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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.

Earlier this week Toshiba announced a massive recall on nearly 41,000 laptops. They have become the latest laptop vendor to fall victim of overheating technology leading to recalls. The notebooks they have recalled are the Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite ProT130 as they can overheat when they are plug-in to AC posing a burn hazard to consumers. There have only been just over 100 reports of melting laptops to spark a massive recall. As this may not effect to much of Toshiba's Notebook business because Sony and HP recalled notebooks earlier this year for the similar reasons. In most all cases processors run hot, batteries produce a significant amount of heat creating engineering problems as notebooks get smaller and thinner. Intel and AMD are in the process of lowering the power used by processors for newer notebooks.