LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States, including Gillette, and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
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'Ring of Fire' eclipse visible from China to Texas
- May 17 2012
- Associated Press
100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option
- May 02 2012
- MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors.
Company seeking 3 more adult-themed Web domains
- April 12 2012
- Associated Press
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - The Florida company that brought the ".xxx" domain to the Internet has applied for three more adult-themed domains.
Weird and wacky: Inventors show devices in Geneva
- April 06 2011
- Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) - Inventors from 45 countries are laying out their weird and wacky wares at the world's biggest inventions fair in Geneva this week.
Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday
- May 04 2012
- MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The biggest and brightest full moon of the year will arrive Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
New media earns permanent gallery at Newseum in DC
- April 27 2012
- BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - New media and the stories shaped by online culture and social networks now have a place in the Newseum, a Washington museum devoted to the history of news.
Facebook to unveil new ad offerings
- February 29 2012
- Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook is set to unveil new, potentially lucrative advertising opportunities as a prelude to its initial public offering of stock. The idea is to lure big brands with the promise of effective, precisely targeted ads that reach the social network's nearly 850 million users.
NEW: Solar products testing labs opening in Conn., NC
- February 20 2011
- Associated Press
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - A university in Connecticut and one in North Carolina are getting a chance to play a key role in the growth of "green" technology.
Space shuttle Enterprise arrives at NY's JFK
- April 27 2012
- DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - An unusual flying object has landed at New York's Kennedy Airport.
Where's a Yellowstone bear? Look on your phone
- April 18 2012
- Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Pretty soon, the best place to be on the lookout for a wolf, grizzly bear or other wildlife in Yellowstone National Park could be your phone.
US Rolls out plan to protect business websites
- June 28 2011
- Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Businesses facing a growing threat of cyberattacks against their websites will now have more tools to protect themselves and harden their Internet sites against hackers.
IBM to apply "Watson" Analytics Technology to healthcare
- February 17 2011
- administrator
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.
Space shuttle Enterprise to arrive in NY on Friday
- April 27 2012
- DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... space shuttle?
5 more minutes? New clock answers resounding 'no'
- April 10 2012
- TED SHAFFREY, Associated Press
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) - It could be the world's most exasperating alarm clock.
Boston Scientific Receives Exclusive Expanded Indication For Its CRT-Ds
- February 06 2011
- administrator
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded indication for its cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including the COGNIS® CRT-D.
Space shuttle Discovery lands at new home near DC
- April 17 2012
- SETH BORENSTEIN and BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery has landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, where its wheels will stop for the last time at the Smithsonian.
Facebook buying photo-share app Instagram for $1B
- April 09 2012
- Associated Press
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) - Facebook says it will spend $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing software company Instagram.
Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do?
- February 17 2011
- Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) - Watson got its start in Jeopardy but the hope is it can be used someday to keep people out of it.
Space shuttle Discovery ready for voyage to museum
- April 16 2012
- MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete.
Survey ranks Google highly despite privacy fears
- March 09 2012
- MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google is almost everyone's favorite search engine, despite misgivings about data-collection and advertising practices that are widely seen as intrusive.
NASA launches suborbital rockets from Virginia
- March 27 2012
- Associated Press
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - After several delays, NASA has launched five rockets from Virginia that are part of a study of the jet stream.

















