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ABC News: Technology
With Reporting By ABC News’ Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan: Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who transformed personal computing, communications and other fields with such products as the iPhone and iPad, also had a 191-page FBI file that detailed a federal background check, a bomb...
The Tesla Model X, the first all-electric SUV or crossover vehicle, is shown off with gull-wing doors and promised for sale in 2014. The firm is headed by Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal and later SpaceX.
Safer Alternative? New Technology Allows Drivers to Check Tweets and MoreFri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:00 -0500
From checking tweets to purchasing concert tickets, automakers say they are providing a safer alternative to what drivers are already doing in their cars – even though critics warn the move just adds to the distracted-driving epidemic. Ford Motor Co.’s Sync uses voice commands to...
Online feud turns deadly in rural Tennessee.
Every pet owner is familiar with the roller coaster of emotions that follows every time you find your pet has ruined something you love. Similar to the five stages of grief, first comes denial. Then the anger. Disbelief. Maybe followed by a chuckle, but almost also ending...
On February 13th, Zumba fitness dancing returns to XBox Kinect with Zumba Rush, bringing with it the craze that launched classes, clothing lines and yes, even conventions all over the world.
Sh*t My Pets Ruined
Those cooler-than-normal tropical Pacific ocean temperatures known as La Niña are expected to weaken and dissipate this spring, government forecasters said today. La Niña—or lack of it— could mean good news when it comes to the upcoming hurricane season, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Protesters rallied at the Apple store in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning to deliver roughly 250,000 signatures in a demonstration calling for an end to what they call unethical manufacturing practices at the tech giant’s factories in China. The protest was one of six...
Felix Baumgartner plans to cheat death. He and a team plan a parachute jump from a balloon 23 miles over Roswell, New Mexico -- a supersonic fall from the edge of space.
Felix Baumgartner, record-setting skydiver, plans to jump from a helium balloon 23 miles over Roswell, New Mexico. If he succeeds, it would be a new record, and he would be the first person ever to fall at supersonic speed.
Neil Baumgartner hopes to break record by falling 23 miles back to Earth.
After two decades of drilling, Russian crews reach Antarctica's Lake Vostoc.
Backup copies remain on CDN servers and can be seen with a direct link.
Okla. State Rep. Will Fourkiller's tax would fund anti-obesity campaign.
Scientists spot planet in the "habitable zone" around its star.
Action Pad commercial shows Jobs' lookalike with angel's halo and wings.
Police dash-cam captured the bright light that was seen as far as Kansas.
Disc-shaped object resembles Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars.'
Free software lets users know which people ditched them on Facebook.
David Muir gives a little insight into what creates those amazing auroras.
The Internet giant is expected to file the required paperwork to go public.
Volcano in Hawaii is most active in the U.S.
Largest solar storm in nine years gives stargazers a treat in the skies.
Justice Department indicts two companies behind the file-sharing site.
Google and other sites protest anti-piracy laws with new look.
Analytical Graphics animation of Phobos-Grunt spacecraft falling from orbit.
Bill Weir puts protective iPad case to the test.
Walter Thompson re-enacts love story with stop-motion.
Samsung displays ultra thin TV sets with voice controls and a video camera.
A first look at Sony's upcoming 4g mobile device.
Stargazers see debris from extinct comet over the Northern Hemisphere.
Unauthorized Apple co-founder doll goes on sale in February.
The iPad 3 could be released in March.
Percy and Connie Emert from Jersey Shore, Pa., trapped a purple squirrel in their yard.
Anori, Knut's half-sibling born at German Zoo
Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
A star nursery, the aurora as seen from the International Space Station in orbit, a storm on Saturn as big as Earth, a spectacular solar flare, and images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope say they have found two planets orbiting a distant star -- and say the planets are the first ever that are the size of Earth or smaller. That could be critical in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Comet Lovejoy, plunging toward the sun as NASA spacecraft watched, was expected to be vaporized by the sun's heat. Instead it survived, missing the sun by less than 90,000 miles. It was observed this morning heading back into deep space.
American space flight over 50 years, from the selection of the first NASA astronauts to the final flight of the space shuttle.
Late January is always a dark time of year for NASA's astronaut program; the anniversaries of its three worst accidents all happen in the same week. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a cockpit fire on Jan. 27, 1967. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. And the space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth Feb. 1, 2003.
