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Once again, science is confirming what we have always suspected. This time, after years of referring to Apple's customer base as the "cult of Mac" or "cult of Apple", a group of UK neuroscientists have been able to demonstrate that when you compare the brain MRI's of Apple fans versus those taken of people who consider themselves "very religious", well guess what

1. Microsoft has closed its guerilla design/thinktank lab Pioneer Studios--the group behind the highly-praised but then cancelled Courier tablet concept.

CTO John Donovan, left, sees digital water balloons as a fun primer on handset-to-handset apps—and a lure for wayward subscribers. | Photographs by Darren Braun As leader of Donovan’s tech council, Sanjay Macwan is helping revamp AT&T from a phone company to a technology company.

About 100,000 people have downloaded the social video sharing app in the last few days alone. And cute puppy clips aren't the only draw. With mobile-friendly max clip lengths of 15 seconds, Viddy's part Twitter, part Instagram, all the rage.

We're used to fairly similar LCD screens on pretty much all our mobile gadgets and TVs. That's all about to change

Very early this morning, Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station for the final time, marking another milestone at the end of the Shuttle program. 1. Long noted for its absence, Intel is now promising to have its silicon inside smartphones in early 2012, five years after the iPhone reinvented the genre and took ARM chips to new levels as the de facto standard CPU

Rumor has it that Apple may have a big product launch ready for the 10th anniversary of its stores--and it could be NFC-enabled tech. It'd be just like Apple to try to revolutionize the shopping experience for everyone

Yesterday, Google Launched Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that lets you stream all your songs from any device.

The CrowdOptic app for iPhone overlays statistics in real-time, enhancing performers, players, and songs. Imagine watching a basketball game and seeing all of the vital statistics surround your favorite player without taking your eye off the game. CrowdOptic aims to visually enhance the event experience through a heads-up display on an iPhone .

Defending the $8.5 billion

It's perhaps the most convincing clue yet that Apple may be coming out with an iPhone 5 "Lite": Older iPhone 3GSs and iPad 1s are outselling individual competing units from Android handset makers.

Will Apple pull the old chip switcheroo again, and embrace ARM CPUs on its Macs instead of Intel silicon? You bet it might, say new rumors , because it could mean your MacBook lasts pretty much all day on a charge. Only a handful of years ago, Apple abandoned its long relationship with IBM and the PowerPC line of processors for shiny new Intel silicon.

1. According to an AT&T insider , Apple has officially notified the huge U.S. cell phone carrier that there will be no iPhone update in June or July.

Foxconn, most famous as Apple's China-based manufacturer, has set out a stringent list of demands for Brazil to meet before it builds a $12 billion plant there. Rumors swirled for long while that Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, was considering expanding its existing local business and opening a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Brazil, with firmer data emerging only earlier this year

Yes, the company's signature desktop PC has a speedier set of guts and the new Thunderbolt connector. But has Steve Jobs's absence forced Apple to scale back on innovation? Apple just upgraded its iMac signature desktop PC with a speedier set of guts and the new Thunderbolt connector.