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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” stole the show at the Game Developers Choice Awards.

The high-octane PlayStation 3 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog won five trophies at (more)

BEIJING (AP) — Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, (more)

WARREN, Mich. — General Motors Co. will keep making big trucks and SUVs because U.S. buyers demand them, but a major portion of them will be gas-electric hybrids in the (more)

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died (more)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing (more)

BEIJING (AP) — Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China’s frigid northeast, state media (more)

The top-selling video games in the U.S. in February, by number of copies sold, according to NPD Group:

1. “BioShock 2″ for Xbox 360, from Take-Two Interactive

2. “New Super Mario Bros.” (more)

THE GAMES: Video game software sales dropped 15 percent in February compared to a year ago to $624.4 million. “Bioshock 2″ from Take 2 Interactive, which launched in February, and (more)

BRUSSELS (AP) — Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing (more)

JACUMBA, Calif. (AP) — A Toyota executive said Thursday the company is “mystified” by a report that a California man’s Prius gas pedal became stuck and caused the car to (more)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option (more)

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. retail sales of video games declined 15 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games and lower sales of (more)

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service must re-examine how livestock grazing affects sage grouse habitat in southwestern Montana after an appeals court ruled its original assessment was not (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Opponents of uranium mining in Southside Virginia and the people who want to end a state moratorium on mining the fuel for nuclear power plants have (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Benchmark Co. analyst downgraded share of Yahoo Inc. Thursday, noting issues like better-scaled competitors grabbing a bigger share of the search market and increasing competition (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — VeriSign Inc., whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access Web sites with names ending in “.com” and “.net,” plans to spend more than (more)

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — RadiSys Corp., a maker of servers that support wireless phone networks, said Thursday it acquired privately held Pactolus Communications Software Co. Terms were not disclosed.

Pactolus’ software (more)

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement Thursday on a 26-year deal to buy power from Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012.

The (more)