Stunning Red Aurora Captured Alex Cherney, a software developer and self-described hobbyist astronomer based near Melbourne, captured a series of stunning Aurora Australis over the Mornington peninsula in Australia. “It was my first visual aurora,” he told ABCNews.com. “I was surprised, myself, when I saw it. I didn’t think it would be...
  Photos: Anniversary of NASA's Worst Tragedies 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.
  Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned
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Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
How to keep Angry Birds downloads flowing? Add KISS
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Appolicious - Rovio Mobile has done a pretty impressive job of leveraging the runaway success of the game Angry Birds into a huge multimedia brand. But like Beanie Babies, Furbies and Tamagatchis before it, one figures that eventually, Angry Birds will lose steam and disappear into the annals of toy history. Watch: Megaupload: Web Site Hit by Feds Justice Department indicts two companies behind the file-sharing site.
  NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge
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Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?
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