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Space tourist Richard Garriott has arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day stay for which he paid the Russian government an estimated $30 million.

An U.S. spacecraft was scheduled to beam hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun.

A meteor, or shooting star, is usually the size of a pebble, or even a grain of sand, burning up in the atmosphere.

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A controversial technology is being adapted to help ferret out people and drugs crossing the U.S. border illegally.

Work stations with built-in treadmills and portable meeting rooms may become commonplace in the offices of the future. Workplace technology is changing dramatically, and our offices are finally set to catch up.

It is being billed as the ultimate book about the world and it is something of a landmark in its own right. "Earth" -- the biggest atlas ever to be published -- promises to be a luxurious benchmark in cartography.

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Barack Obama is not a Muslim, and John McCain did not tell the television show "60 Minutes" he was a war criminal who intentionally bombed women and children in Vietnam.

The secret weapon powering Stuart Skorman's new company is not computer technology. It's people.

It's going to get even more crowded out there on the Presidential campaign trail. I'm not just talking about what would happen if Fred Thompson or Michael Bloomberg declares he's in the race.

San Francisco (MarketWatch) -- The chief organizer of PodCampNYC.org knows the decision over the weekend to move the April 6th event to a midtown New York hotel is going to cause some criticism.

Rocketboom is searching for a new way to put fuel in its tank. Advertising is not doing it. "It's frustrating that we haven't worked it out by now," said the daily video blog's founder, Andrew Baron. (www.rocketboom.com)

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Forget asking search engines to take down the site for you. There's an easier way. Robots.txt is a file you can store on the root level of your web server to protect your personal files from showing up on search results. It allows you control over where bots are allowed to crawl your site.

The practice of placing RFID chips inside your physical ID credentials is becoming routine for everything from your gym to the federal government. Here's a way to protect yourself and your deets using only duct tape and some other cheap materials.

Security analysts and the Somali government publicly flirt with the idea of hiring mercenaries to stop the pirates that are terrorizing east Africa. Now, the notorious guns-for-fire at Blackwater respond to the call, with a resounding arrrr!!!!!

It's more than a concept — it's a running car. And we'll see it at the Los Angeles auto show.

Google posts sharp third-quarter ad growth in the face of a global financial crisis. Seems the economic downturn isn't catching up with the search giant yet.

Kevin Maney submits: No one can accuse Nokia (NOK) of being timid. The world's biggest cell phone maker got beaten up in the third quarter, seeing profit fall 30%. But the company says it took a short term punch for long term gain. While competitors were dropping prices to steal market share, Nokia. […]

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Compete submits: MP3 players will be on consumers’ shopping lists this holiday season, but can anyone compete with Apple’s family of iPods? There are many MP3 players on the market, but if any device could be a viable alternative to the iPod, the Zune seems to be a likely candidate. Free from th. […]

Zach Bass submits:Please note that I’m not asking if Apple (AAPL) will go lower. I’m asking how low you imagine Apple’s stock price could eventually get. Do you think we’ll reach last week’s low of $85, or will we shoot past $85? Perhaps you believe that we’ve already reached the bottom,. […]

FP Trading Desk submits: Regardless of the current market turmoil, Apple Inc. (AAPL), in it’s current incarnation, is here for the long haul, says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz in upgrading the stock to “overweight” from “neutral.”Mr. Moskowitz said in a research note to clients:Compl. […]