U2 wrap record-breaking tour in Canada

U2 made history as they wrapped their 360 Tour in Canada on Saturday after pulling in more than $736 million and playing for 7.2 million fans around the world.

The Irish rockers took the stage in Moncton, New Brunswick for the final stop on the massive trek, which has become the highest-grossing tour ever since kicking off on June 30, 2009.

Supporting acts Carney and Arcade Fire warmed up the 75,000-strong crowd, before U2 took the stage for a set which included their hits I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Beautiful Day, Elevation and Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Chimpanzee bottle feeds tiger cubs at Thai zoo

A two-and-half-year-old male chimpanzee named Dodo has been feeding the cubs every day for more than a year at the Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo.

Dodo's trainers at the zoo around 25 miles south east of Bangkok in Thailand initially just wanted to challenge the chimp.

Since he showed no fear of the tiger cubs, they worked with him until he picked up the habit.

Death toll mounts in Syrian city

Syrian security forces have killed at least 62 people in an escalation of the crackdown on protests ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, activists and residents said.

Most died in raids on the flashpoint city of Hama, where a barrage of shelling and gunfire left bodies scattered in the streets.

Demonstrations calling for President Bashar Assad's ousting are expected to swell during Ramadan, which starts on Monday.

Security forces appeared to be racing against time as they stormed and raided cities and small villages across the country in an attempt to crush a remarkably resilient uprising that began in mid-March.

Your Smartphone Is A Hacker Paradise

Apple's iPhone is often touted as being more "secure" than Google's Android equivalents because it has a tightly managed ecosystem. Apple's careful not to let malicious apps into its App Store, from where they could worm their way into devices. It turns out that the update dealt with a single loophole uncovered by Trustwave Spiderlabs' Nick Percoco and team, and Apple worked fast to solve it because as holes go, it was gaping. To get a certificate, a website offering this type of security has to officially request one from a trusted certificate authority, and the certificate is crafted to have the identity of the website built into it. Percoco's team decided to test iOS devices with the same kind of hack that a malicious coder could use to break SSL.

'Chuck' casts 'Matrix' minx for final season

Carrie-Anne Moss, known best for her "Matrix" role, has signed on to guest star in the upcoming final season of "Chuck".

Moss will play Gertrude Verbanski, "a former spy who now runs Verbanski Corp, the chief rival of Chuck's new spy company. She's ruthless and deadly, yet she also has a weak spot for one John Casey - her old rival."

Mark Hamill and Craig Kilborn will also be guest starring on the show, both playing villains.

"Chuck", which airs on NBC, will be ending its run with their fifth season, comprised of 13 episodes.

Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter marries rugby star

Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips married England rugby star Mike Tindall on Saturday -- but Britain's second royal wedding of the year was largely a low-key affair, with only a hint of the glamour and excitement of Prince William's showstopping nuptials.

Phillips, 30, who is 13th in line to the throne and does not use a royal title, and Tindall, 32, were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving well-wishers and the sound of traditional bagpipes as they left their wedding service at Edinburgh's 17th-century Canongate Kirk after a private ceremony.

George Lucas' 'Red Tails' will finally hit theaters

George Lucas has been talking about Red Tails for a long, long time. If you look closely, you can find the film’s title mentioned in nearly every major article written about Lucas in over a decade. Especially during the slow-but-steady release of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, the Red Tails project began to take on the aura of myth: It was the Film George Lucas Would Make Next, lurking just over the next dune. (To quoteSpaceballs: “You said that three dunes ago!”) The film — which tells the story of the heroic African-American pilots in the WWII-era Tuskegee program — finally went into production a couple years ago, with a cast that included Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Bryan Cranston.

Google Acquires I.B.M. Patents

Google made its most recent move in the ongoing great game of acquiring tech patents. The company purchased a bundle of more than a thousand patents from I.B.M., according to a report in the New York Times.

Reiterating a strategy long-espoused by the tech giant, an e-mail statement from Google said that the purchase was relevant to its "business needs," stressing, "Bad software patent litigation is a wasteful war that no one will win." In short, the idea is that preemptively buying patents will mean law suits are less likely down the line.

Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government

As the U.S. government attempts to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling, the Treasury's operating cash balance dropped to $74 billion this week, less than the $76 billion that the tech company Apple had in cash as of June 25, when it released its most-recent financial results.

Apple is taking in more money than it lays out, CNN said.

At present, the U.S. is spending around $200 billion more than it takes in in revenue every month, BBC News reports. Meanwhile, Apple is raking it in. In the three months ended June 25, net income was $7.31 billion, an increase of 125% from a year earlier.

Not only has the world's highest-valued technology company surpassed the fiscal strength of the world's most powerful nation, but Apple is now the second-largest company on the planet, after Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $363.25 billion, according to Financial Post. And earlier this week, shares of the company began trading above $400 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time ever.

Yes, Apple is really on a roll.

Alcatel-Lucent Gets $70 Million in Microsoft Patent Case

Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion.

A jury in San Diego issued its verdict Friday in a lawsuit that accused Microsoft of violating patents in several products including Outlook. The suit was brought by Lucent in 2003, before it merged with Alcatel.

In 2007, a jury in the same court ordered Microsoft to pay Lucent $1.5 billion for the infringement. The judge overturned that decision, saying Microsoft infringed only one of two patents at issue, and that the second patent was jointly owned by a European research institute, so the court didn't have jurisdiction to rule on it.