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Facebook Revamps Homepage, News Feed

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Facebook on Friday again revamped its homepage, getting rid of its "Highlights" section and instead creating separate tabs for the news feed and real-time events.

When users sign into their accounts, they can select to view either the "News feed" tab or the "Live Feed" tab. The news feed will feature items Facebook believes are of most value to you, while the live feed will list everything that is going on with your friends.

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Can Windows 7 'Reset' Microsoft Shares Higher?

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A well-received debut for its newest operating system and fresh signs that businesses again want to spend on computers gave Microsoft investors reason to hope a more than yearlong sales decline is coming to an end. But it may take big spending by consumers to pop Microsoft stock out of its tight trading range.

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What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection

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For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured — as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.

Was the wunderkind composer poisoned by a jealous rival? Did he have an intestinal parasite from an undercooked pork chop? Could he have accidentally poisoned himself with mercury used to treat a bout of syphilis?

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Canadian Astronaut Says it Appears Earth's Ice Caps Have Melted

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A Canadian astronaut on a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station says it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago, Reuters has reported.

Bob Thirsk said that there is a "thin veil of atmosphere" around the Earth that keeps us alive — but there are some effects of the human destruction of the Earth as well.

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How robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare

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Barely an hour's drive from the casinos of Las Vegas, a group of unassuming buildings have become as important as the trenches were to WWI. The big difference? Today's warriors are fighting without getting in harm's way, using drones to attack targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Major Morgan Andrews is one such combatant. He kisses his wife goodbye, drives to Creech,

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Google Announces Plans for PC Operating System

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Google announced plans late Tuesday night to develop operating software for personal computers, initially the downsized PCs called Netbooks. An outgrowth of the Internet search giant’s Chrome Web browser, Chrome OS is also Google’s most direct challenge yet to Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the PC world. Chrome OS is expected to be available in the second half of next year.

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Sony Takes First Step Into the Netbook Market

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Sony will begin selling its first netbook computer next month and in doing so enter the only sector of the PC market showing significant growth.

The Vaio W is based around a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 processor, the same processor used in many other netbooks.

Like other netbooks the Vaio W has a 10-inch screen, but its display has a resolution of 1,366 by 768 pixels rather than the more common 1,024 by 600 pixels.

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Nokia denies plans phone running Google's Android

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The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Monday it was not working on introducing a phone running on Google's (GOOG.O) Android operating system.

British daily The Guardian said on Monday the Finnish mobile phone maker was understood by industry insiders to be developing a smartphone that runs on Google's Android software, to be introduced in September.

"Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever," said a Nokia spokesman.

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Hybrids boost Toyota and Honda car sales

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Toyota Motor Corp's Prius hybrid was Japan's best-selling car in June while Honda Motor Co's rival Insight ranked fourth, helping the two hybrid leaders dominate the list of top-selling models.

Sales of the Prius, which was remodeled in mid-May, jumped 258 percent to 22,292 units from the year-earlier month, data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association showed.

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The iPhone 3GS: Should You Get It?

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I’ve had the new iPhone 3GS for a little over a week now. Using it day-to-day over the course of that time, I have a pretty good feel for it. A good enough feel to answer the question that every single person seems to be asking: “Should I get it?”

The answer to that is not so simple. And so I’m going to break it down a bunch of different ways based mainly on the device’s functionality and who I think is considering buying it.

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