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Hot on the heels of Barnes and Nobles' latest update to the Nook for Android app, Google have followed suit with a little update to their own Google Books app.  The changelog touts the ability to +1 a book while reading, in book search and landscape mode for flowing text on phones, and perhaps more [...]

If you’re going to fly around volcanic ash, first you have to see it up ahead. New Scientist flies shotgun on Sicilian field trials of a new sensor system I’M IN a helicopter, flying low over the verdant foothills of mount Etna in Sicily. To my left, a tiny light aircraft is approaching the immense [...]

‘I feel like it’s my responsibility to be the greatest I can be,’ he says in the magazine’s April/May issue.By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber on the cover of <i>Complex</i> magazine Photo: Complex Justin Bieber appears bloodied and beat up on the cover of Complex magazine, and it’s a far cry from the Biebs’ well-groomed image. [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ? An attorney who prosecuted Casey Anthony is back in a courtroom in central Florida ? only this time he is standing in as defense counsel, for his son. Jeff Ashton, who retired after Anthony was cleared of killing her 2-year-old daughter, is representing his 21-year-old son, Alexander Ashton, on DUI charges. [...]

Calling all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owning couch potatos! I have a great giveaway for you: it’s the Zero.1 VooMoteZapper. This is a little dongle with 4 built-in IR transmitters that turns your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a universal learning remote control. You can design your own button layouts, use gestures and [...]