SPACE.com - NASA's plan to move the space shuttle Discovery out of its hangar in preparation for its final voyage has been delayed at least a day because of a water main break at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Reuters - The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it would use $10 million from BP to start a multiyear study to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

AP - Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.

A survey shows a majority of web users have suffered cybercrime, but many respondents were themselves less than honest.

SPACE.com - The wispy arms of a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way can be seen in striking detail in a new image from the European Southern Observatory.

Mashable - Sometime this fall, you can expect Google Instant Search to appear on your mobile phone.

Appolicious - Google’s been revealing some insight to its ongoing research, the latest being real-time speech translation for Android.  You speak to your phone in your native tongue, and the phone will speak back in the language to which you’re translating.

AP - Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in the country seven years after the U.S.-led invasion.

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone lost a legal appeal Wednesday against an Indian tax bill estimated to be 2.0 billion dollars relating to the group's 2007 purchase of local group Hutchison Essar.

AP - An animal-welfare group believes workers at a North Carolina research lab abused dogs, cats and rabbits, and the activists released what they said was undercover video of caretakers handling the animals violently.

AFP - Willow Garage is out to transform the world of robotics with a formula that has helped make stars of Apple gadgets and Facebook.

AFP - European judges ruled on Tuesday that German laws protecting state monopolies for gambling are not "justifiable," opening the door to a huge protected market for a host of online betting firms.

Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown

Macworld.com - If it seems like it was only last month that Calvetica debuted as a unique, clean, and Helvetica-ized alternative to the iPhone’s built-in Calendar app, that’s because it was. Mysterious Trousers, Calvetica’s developer, listened to user requests, and it’s already back with a major 2.0 upgrade.

AFP - Police shut down 49 servers and detained 10 people in a Europe-wide raid in 13 countries against an online film pirating network, the Belgian prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

The Upshot - Last week, a Washington Post columnist started a Twitter hoax. This week, a Washington Post columnist fell for one. Jonathan Capehart, an editorial writer and columnist, took "@RepJackKimble (R-Calif.)"  to task Monday for tweeting that "Bush fought 2 wars without costing taxpayers a dime." Capehart responded in a blog post that President Bush advocated for "two [...]

AP - Belgian police say 10 people have been arrested in raids across Europe against hackers who put illegal copies of movies and television series on the Internet.

Mashable - As more and more software development focuses on smartphones, a new industry is building up to help developers create and rapidly deploy mobile applications.

Four animal rights activists admit waging a hate campaign against people linked to a Cambridgeshire animal testing laboratory.

LiveScience.com - Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson sees the move from browser-based consumption toward mobile apps as a sign that the days of the web's hegemony are numbered. The cover of the magazine's September issue says it all: "The Web is Dead."