'World's First Wikipedia Town' Goes Live The world’s first “Wikipedia town” will launch on Saturday in the small town of Monmouth in Wales. The town now has more than 1,000 ceramic plaques on every important building, school and on hundreds of shops. The plaques each have a unique QR bar code...
  Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
  See the First Trailer for the Next James Bond Movie, Skyfall [VIDEO] The first teaser trailer for the next James Bond movie, Skyfall, has been released. Gadgets: Illuminating Speaker Dock ABC News' gadget roundup this week features an illuminating speaker, carbon fiber ThinkPad ultrabook, and a new Sony camera. Click through for more exciting gadget picks this week.
  Pakistan briefly bans Twitter access for "blasphemy" ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan banned access to Twitter on Sunday because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said, but normal service was resumed after 12 hours. The government did not specify which users or messages had prompted the ban on the microblogging site or why it was allowed to operate again so quickly. Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by many Muslims, who make up the overwhelming majority in Pakistan. ... Watch: TechBytes: Wireless, Diablo 3 The top four wireless carriers are nearly tied in customer satisfaction ratings.
 
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