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We're barrelling down the runway at the Kennedy Space Center at about 300 kilometers per hour, and the Space Shuttle is well to the left of the center line. Astronaut Karol "Bo" Bobko, sitting next to me in the co-pilot's seat, says cooly, "Push on the right pedal to get it back on center."

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The ThinkPad Tablet 2 will have Intel’s new Atom processor rather than an ARM chip like tablets from Acer and Asusl. Lenovo said it wanted backward compatibility with software that runs on previous version of Windows. Follow multimedia correspondent Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb.

Sony was the second of the 'big three' video game companies to hold their E3 Press Conference, scheduling it so as to maximize at-home viewing.