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Delicious social bookmarker to be refreshed, Google says sorry for Google+ spam attack, and the whot-selling tablet market.

Move over, Mary Kay. There's a new generation of multi-level marketing whizzes out there hawking to neighbors and friendsand experiencing hyper-fast revenue growth

The tech world and beyond gathered yesterday for another big Facebook platform announcement. The social network announced three major new features: group chat, a new chat design, and video calling with Skype. More information on the features can be found on Facebook's blog

By Chloe McIvor of Nature magazine A global effort has finally cracked the complex genome of the potato, which is published today in Nature.

Photographs by Adam Dean and Susetta Bozzi China is reclaiming its place as the world's megabazaar, with the city of Yiwu as its one-stop shop for traders from the Muslim world. THE megamall is bustling with shoppers at noon when two Pakistani men -- dark-skinned with black beards, wearing white skullcaps and the traditional salwar kameez of the subcontinent -- drop their bags near a third-floor sporting-goods shop. They remove their leather sandals, place their safari vests on the floor, and prostrate themselves toward Mecca, thousands of miles away

British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.

The reality of climate change is serious enough that it doesn't need to be exaggerated in order to be taken seriously.

Leaving water out in a clear bottle in the sun is a free and easy way to kill pathogens. Now it's time to let the people who bad water is killing know that the solution is at their fingertips. Researchers in developing countries have discovered a free

The United States is on the verge of losing its ability to monitor phytoplankton activity in the world's oceans from space, the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday. The loss of satellite-based "ocean color" measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton -- tiny ocean plants -- help regulate the global carbon cycle. Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process

Facebook Vibes, the Google+ baby experiment, the best summer employees, and more. Facebook venturing into music? Mashable reports the social networking site may be looking to build a music service called Facebook Vibes.

Some of history's greatest entrepreneurs werent satisfied with a single great idea.

When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that a "gang of four" rules today's tech industry, he notably left out Microsoft, arguing that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook control the landscape. Here's why he's wrong. The parallels between Microsoft and Facebook have always been strong.

And it has made close to $6 billion in revenue from app sales.

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With 750 million members, the social network will no longer base success on user numbers but on the cool stuff they make using Facebook. This week Google launched its first step in revolutionizing the social network as you know it