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Tomorrow Space Shuttle Discovery leaves the Orbiter Processing Facility and heads over to the Vehicle Assembly Building; one final time. Discovery is set to launch on November 1, 2010 on it's final mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This would be the 133rd Shuttle Mission (39th for Discovery) as the oldest shuttle in the fleet it will be put on public display after it's final journey. On this mission astronauts will return to the Space Stations for repairs, deliveries and removal of trash along with a few spacewalks.

Google has invited the press to a sneak peek of the next-generation search engine. This event is only open to the press and will be held tomorrow at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. The invitation features a rainbow type design with the words 'Search On' at the top. There is no known reason or rumors to what this press conference is about but speculations could see live type search using wave type technology.

Software giant Oracle Corp has announced today that former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd would become the next Co-President of Oracle. Mark Hurd had to resign from HP as a contract worker accused him of sexual harassment. After investigations HP has found no evidence of harassment to support contract workers claims. But after investigations were done; they did uncover violation in policies regrading expense reports. Hurd will be replacing Charles Phillips as he resigns from Oracle for unknown reasons. Oracle has hired Mark Hurd to help close the gap between them and IBM in their markets - combine software and hardware.

Apple has officially released iTunes 10 this week with more then three million downloads within the first 48 hours. One of the most noticeable features in their attempt into a social network using music as the main theme. This feature is called Ping with currently over one million users within the first 48 hours and more to come. It will allow you to track your favorite artist, friends, post status, videos and photos like most social networks. On release they had Facebook Connect but had to remove it due to violations of usage. There are many flaws within this system but once Apple works out the bugs it could even rival Last.FM in Social Media. As for a initial review this concept is great for those iTunes users but far from competing with their competitors but with Apple's Marketing Power.