Innovation on display at Games Conference
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives....

Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus
SEATTLE (AP) -- Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave....

Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies....

No .xxx yet: Internet agency delays porn decision
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Porn Web sites can't park themselves at a ".xxx" address quite yet....

Chinese minister insists Google obey the law
BEIJING (AP) -- China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking....

Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers....

Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet
BEIJING (AP) -- Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday....

Internet fraud losses doubled last year
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI....

Disney to shut Zemeckis-run motion-capture studio
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carrey for his digitally animated character, Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol."...

Apple takes pre-orders for April 3 iPad launch
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web....

Bluefin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans will be the focus of a two week United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of Qatar....

Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget
PARIS (AP) -- A conference bringing together more than 60 nations Thursday added $1 billion to the fight against deforestation and boosted the morale of those hoping to save the world's forests - a key defense against global warming....

Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles
BOSTON (AP) -- The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades....

Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers....

48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing
HONOLULU (AP) -- Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish....

Personal look at genes locates disease causes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited illnesses, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family....

World's top scientists to review climate panel
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel....

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries....

NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month....

Pioneering Mass. robot lost at sea off Chile coast
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- A pioneering deep-sea robot made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of Chile....