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The Space Shot
Shuttle Atlantis glides home after station visitThe shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth after an 11-day three-spacewalk mission to deliver 15 tons of equipment and spare parts to the International Space Station.
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Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
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Crave
Barnes & Noble Nook to hit stores later than expectedB&N says the company will have the e-readers in some stores on December 7, a week later than expected, because the company is prioritizing delivery to customers who preordered.
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Beyond Binary
Windows 8 in 2012?It's not clear what Microsoft's desktop plans are, but the Windows Server team included slides at PDC suggesting a new major release coming around 2012.
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Google Chrome OS demonstration
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Technically Incorrect
Droid does, iPhone doesn't: The porn app storeCompany called MiKandi launches what it claims is the world's first adult-only mobile app store. But while the apps work with Android phones, they won't with iPhones.
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Google Chrome OS unveiling
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Geek Gestalt
A wild ride on NASA's massive flight simulatorThe Vertical Motion Simulator trains all comers in capsule landings, helicopter flights, and even bobsled runs. Now it's helping in the design of next-gen lunar landers.
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Cutting Edge
CERN particle accelerator sees first collisionsFour days after its restart, the scientific work at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has headed "into new territory. It's been going quite remarkably fast."
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Motion simulator readies NASA for moon landing (photos)
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Technically Incorrect
A slightly unfortunate Twitter billboardA Twitter billboard for a TV station in Mobile, Ala., manages to marry an image of its three news anchors with the tweet: "3 accused of gang rape in Monroeville."
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Green Tech
Science untarnished by 'Climategate,' U.N. saysChair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says stolen e-mails do not damage the credibility of findings that humans are to blame for global warming.
