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We've heard rumblings that Facebook was testing a system called Highlight that would allow people to pay to promote a post, and now obnoxiously enough, it's starting to show up.

Sky has become the third internet service provider to prevent its users accessing file sharing site The Pirate Bay. It follows Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere which have already taken similar action.

Tim Cook was evasive — but frankly evasive — on stage at the 10th All Things Digital conference, where he was asked about upcoming products. According to a live blog of the speech from All Things Digital’s Ina Fried, Cook said he has “never been as amazed by all ‘the things I cannot talk about today.’ ”

Facebook's stock has fallen below $30 for the first time since its much-awaited public debut this month.

A massive, data-slurping cyberweapon is circulating in the Middle East, according to a Russian Internet security firm. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab ZAO said the "Flame" virus was unprecedented both in terms of its size and complexity, possessing the ability to turn infected computers into all-purpose spying machines that can even suck information out of nearby cell phones.

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations....

Samsung's new flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S3, today becomes available in 28 countries, including several European markets such as Germany and the UK.

New York City is seeking to overtake Silicon Valley as the nation's top technological hub, putting its hopes in a $2 billion research campus planned for an island on the East River... The idea is to create an applied-sciences university where engineers are also trained as entrepreneurs from day one. Proponents say New York, home to powerful global companies and now exploding with technological startups, could shift this sector into top gear if the latest findings went straight into new businesses.

Voters who click on President Barack Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice a 15-second ad promoting the Republican presidential hopeful the next time they watch a video online....

Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.