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SpaceX

Commercial spaceship gets orbital test

  SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is going through orbital tests aimed at making sure the pioneering commercial spaceship can be brought in safely for a hookup with the International Space Station. Full story

Stuck ketchup problem solved by engineers
Sneezing monkey highlights new species
Octopuses foil predators by stealing IDs
First terrestrial animals shuffled onto land
Technology
Yahoo

Yahoo Axis 'search browser' makes surprise debut

Here’s some news you probably didn’t expect to read: Yahoo just released its own Web browser. Well, sorta. Full story

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Facebook

Stolen iPhone's adventures posted on Facebook -- starring thief

After her iPhone left her possession during a Disney cruise, a woman started noticing new photos being automatically uploaded to her iCloud account. So the woman did what any clever but irate person would do: Upload them to a Facebook gallery, accompanied by hilarious captions. Full story

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Future of Tech
Saxena Lab

Robot smart enough to clean your room (but not to have excuse to get out of it)

There’s a robot for just about every thankless household chore — one scoops poop, another folds towels, there’s even one that pours beer. Now, thankfully, there’s a robot that tidies up a messy room. Full story

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Click through the top 10 pictures of the 2011 Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition.

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Image: Winners of Nikon's Small World Photography contest 2011
Furcifer timoni, female
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White House: Apps for key government services coming within a year

With more of us relying on our phones and the hundreds of thousands of apps available to help manage our lives, the Obama administration Wednesday issued a directive to every federal agency to make "two key government services the American people depend on available on mobile phones within the next 12 months."


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