Where to watch Sunday’s shuttle launch

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Before the football madness begins, Endeavour is scheduled to launch early Sunday morning on what will be the first of a final five planned shuttle missions before the shuttle program is retired.

Obscene tweet gets Vodafone rep suspended

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A customer service employee posts a homophobic tweet on Vodafone’s official Twitter page. The company is forced to apologize, and he is suspended.

Invention to help Brits stop ‘glassing’ each other

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The essence of the shatter-proof car windshield design is being transferred to U.K. beer glasses. This ought to save some Brits from a consequence of beverage-induced violence.

The decline of teen blogging (podcast)

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A Pew Internet & American Life Project study finds a decline in blogging among teens and young adults, and very low Twitter use among teens. Pew’s Amanda Lenhart explains the findings.

‘Space pioneers’ of the commercial era (images)

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NASA faces a major shift in priorities, with a new push to take advantage of private endeavors in space travel, from Boeing to Blue Origin.

Macmillan titles return to Amazon

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Following up on its Sunday statement that it is relenting to demands to raise e-book pricing above $9.99 for best sellers, Macmillan books are again available for sale via Amazon.com.

Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix

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Microsoft is getting set to phase out its FAST enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix. Will customers move to cloud-based search or move to Windows?

Turn your office expense reports into toilet paper

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Ever feel like the paper you handle at work every day isn’t worth wiping your butt with? Well, a Japanese machine can turn it all into toilet paper. Magically.

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

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Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the Toshiba Mini, Wacom Intuos4, and the 2009 Porsche Cayenne GTS.

In clean energy, U.S. needs more steel in ground

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Researching technology breakthroughs is worthwhile, but people in renewable energy say the U.S. needs to speed up installation of products to lower costs and stay competitive globally.

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