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Intel, which only last month released updated firmware to optimize the performance of its second-generation 34nm X-25M solid-state drives (SSDs), acknowledged on Friday an issue with the firmware, and promised a fix.

Look at a bottlenose dolphin and it looks like its grinning. Who would know that beneath that cute exterior could lie a maniacal killer of their relatives, harbor porpoises?

East Midlands Airport in the UK plans to introduce passenger buses powered by food waste as part of its bid to become 100% environmentally friendly.

End of the news as we know it? After Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reported loses of GBP2 billion in the year up until June, the billionaire has been looking to boost revenues, primarily though making users pay for content online - mainly, news.

On Monday, Nokia said it would recall and replace 14 million chargers made by China's BYD Co Ltd.

Sprint and its investor partners have agreed to invest another $1.5 billion in Clearwire, provider of WiMax services.

An image from Japan's Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer shows a giant space solar power system .

A number of iPhones in Australia have reportedly been infected by a worm that replaces the background wallpaper with an image of 80's pop icon Rick Astley.

Verizon isn't scared of AT&T and its lawsuit, apparently. AT&T has sued over Verizon's ads showing comparative maps of Verizon vs. AT&T 3G coverage, stating the maps were confusing, but that hasn't stopped Verizon from airing a whole new series of ads.

Jailbroken iPhone owners, you've already been warned this week with a different hack. This one uses the same "vulnerability" to "rickroll" the homescreen of jailbroken iPhones.

The Patrick administration is rethinking its support of wood-burning power plants, a key element of its long-term strategy to wean Massachusetts off fossil fuels.

China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government debts of some of the poorest of those countries, as the Asian powerhouse looked to deflect criticism that its investments in the continent were motivated purely by greed.

A photo simulation made as part of a South Carolina utility's research into wind power shows large wind turbines would barely be visible if built eight miles off the state's coast.

As death threats preceded the startup of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last year, one might not be surprised at foul play as testing is performed prior to the restart of the LHC. But fowl play?

A Canadian transmission company and an Irish wind developer said Friday they are teaming up to pursue a central Montana power project that could result in at least $1 billion worth of new wind energy in the Great Falls area.

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

It's the latest Verizon iPhone rumor, and we all know they will not stop until Apple's hit device arrives on the Verizon network (and we all know it will; the question is when). Most have assumed it would be when Verizon moves to next-generation LTE technology, but the latest rumor is, instead, that Apple will be producing a dual-mode world phone version of the iPhone.

A wind-power company says a western Maine site it's been looking at is too windy for turbines.

For some time it's been clear that eBay needed to dump Skype , the VoIP service for which it paid $2.75 billion in an acquisition that made no sense then and seemed even crazier as time went on.

It's the third day in a row that Google has celebrated the upcoming 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a different Google Doodle, but that's not what drew our attention to their home page. Google has always said it wants to keep their home page sparse, yet today, there was a rarity: an ad.