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Is Battlefield Heroes the future of PC gaming?

Electronic Arts and DICE’s new PC shooter is visually striking, surprisingly deep, and will run on almost any machine. Oh, and it’s also absolutely free

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon in this July, 1969 file photo. Tuesday July 21, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.

NASA restores moon-landing video

Film restoration company helped take television copies of what Apollo 11 beamed to Earth on July 20, 1969, and made the pictures look sharper

Globe on Tech

Microsoft in the clouds, CRTC in the ground

Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart

Watchdog cites Facebook ‘privacy gaps'

Social network must take greater responsibility for personal information it holds, privacy commissioner says, giving the site 30 days to respond

Google's slowing ad sales overshadow earnings

Profit surges 19 per cent, topping analyst estimates; shares drop

IBM boosts '09 profit outlook

Tech giant now expects to earn $9.70 a share; second-quarter earnings beat forecasts

TechCrunch publishes sensitive hacked Twitter info

'A few of the documents have so much news value that we think it's appropriate to publish them,' writes TechCrunch co-editor

Apple disables iTunes feature on Palm smart phone

Owners of Pre devices had been able to sync music from rival's software

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