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 - ISRO builds India's fastest supercomputer
 Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).
- Largest-ever 3D map of distant universe created
 Planetary scientists claim to have created the largest-ever three-dimensional map of the distant universe, using the light of the brightest objects in the cosmos.
- Pak IT consultant live tweeted the Osama raid
 "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," tweeted 33-year-old Sohaib Athar. The IT consultant had unwittingly live tweeted the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.
- Facebook's growth exceeds expectations
 Facebook Inc's business is growing faster than forecast several months ago and the firm is on track to top $2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation in 2011, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
- Google doodles 160 years of the World's Fair
 A "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" was organised at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London in 1851. The event is also known as the first World's Fair, The Great Exhibition or simply as the Crystal Palace Exhibition.
- Tech Toyz: the war about Google
 On this week's episode of 'Tech Toyz', we get you a low down on Google.
- Live streamed royal wedding reigns on the Web
 Prince William and Kate Middleton may have had a traditional wedding, but the Internet traffic that accompanied the ceremony was something very new for the royal family.
- What's so special about Sony's data breach?
 The hacking of Sony Corp's PlayStation Network has earned a place in the annals of Internet crime.
- US ITC judge rules for Apple in fight with Elan
 Apple Inc won the first round in a patent fight with Elan Microelectronics Corp over touchpad technology, the ITC said on Friday.
- Amazon issues credits, apology for Web outage
 Amazon.com Inc apologised to customers for an outage at its Web hosting business that caused some websites to crash, saying it would credit them for their inconvenience.
- Apple, the world's second-most valuable company
 Consumer technology companies reporting financial results this week are looking like rowboats bobbing in the wake of Apple Inc.'s supertanker.
- Microsoft Windows sales slip, shares drift lower
 Microsoft Corp reported a dip in quarterly sales of its core Windows operating system, mirroring a recent downturn in personal computers and sending its shares down slightly.
- Sony gamers threaten to leave after hack
 Loyal PlayStation gamers are threatening to ditch Sony Corp after it disclosed that personal information for some 77 million user accounts was stolen from its computer systems in one of the biggest-ever data breaches.
- Facebook has 25 million users in India
 The number of Facebook users in India has crossed the 25-million base mark, the social networking site said Thursday.
- Panasonic to cut thousands of jobs worldwide
 Japanese consumer electronics major Panasonic Corp will slash thousands of jobs worldwide as part of "drastic" restructuring efforts.
- Sony breach could cost card lenders $300 mn
 Credit card lenders could be facing more than $300 million of card replacement costs if customers affected by the Sony Corp data breach decide to replace their credit cards.
- ICANN hires hacker as security chief
 A hacker who goes by the name Dark Tangent was hired to oversee security for the nonprofit group that manages all Internet addresses to make sure each one is unique.
- Android touchphones: Q&A with Ritu and Somu
 What's the best way to make your touchphone more secure? What do women really want? Ever have those questions that you want answered but do not know whom to ask? Rituparna Chatterjee and Soumyadip Choudhury chat with each other on everyday stuff that matters. In this edition of 'Q&A with Ritu and Somu', Soumyadip answers some of her queries on her first Android phone.
- BlackBerry to unveil new smartphones next week
 BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is likely to unveil new smart phones at its annual BlackBerry World conference next week in Florida.
- Pepsi to launch social vending machine
 PepsiCo Inc is introducing a "social vending" machine that lets users buy each other drinks remotely, further proof that its decades-old rivalry with Coca-Cola Co is going ever-more high tech.
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