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Microsoft said it remains committed to HealthVault, its service that lets users store all their medical information in one place, despite Google's announcement last week that it would shut down a similar service because it wasn't popular enough.

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions made a lot of promises that I wasn’t sure it was going to keep. Four unique worlds, four different styles of gameplay, and four unique versions of Spider-Man sounded like an incredibly ambitious house of cards. Other games in the franchise have tried much less than that, and they still failed miserably (cough, Web of Shadows, cough). But after three full days of web swinging, wall crawling, and old-fashioned fisticuffs across several amazing, action-packed levels, I’ve never been happier to be wrong. Shattered Dimensions is easily one of the best Spider-Man games I’ve played yet.

The announcement of the newest iPhone is (supposedly) just around the corner, and San Mateo County courts have just now decided to go forward with the Gizmodo-iPhone-prototype investigation.

Cloud computing is all the rage in the IT industry these days, but there's still plenty of confusion about how cloud applications work and what kind of long-term impact they will have on business technology.

The high drama of Gizmodo and the iPhone prototype it acquired could be heading to the courtroom, as prosecutors try to determine who should face charges. Police raided editor Jason Chen's home last Friday and confiscated his computers and related equipment, but prosecutors haven't pressed charges against anyone involved, and they're still considering whether Chen is protected by journalism shield laws.

Resonance of Fate takes place in the far future, where most of Earth has become ravaged by harsh environmental changes that make global warming look like a mild summer heat wave. Fortunately for humanity, they've got their wits together long enough to create Basel: a massive purification tower that cleanses the air around it, making day-to-day life possible for what's left of the human race. Being hundreds of miles high and crafted from machinery that seemingly defies the laws of mass and physics, Basel also serves as the only safe haven for the human race to rebuild, where the upper levels of the structure are reserved for the rich, and the lower regions of the tower are home to the middle class citizens, workers, and a few criminals here and there.

I want to be Nathan Drake, a sniper on a tightrope, fingertips that grip better than steel claws, a modern swashbuckler who's parlayed the half-tuck from design band-aid to video game vogue. He's wittier than I'll ever be, far better looking without a shave, and the playable linchpin in Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the PS3-exclusive sequel to acclaimed 2007 action-adventure Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Batman: The Dark Knight, the most highly anticipated of the series yet, hit cinemas on Thursday.

It's easy to look at a laptop, an iPod, or a laser printer as nothing more than a tool to get work done with or to while away your free time on, but these and many other high-tech devices didn't fall off a tree. They emerged following years of hard work--and in some cases, an entire career devoted to a single technology--by inspired researchers, designers, and developers.

From Atari's PONG to the Sony PlayStation 3 - we laugh, we cringe, we reminisce.