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Adobe's newest version of Photoshop Elements enables users to "recompose" a photo without distorting the remaining subjects in the picture.

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Ed Ho (right) demonstrates the online telecommunications service Skype with friend Daren Tsui, on-screen, at Mr. Ho's home in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo)

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Motorists pass a billboard encouraging people not to text while driving in Indianapolis, where drivers younger than 18 are banned from using cell phones. (Associated Press)

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European nations such as Britain use embedded microchips in credit, debit and identity cards to boost security, while American banks and retailers play a waiting game. (Associated Press)

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Lower the Cost of Textbooks is one of about 30 groups on Facebook protesting the skyrocketing costs of college texts. A new law requires publishers to release more information on pricing and to reduce selling materials as a package.

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getty images Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology John Holdren. **FILE**

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** FILE ** Gary McKinnon, shown in this file photo from 2009, is charged with breaking into computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This mouse was produced from stem cells coaxed from skin tissue of adult mice and then reprogrammed. Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn't involve destroying embryos. (AP Photo/Nature, Dr. Qi Zhou)

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JOHN FRASSANITO AND ASSOCIATES NASA's Constellation program, initiated in 2005, is working on a new spacecraft that will return humans to the moon and blaze a trail to Mars and beyond. This rendering shows a concept of a lunar lander, lunar rover and astronauts on the moon's surface with a view of Earth in the distance.

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This is an image of a shark taken from a video shot off the coast of Catalina Island near Los Angeles Nov. 20, 1996, during a demonstration of a device to repel sharks, the Shark POD. The device is designed to exploit sharks' unique sensitivity to electrical fields and can envelop the diver in a 12-volt protective field for up to 90 minutes. (AP Photo/Yehuda Goldman)

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FILE: ASSOCIATED PRESS/BRITISH LIBRARY A reader examines a page from the earliest surviving Christian Bible. The book, known as the Codex Sinaiticus, was divided among four repositories around the world, but it has been reunited digitally for online research.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Alicia Istanbul works in her basement studio at her home in Marietta, Ga, where the stay-at-home mother and jewelry designer kept up with friends and marketed her company through Facebook, until the social networking site deemed her name a fake and locked her account.

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Ken Ogawa stars Ninja Blade, which is set in the near future in Tokyo. (Courtesy of Microsoft Game Studios)

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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (left) and Peter Sunde were found guilty in a Stockholm courtroom Friday along with two other defendants from the Internet file-sharing hub the Pirate Bay of promoting copyright infringement. They were ordered to pay $3.6 million in damages and each was sentenced to one year in prison. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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**FILE** In this file photo originally made available by Advanced Cell Technology in 2006, a single cell is removed from a human embryo to be used in generating embryonic stem cells for scientific research.

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Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive and co-founder of Yelp.com, defends his Web site as it deals with transparency issues. Some business owners and consumers are struggling to understand how user-generated sites, such as Yelp.com, operate. (Associated Press)