Apple has announced that the iPhone 4S will be making its way to China and 21 other countries beginning next Friday, January 13th. The smartphone will reportedly launch on China Unicom just before the Chinese New Year, which will be celebrated on Monday, January 23rd.

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Yesterday, Facebook rolled out its new Timeline feature to the masses. This ultra-illustrative, chronological listing of posts, photos, shared links, check-ins, and more is a radically different arrangement than the Facebook profile you’ve been used to.

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider could be getting an early Christmas present: the Higgs boson. According to the latest rumors, scientists at the LHC are seeing a signal that could correspond to a Higgs particle with a mass of 125 GeV (a proton is slightly less than 1 GeV).

One space character which was leading to all /usr directory deleting. Github's open-source project.

Hands at gigs.

Viruses have been making the rounds on cellphones for quite a while now, but it looks like China has now been hit by a particularly troublesome one. According to Shanghai Daily, a so-called zombie virus disguised as an anti-virus app has infected more than one million cellphone users in the country, and it's left users' phones vulnerable to the malicious hackers that created the virus.

Apple OP by 15-year-old DeviantARTist wolkentanzer.

Humans aren't the only species capable of interrupting a snapshot, and with the ease of media sharing these days it's no surprise that we've stumbled across some gems. Here are 30 awesome examples of the animal kingdom rocking the photobomb game.

It was to cloudy to see the 600m drop off. 10 people fell off that day, mainly Italians… A few tourbus guides were pushing… Anyway. Preikestolen is in the south of Norway, Lysefjord. It is a few hours hike towards this place. Below there is a parking place which is crowded with tourists in summer time. So if you want to see Preikestolen for your self, not shared with hundreds of other tourists, it might be a good idea to start rather early (or come in winter).