Astronaut Randolph Bresnik...
Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier
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Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday. Scientists...
Flurry of IPOs signals IPO rebound to continue
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The flurry of initial public offerings this week is confirmation that this fall's rebound in the market wasn't a fluke and sets the stage for more companies to raise money through IPOs in 2010. But the response to two...
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle
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A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival...
Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency
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A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built? Curiosity about the complexity of the reusable spacecraft inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A...
Microsoft offers about 24K training vouchers in NC
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Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force. Gov. Beverly Perdue and the software giant...
Dell's profit, stock drop on weak quarterly report
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Some of the computer industry's biggest players _ such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. _ have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits. Dell Inc. didn't join them Thursday. The...
Library group offers text search to 4.6M books
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A group of major national research libraries says users now can search the full text of 1.6 billion pages from 4.6 million digitized volumes. Last year, the University of Michigan and 24 other research libraries...
Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty
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Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday. Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said...
Astronauts get extra moving time at space station
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The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time. Space shuttle Atlantis has been declared free of any worrisome launch damage. That means the crewmen won't need to conduct another...
Dell's profit, stock drop on weak quarterly report
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Some of the computer-industry's biggest players _ such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. _ have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits. Dell Inc. didn't join them Thursday. The...
Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger
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President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the...
Formerly conjoined twins to need years of care
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Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week in a marathon surgery will remain in the care of a humanitarian group for at least two years, the organization's CEO said Friday. The Children First Foundation,...
EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion
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EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service. Last week, the online auction site settled a legal skirmish with co-founders...
On the Call: Dell's CEO Michael Dell
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A key element of Dell Inc.'s turnaround strategy has been a vow not to cut prices as aggressively as rivals just to keep market share. The tactic has allowed competitors such as Acer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to...
Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays
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Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster. Google set the late 2010 target...
Shareholders OK DirecTV spinoff but sale uncertain
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Shareholders approved the formation of a new company out of DirecTV Group Inc. and some of Liberty Media Corp.'s entertainment businesses, as the chairman of both firms dampened speculation about a sale to a big phone...
3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found
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A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs _ like wild boar tusks _ roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away...
Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search
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Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find...
Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos
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Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site. The new service, being launched this week, is...
Correction: Vaccine Revolution story
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In a Nov. 18 story about the vaccine industry, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a government official quoted in the story. The director of the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority...
John Malone: Comcast-NBC would have too much power
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Media mogul John Malone said Thursday that Comcast Corp.'s plan to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal would give it too much market power and force competitors to consider similar acquisitions. Comcast Corp. _...
1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery
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A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said. Trishna is already...
NetEase 3Q results miss estimates, shares fall
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Chinese online gaming company NetEase.com Inc. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit rose on higher revenue from online games. However, the results fell below analyst expectations, sending NetEase's American...
Semtech reports 3Q loss on acquisition charge
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Semiconductor maker Semtech Corp. on Wednesday reported a third-quarter loss due to a charge related to its acquisition of Sierra Monolithics Inc. For the fiscal quarter that ended Oct. 25, Semtech reported a...
Shuttle docks at space station, unloads parts
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Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday for a weeklong stay, and the astronauts quickly unloaded a huge platform full of spare parts needed to keep the outpost running for another...
Marvell names new board member
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Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. said Wednesday that it named Ta-lin Hsu to its board. Hsu is the founder and chairman of private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific. He is also on the board at Advanced...
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
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You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him. Mario, the...
Semtech to buy Sierra Monolithics for $180 million
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Semiconductor maker Semtech Corp. said Wednesday that it agreed to buy fellow chipmaker Sierra Monolithics Inc. for $180 million in cash. Semtech said that it will pay Sierra shareholders $180 million when the deal...
Correction: Verizon layoffs
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In a Nov. 17 story about job cuts at Verizon Communications Inc., The Associated Press, relying on a labor union report, erroneously reported that Verizon is laying off more than 1,000 employees in Washington, D.C.,...
DirecTV to appoint PepsiCo executive as CEO
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DirecTV Group Inc. chose the vice chairman of PepsiCo Inc. as its chief executive Wednesday, filling a vacuum created when its former chief left just as the nation's largest satellite TV provider was in the midst of a...
Facebook users can help Chase find small charities
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JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million. The idea is to get small, local charities on Chase's radar _ ones that don't have the operating budget to go around asking for grants...
Sony may not fill some e-reader orders by holidays
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Sony Corp. says some customers who pre-order its newest e-reader may not get the gadget in time for the holidays. The company said Wednesday it's trying to ship the $399 Reader Daily Edition for the holidays. But...
IBM signs $500M deal with UK agency
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IBM Corp. said Wednesday it signed a contract extension worth 300 million pounds ($500 million) with a British government agency that licenses drivers and registers their cars. IBM said the deal extends an existing...
NJ man sentenced in Scientology cyber attack
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A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008. At a hearing Wednesday in Newark 19-year-old Dmitriy Guzner (duh-MEET'-tree...
Review: $100 Palm Pixi is stylish but sluggish
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Palm Inc. is fighting harder than ever to snag a chunk of the smart phone market, and just six months after releasing the stylish Pre it's back with a lighter, more petite and affordable version called the Pixi. It's...
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 friend Facebook
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Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook as both systems integrate the social network this week. Microsoft Corp. switched on a slew of new features...
UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests
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A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday. Scotland Yard's electronic crimes unit said a man...
China to participate in giant Hawaii telescope
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Chinese astronomers have signed on to participate in the development of the world's largest telescope that will be built atop a Hawaii volcano, a group said Tuesday. The Thirty Meter Telescope, the group spearheading...
Senators blast Web sites for scamming shoppers
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With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are tricking consumers into signing up for subscription...
Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China
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A Beijing court has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Windows operating system in China in a licensing dispute with a local supplier. The order Monday said Microsoft exceeded its rights under...
House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software
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Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet file-sharing...
UN: Fight climate change with free condoms
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The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. The agency did...
Rare crocs found hiding in plain sight in Cambodia
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Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight _ at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia. DNA taken from 69...