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The to-ing and fro-ing of the Avatar 3D launch increased in noise today, with HDGuru.com reporting that the 3D Blu-ray will be bundled exclusively with Panasonic 3DTVs. We’d previously heard it’d be tethered to the purchase of Blu-ray players also . More

In the snowy Swiss Alps, behind a three and a half ton door that could withstand a nuclear attack and beyond a maze of passageways, scientists are depositing a capsule containing everything future generations will need to decipher our data. More

Last month, Twitter bought Tweetie —our most favorite of all iPhone Twitter apps—with the intention of rebranding it as the free, official Twitter for iPhone app. It looks like that change is imminent—Tweetie 2 disappeared from the App Store this morning without a trace, and presumably Twitter for iPhone will show up sometime soon—possibly even today or tomorrow—to take its place. We’ll have a hand-on when it does. More

A pre-Christmas launch date was always known for Project Natal , but October sounds quite early. Perhaps Microsoft has seen what happens with the Wii every Christmas and is taking measures to ensure they don’t sell out, making kiddies worldwide disappointed? More

According to the husband, who returned home from a year in Iraq to find a new baby boy, “with today’s technology, anything is possible.” Even conceiving a black baby when mother Jennifer and her husband Erick are white, seemingly. UPDATE More

It’s not too often I get to play with military-grade weaponry, and the military is usually pretty wary about reporters handling firearms. But yesterday I traveled to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD to see the latest improvements in soldier weaponry. More

In light of HP’s acquisition of Palm , Verizon Wireless ‘ discount on the Pre Plus —which has only been on sale a little over three months now —might seem a little hasty. Palm’s the flavor of the month again, after all! More

The Europeans weren’t kidding when they named it the Extremely Large Telescope. It’s, indeed, extremely large, obliterating previous records.

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The World’s Largest Telescope Will Look for Alternative Earths [Science]

This is pretty preposterous, particularly if you’re already of the thinking that the iPad is just a large iPod Touch. Digitimes, the Taiwanese rag that relies on Chinese whispers, has quoted itself as saying the 5-7-inch iPad will launch 2011. More

For this week’s Photoshop Contest , I asked you to imagine El Jobso announcing something a bit more surprising than a new iPhone. And the reality distortion apparently field works for non-Apple products, because now I really want a pizza.

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We’d Love to See Steve Jobs Announcing These 47 Non-Apple Products [PhotoshopContest]