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Thirty-seven states have joined the investigation of Google Inc. over allegations that the Internet giant unlawfully collected private data.

“Attorneys general from 37 states and the District of Columbia have officially joined the probe, including those from Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Massachusetts,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying earlier.

An Earth watch center will be established in the UK in order to monitor earth's climate change, pollution variation, and natural disasters.

The center will be established in Oxfordshire at the Earth Observation Hub at Harwell with a budget of £5m.

Customers will not be able to get their hands on Apple Inc's white iPhone 4 until later this year, the company said on Friday, conceding that making the model has proven surprisingly difficult.

Apple, in a brief statement, said that its black iPhone 4 had not been affected. As for the white iPhone, the company said it has "continued to be more challenging to manufacture that we originally expected."

The number of people using the Facebook has reached half a billion, meaning one in every 14 people in the world has signed up to the social-networking website.

"As of this morning, 500 million people ... are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them," Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, said on Wednesday.

David Warren, the Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder or black box has passed away at the age of 85 in his homeland.

Warren came up with the idea of black box after his father died in a plane crash in 1934 and based his design on mini pocket recorders he had seen at a trade fair, AFP reported.

Astronomers have discovered the most massive star ever, scientists have said.

The star is hundreds of times more massive than the sun and is twice as big as any previously discovered.

A Russian software programmer has designed a website that claims to be able to detect the user's inner author by analyzing the keywords in a text.

I Write Like can tell you the writer in whose style you write after you paste a few paragraphs of your writing and click 'analyze.'

Apple Inc has apologised to consumers who have had reception problems with the company's latest iPhone, offering free protective cases to owners to help fix the issue.

Speaking at a media conference in California on Friday, Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, said that Apple and the new iPhone 4 are "not perfect".

The analysis of MESSENGER spacecraft's data reveals huge intense magnetic storms in the magnetic tail of the closest planet to the sun, the journal Science reported.

According to the journal Science, the storms occur in the planet's 'magnetic tail, part of the planet's magnetic field.

Beijing has published the complete Chinese version of The Canon of Medicine by the Iranian polymath and father of modern medicine, Avicenna.

Translated by Zhu Ming of Beijing Medical University, the book was released in June 2010 and includes the biography of Avicenna and pictures of the book's English and German translations.