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Facebook's stock is once again declining after its huge but rocky initial public offering.Shares of Facebook Inc. dropped 96 cents, or 3.4 percent, to $27.24 in midday trading Thursday. The stock... more

In some versions of a May 30 story about an underground lab opening in Lead, S.D., The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a scientist who attended the opening. His name is Tom Shutt, not... more

The SpaceX Dragon supply ship returned to Earth on Thursday, ending its revolutionary nine-day voyage to the International Space Station with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Pacific.The... more

Leap Wireless International Inc., the parent of the Cricket cellphone service, on Thursday said it will be the first mainland U.S. phone company to sell the iPhone on a prepaid, no-contract... more

Chinese regulators have approved Apple's iPad 3, possibly moving the company closer to launching the latest version of its tablet in the fast-growing Chinese market.The Chinese government's... more

The epic fantasy genre has matured in the last decade, thanks to writers like "Game of Thrones" mastermind George R.R. Martin who are less interested in the eternal conflict between good and evil... more

A virtual stroll among the ruins of Pompeii or into the temples of Kyoto is available to anyone with an Internet-connected device through Google's new World Wonders project.The Mountain View,... more

Mitt Romney says he believes in America. For a while, his campaign's new app touted "A Better Amercia."Ooops. That typo distracted from the rollout Tuesday of a Romney campaign app designed to run... more

Phone and Internet provider Windstream Corp. says it will cut up to 400 management positions as it restructures the company.Windstream was formed in 2006 when it was spun off from Alltel Corp. Its... more

Seven scientists won prizes Thursday for discoveries that involve the furthest reaches of the solar system, vanishingly tiny materials and the complexities of the brain. One finding helped end... more

The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring... more

Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple's market... more

Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the... more

Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free... more

Google is adding a new entree to its menu: free restaurant ratings from the Zagat review service.Zagat, which Google bought in September, was charging $25 annually or $5 monthly for online access... more

FREE INSIGHTS: Google is dropping the online fees charged by Zagat's popular service for rating restaurants in more than 100 cities throughout the world. The changes announced Wednesday came as... more

News Corp.'s Fox and other broadcasters went to court on Wednesday to try to pull the plug on a startup that takes live TV programming and sends it to mobile devices in New York for a monthly... more

Hewlett-Packard Co. has promoted Bill Veghte to chief operating officer, the latest expansion of his responsibilities since the slumping technology company hired Meg Whitman as its CEO eight... more

After a brief reprieve in morning trading, Facebook's stock once again closed lower on Wednesday, nearly $10 below its initial public offering price.Shares of Facebook Inc. dropped 65 cents, or... more

Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.The company said Wednesday its spaceship builder partner has been granted an... more

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima, Japan, last year wreaked havoc in the skies above as well, disturbing electrons in the upper atmosphere, NASA... more

Facebook Inc. began trading publicly this month following one of the most anticipated stock offerings in history. The initial public offering of stock priced at $38, at the top of a projected... more

The summer travel season has arrived, and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip.For a Memorial Day weekend trip to Arizona, I checked four free services that provide driving... more

At Rovio, the future is Angry.The Finnish gaming company behind Angry Birds _ with more than 1 billion downloads to date _ is now spreading its wings beyond the virtual world.It has already... more

An unmanned U.S. Air Force spaceplane that has been in orbit for over a year is coming back to Earth.The Pentagon's experimental craft, which resembles a mini space shuttle, is slated to land at... more