ISS Expedition 35 crew lands safely in Kazakhstan

Expedition 35 Commander Kevin Chris Hadfield and Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko landed their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft in southern Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. EDT Monday.

Hyundai supersizes rooftop solar

Hyundai says the rooftop solar power system it will install at its Asan plant in South Korea, with a generating capacity of 10 megawatts, will be the largest in the country – and it’s right up there with the biggest single-site rooftop installations in the world.

Creep bugs woman with drone

In Capitol Hill Seattle's complaints blog, a woman has reported a stranger flying a drone near her house and refusing to leave. 

Samsung becomes the smartphone chieftain

Smartphone wars are becoming rather predictable. Every quarter sales notch up and every quarter Samsung emerges as the big winner. The last quarter was no exception. However, growth is slowing as the market matures, although there is still plenty of room for growth in emerging markets. 

Sharp sharpens up its act

Sharp has announced that it has made Kozo Takahashi its new president and CEO.

French to tax smartphones and tablets

The French government is seriously considering a new tax on smartphones and tablets. The one percent tax would be imposed on a range of “internet compatible devices” and it could yield about 86 million euro per year. 

Nintendo gets the chance to Wii

Nintendo has won a US appeals court decision in a patent case that will allow it to keep importing its Wii system into the United States.
Haswell die

Where there's an Intel Haswell there's a has way

Hot Hardware has spotted that Intel's new Haswell chip is going to be the first x86 CPU to have a on-die voltage regulator module, or VRM.
Founding father of Intel, Gordon Moore

Intel will win in foundry wars

Moore's Law is eventually going to crush Intel's opposition as companies are unable to pay the huge costs involved in R&D and new process gear.
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Linkedin acts against prostitutes

Professional social network LinkedIn recently announced a series of privacy policy changes, most of which are simplifications of existing policies, but one change isn’t.

Google ups the storage ante

Search engine Google has surprised observers by stepping up the size of its free cloud based storage offerings from five to 15GB.
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Sexting banned in West Virginia

The great state of West Virginia has come up with a new law that would drag teenagers to court for sexting each other. 

Justice Department excoriated for journalist snoop

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what amounts to the largest government press snooping exercise carried out in a western nation.

Could John Carpenter direct a Dead Space adaptation?

Horror has been a big part of gaming for a long time, going all the way back to the first  Texas Chainsaw video game.

Star Trek Into Darkness: Lens flare and merchandise madness

Star Trek Into Darkness, the long awaited follow up to JJ Abrams’s reinvention of the classic sci-fi franchise, will finally be here in IMAX on May 15, and everywhere else on May 16, a day earlier than the original release date.

S.H.I.E.L.D. gets a full series order, Defiance clinches a second season

Marvel mania is absolutely back, and bigger than ever. Iron Man 3 looks to be the biggest movie of the summer, if not the year, and with a number of TV shows getting the green light, renewed or cancelled this week, the upcoming Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series has won a full season order for ABC. 

Photonic quantum computing inches forward

The unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic acceleration of information processing compared to the fastest class of classical machines.

Astronauts repair International Space Station (ISS) leak

Over the weekend, the stalwart crew of the International Space Station (ISS) worked overtime to fix a leaking cooling network outside the orbital outpost.

Finless ROM goes live for MK908 Android PC-on-a-stick

One of the things about Android that really appeals to techies and mainstream users is the open-nature of Google's operating system and related devices, at least in certain instances. 

Claim: Vivante GC4000 rated top mobile GPU for floating-point accuracy

Typically, only hard-core geeks care about benchmarks when it comes to the hardware powering tablets and smartphones. And why not?