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Update: Apparently the date is wrong on this announcement. This year’s keynote address will be given on June 6th. GigaOm apparently mistook last years keynote announcement,shown here, for the announcement of a speaker for WWDC 2011. At the moment no announcement has been made from Apple about the speaker for WWDC 2011’s keynote address. According toGigaOm, an announcement has just been released by Apple alerting the media that Steve Jobs will give the keynote address at WWDC 2011 on June 7th at 10 a....

Apple’s iPhone PR team in the UK is apparently reaching out to journalists to invite them to attend WWDC 2011, sparking rumors anew that Apple will be releasing a new version of its iPhone at the conference. Electricpigreportsthat the team is approaching journalists from major publications in an effort to get them to fly out to the event in San Francisco next month. The fact that the PR team is the one that handles iPhone press is sparking speculation that Apple will in fact release a new iPhone during the keynote address of the conference on June 7th....

Far from the Sun, near the outer limits of our solar system, the ice giant Uranus slowly orbits its distant parent star. For the first time, astronomers have seen X-rays emanating from this distant world. The Chandra X-ray observatory, launched in 1999, examines the Universe in X-rays, highly-energetic wavelengths of electromagnetic energy most commonly associated with diagnosing broken bones. “NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes....

Microsoft’s XBOX 360 is once again leading sales charts, reportswinrumors. According to gaming industry independent market research company NPD Group, the Microsoft XBOX 360 sold 277,000 units in July, taking 45% of the overall current-generation console market. This is the seventh consecutive month that the XBOX 360 has lead the U.S. Console Market, controlling the charts for 13 out of 14 months. Official Microsoft Blog Editor, Jeff Meisnerbelieves that the console will maintain this lead through 2011, citing reasons such as increasing interest in upcoming titles like “Gears of War 3”, as well as the console’s ability to appeal to consumers in new ways....

TNW Quick Hit: The Kinect giveth, and the Kinect continue to giveth. That is the moral of the story of the Xbox 360, a console that has found new life ever since the Kinect exploded onto the world stage and became thefastest selling consumer gadget of all time. On the continued strength of the Kinect, and in part due to its own momentum, the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console in April....