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(Reuters) - Apple Inc shares fell 3.9 percent on Friday after the iPhone 5 debuted in China to a cool reception and two analysts cut shipment forecasts.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek trimmed his iPhone shipment estimates for the Jan-March quarter, saying that the technology company had started cutting orders to suppliers to balance excess inventory....

We'll never know if they were wrong.
NASA has quietly published a web video explaining why the world did not come to an end "yesterday," Dec. 21, 2012.
The date of its release, December 11, was no mistake, even if doomsayers would likely call it one last act of earthly hubris. NASA uploaded the four-minute "ScienceCasts" explainer, titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday," in an effort to answer...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The moon is about to take another hit.
Twin NASA spacecraft are preparing to crash into the lunar surface next week after a successful mission mapping the moon's gravity.
Scientists say the crash won't be visible from Earth. The spacecraft — named Ebb and Flow — are too small and light to carve a crater or kick up a lot of dust. They're aiming for a mountain that's far away from the Apollo landing sites....