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The launch event for News Corp.'s highly touted online newspaper designed for the iPad apparently featured more than just the latest stories out of Egypt. The publication was unveiled on an unreleased version of the iPad featuring dual front- and rear-facing cameras.

Toyota Motor's recent $50 million investment in electric-car upstart Tesla Motors is already paying dividends. Tesla reportedly will ship two prototypes, based on Toyota's RAV4 sport utility vehicle and Lexus RX crossover, to the Japanese automaker later this month.

There are plenty of legal ambiguities surrounding Gizmodo.com's purchase of an iPhone prototype misplaced by an Apple employee. Here's a fresh one: If the phone is determined to be stolen property, what, exactly, is the worth of that property?