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'Ring of Fire' eclipse visible from China to Texas

Image Credit/NASALOS 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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100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option

FacebookATLANTA (AP) - An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors.

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Company seeking 3 more adult-themed Web domains

Stock PhotoPALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - The Florida company that brought the ".xxx" domain to the Internet has applied for three more adult-themed domains.

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Weird and wacky: Inventors show devices in Geneva

Stock PhotoGENEVA (AP) - Inventors from 45 countries are laying out their weird and wacky wares at the world's biggest inventions fair in Geneva this week.

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Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday

The Moon as pictured from the command module of Apollo 12.  Credit: NASA.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.

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New media earns permanent gallery at Newseum in DC

Stock PhotoWASHINGTON (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.

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Facebook to unveil new ad offerings

FacebookNEW 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.

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NEW: Solar products testing labs opening in Conn., NC

Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.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.

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Space shuttle Enterprise arrives at NY's JFK

Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen off in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York City.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)NEW YORK (AP) - An unusual flying object has landed at New York's Kennedy Airport.

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Where's a Yellowstone bear? Look on your phone

Grizzly Bear in a field at Yellowstone National Park.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo by Terry Tollefsbol.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.

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US Rolls out plan to protect business websites

Stock PhotoWASHINGTON (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.

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IBM to apply "Watson" Analytics Technology to healthcare

Watson, powered by IBM POWER7, is a work-load optimized system that can answer questions posed in natural language over a nearly unlimited range of knowledge.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.

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Space shuttle Enterprise to arrive in NY on Friday

The space shuttle Enterprise is seen mated on top of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at Washington Dulles International Airport on Friday. Enterprise was the first orbiter built for the Space Shuttle Program.  Photo Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsNEW YORK (AP) - Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... space shuttle?

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5 more minutes? New clock answers resounding 'no'

The Ramos alarm clock was invented by Paul Sammut of Sammut Tech, LLC.  The alarm can only be stopped by getting out of bed.HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) - It could be the world's most exasperating alarm clock.

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Boston Scientific Receives Exclusive Expanded Indication For Its CRT-Ds

Boston Scientific CorporationBoston 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.

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Space shuttle Discovery lands at new home near DC

Space shuttle Discovery at the Washington Dulles International Airport Tuesday.  Image Credit: NASA Television.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.

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Facebook buying photo-share app Instagram for $1B

FacebookMENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) - Facebook says it will spend $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing software company Instagram.

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Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do?

IBM's Watson computer system, powered by IBM POWER7, competes against Jeopardy!’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.UNDATED (AP) - Watson got its start in Jeopardy but the hope is it can be used someday to keep people out of it.

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Space shuttle Discovery ready for voyage to museum

Discovery at the launch pad before its final mission in February.  Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete.

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Survey ranks Google highly despite privacy fears

GoogleSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google is almost everyone's favorite search engine, despite misgivings about data-collection and advertising practices that are widely seen as intrusive.

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NASA launches suborbital rockets from Virginia

A sounding rocket launches on March 27, 2012 as part of the ATREX mission from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Credit: NASA.ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - After several delays, NASA has launched five rockets from Virginia that are part of a study of the jet stream.

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