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The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging their PlayStation Network.

Wired diagrams the mad Mad world of bed-hopping on AMC's Madison Avenue.

Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, but he's also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a Canadian national champion wrestler. That may seem like an odd combination, but this dual background makes him the perfect fit for his chosen profession. Rose is the CTO and founder of D-Wave. He calls it the world?s only quantum computer company, but the world's quantum computer experts don't agree with him. The result is a nearly 10-year fight to prove each other wrong, and at least in some ways, Geordie Rose is winning. ?I?m not okay with losing at anything," he says, "at all.?

Robert Pershing Wadlow is born and will soon astound the world as the tallest man who ever lived.

From Audubon?s The Birds of America, a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus? heliocentric sketch that changed the world, we?ve selected the most remarkable science tomes from this year's San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair.

Thanks to the drug wars in Mexico, demand has spiked for professional bodyguards and guns-for-hire, many of them based in the United States.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Cramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. But now Canonical's Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop OS only when it actually makes sense.

London design firm BERG and New York open hardware shop Adafruit both trade in big and small ideas about the future, but their projects rarely converge. Until now -- with impossibly tiny printers.

The world's most popular web server just got a facelift. On Tuesday, for the first time in over six years, the Apache Software Foundation unveiled a new version of its eponymous web server, which runs an estimated 398 million sites across the net.

We know. You're excited about the iPad 3. We are too. And so is just about everyone else who follows consumer tech hardware. Rumors about Apple's upcoming tablet have been pouring in for months, and we've been following them just like everyone else.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was freed on bail in New Zealand, pending an extradition hearing to face criminal copyright charges in the States. Dotcom is not, however, allowed to fly, stray far from his mansion or, perhaps worst of all, use the internet.

In September, Intel showed off the Claremont processor, a research prototype so energy-efficient it can run Windows on the power generated by a palm-size solar cell. Now, the company is also using the processor's Near Threshold Voltage technique in memory chips and graphics processors, and the technique's public status has also been upgraded from may-not-see-the-light-of-day to likely-to-turn-up-in-products.

Unlocking a smartphone is perhaps its most basic function. It's a no-frills feature, but an important one. And yet over the past six months, the simple act of unlocking a phone has grown absurdly controversial.

One mobile web expert argues that while it might seem like the mobile web is all iPhone, it just seems that way. In fact, the problem with the iPhone isn't that it's creating a monoculture around WebKit; the problem is that it's the only phone developers talk about.

Scientists recently sent a 46-foot rocket sailing through the shimmering green band of energy known as the northern lights.