Micron CEO Killed in Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, the CEO of the semoconductor maker Micron Technology, Inc., was killed in a small plane crash at the airport in Boise, Idaho today. He was 51.
  The rise and fall of HTC
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - HTC was one of the first developers to get aboard the Android train. When Google first launched its original operating system a few years ago, HTC were there. This weekend, we learned that HTC reported a significant loss in the final quarter of 2011 and offered guidance that things might not get any better. Watch: Failed Russian Mars Probe Re-Enters
Analytical Graphics animation of Phobos-Grunt spacecraft falling from orbit.
Watch: SOPA Backlash Causes Web Blackouts
Google and other sites protest anti-piracy laws with new look.
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.
Facebook will release more user data: lobby group
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. social media network Facebook has promised to release more information about the data it collects from millions of users, an Austrian group lobbying for respect of privacy laws said on Tuesday.
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