Google Graph Makes Search Smarter
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.

EU gives Google 'weeks' to ease antitrust concerns
The European Union said on Monday that Google Inc. must in "a matter of weeks" outline steps it is willing to take to ease concerns about alleged abuses of its dominant position in the online search market.

Annular Eclipse Makes 'Ring of Fire'
If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight likely seemed to come early this afternoon, well before the sun actually sets, thanks to a rare annular eclipse.

What World War II Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Downplaying or ignoring a coming catastrophe won't make it go away.

Some HTC phones released from Customs after Apple patent ploy stalls shipments

HTC on Sunday announced that some of its smartphones have already been inspected by United States Customs and have been released to carriers. The Taiwan-based vendor hit a roadblock last week when its devices were held up in Customs due to an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. “Each imported HTC model must be reviewed by Customs and will be released once Customs officials have completed the inspection,� the company wrote on its website. “Some models have gone through inspection and been released to our carriers customers. We don’t have the status of each specific device model at this time, but we are working closely with Customs. We remain confident that this issue will be resolved soon.� Earlier reports suggested that HTC

Watch: TechBytes 5.17.12
Google introduces their new "knowledge graph" search function.