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1. Google's disputing a claim by Oracle that Google could owe it as much as $6 billion in compensation for infringements of Java IP

Forget Facebook's status updates, and Twitter's social sharing in iOS: An Apple patent application hints at a future where a character-measuring iPhone app can tell you if you're near your pals--or even a potential soulmate. Apple's already patented extensively in the location-based app space. And hints of a "Find My Friends" API code have been found in the iPhone's OS.

This is the complete rear face of the sun, imaged for the first time in this manner by NASA's two STEREO solar imaging spacecraft on June 1. It's intriguing, and also relevant: Scientists are predicting that the next 11-year Solar Cycle could be very muted, which some suggest leads to an extended period of cold weather on Earth.

New MacBook Airs We've wondered when the MacBook Air was going to get some attention with new CPUs and Thunderbolt, and

In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself

1. Turkish police say they have detained 32 suspected local members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective, which was recently protesting Turkish censorship of Net activities by attacking government websites. Spanish authorities arrested local members last week, and Anonymous seems to have then retaliated by attacking the Spanish police force's website and successfully bringing it down for a period.

A survey of developers at Apple's WWDC shows they all love the platform.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.

A photo much imagined, but until just now never actually seen in the flesh--this is, oddly, the first time the ISS and Shuttle were snapped paired together, thanks to a departing crew member aboard a Soyuz capsule. Cherish it, space and science fans

There's been a rush of news from Apple this week: About OS X Lion , and the number of apps that Apple appears to be co-opting; about iOS and how it's incorporating more features from OS X; and iCloud, where Apple pushes all your details into the sky so all your devices can access them.

Pity the poor programmer whose software doesn't automatically sync every digital thing you own across all of your devices instantly. Thanks to Apple, if you're not in the cloud soon, you're buried. People have been yammering for years about how, eventually, everything is going to have to move to the cloud.

Today, Steve Jobs unveiled tons of new features-- Twitter integration, iOS 5, iCloud --but what many Apple fanboys are talking about instead are the number of apps that Apple appears to be co-opting.

"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC conference today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Apple revealed its long-awaited cloud sharing and sync service today, iCloud. Far more than a way to back up files to a distant server, iCloud is integrated across Apple desktops and mobile devices to ensure that all of your computers can synchronize contacts, calendars, email, apps, music, photos, and more

Twitter is deeply integrated into the upcoming code refresh for iPhones and iPads, iOS 5, Apple announced today. One-touch tweeting is a handy kick for Apple's social networking plans, but potentially a massive strap-on rocket booster for Twitter . As part of the keynote address at WWDC 2011 Scott Forstall, head of iPhone software development and a potential successor to Steve Jobs himself, revealed 10 new features of the 5th generation operating system for iPhones and iPads

While bored traditional sports reporters wait for quotes from the megastars, the NBA's elite social media team finds images, videos, and moments that take followers up close and behind the scenes of the Finals. We follow--literally--the social media masters during before, during, and after the action to watch how it all works