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After a 16 day long odyssey, the space shuttle Endeavour finally returned back home as it safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida late Wednesday evening.

Microsoft has started cracking down on some of the serious offenders and hackers who tamper with their profiles by cheating on the online network for the popular gaming console Xbox 360.

Controversies continue to plague Apple’s products. After drawing criticism from Mozilla CEO, John Lilly about the way it was launched, the Safari 3.1 Web browser has received several complaints from Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system users.

Sequoia Voting Systems, the retailer company, whose e-voting machines had recently come under fire from election officials in New Jersey confirmed that its site had been hacked on Thursday.

You know those irritating small applications or games that come pre-installed whenever you buy a notebook or a PC, that’s what is known as “crapware” or “bloatware”. These “crapwares” slow down our new PC’s just so it can entice us into buying all kinds of new services or software programs.

John Lilly, the CEO of Mozilla Foundation which makes the Firefox internet browser criticized Apple's practice of offering iTunes and QuickTime users Safari 3.1 on Windows through the Apple Software Update pop-up, in a blog on Friday.

Google announced its Android smartphone operating system a while back and now there are rumors that Taiwanese handset maker HTC has an Android phone in the works.

A star which was about halfway across the universe from our Earth exploded with such an amazingly tremendous ferocity that the light from the explosion traversed over billions of light years to reach our planet with enough brightness that it could be have easily been seen by the naked eye.

Gibson Guitar Corp. has filed a case in federal district court in Nashville on Thursday claiming that, by developing, distributing and promoting the video game "Rock Band," Harmonix, MTV Networks and Electronic Arts are violating a virtual-reality patent the guitar maker holds.

Sony Corp. announced on Thursday that it is planning to update the Blu-ray technology in PlayStation 3 by adding interactive features to the movies played in the high-definition format.

Information collected by the Cassini spacecraft has reaffirmed beliefs that there might be an ocean of water beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan.

Legendary science fiction author, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke passed away early Wednesday at his home in Sri Lanka after suffering from some respiratory problems. He was 90.

After successfully tackling the power problem of the robot Dextre, astronauts of the space shuttle Endeavour, endeavored outside the international space station on Saturday to assemble the bulk of the gigantic “dexterous” machine.