Facebook today launches its App Center, a personalized dashboard that aims to improve app discovery across the web and mobile devices by sorting Facebook-connected apps by category and user ratings. More than 600 social apps — including Nike+ GPS, Ubisoft Ghost Recon Commander, Stitcher Radio, Draw Something and Pinterest — have been accepted into the App Center, which is available from Facebook.com, mobile web and Facebook’s iOS and Android apps. Facebook also shared the following statistics about its platform: ·         More than 230 million people play games on Facebook every month ·         More than 130 games on Facebook have more than 1 million monthly active users.

Okay folks, we’re live at Facebook’s press event for… sure enough, its new mobile App Center , the one that started leaking out earlier today. The company shared most of the details about how the store will work during a May press announcement , but to review: it’ll be one central store for finding any app across web, iOS, Android, mobile web, etc. You’ll get app suggestions based on ratings and what your friends play, similar to previous recommendation features that Facebook has provided over the years

It’s in every science fiction book and movie since forever. Humans — the ordinary non-astronaut kind, like you and I — going up into space like it’s no big deal. And it’s generally believed that one day, eventually, space flight will become mainstream.

Instead of announcing every one of its many search tweaks individually, Google has lately taken to announcing all the changes it has made to its search engine once per month. Today, the company released a list of the 39 previously unannounced changes it made in May. Among these changes are basic tweaks to its search algorithm, including changes to its so-called Penguin algorithm, a change that should improve the relevancy of news content in Google’s main search results, and some tweaks that will help the company detect link schemes that are meant to spam its search results pages.

Let’s just cut to the chase. The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is awesome.

It’s been over 24 hours since LinkedIn revealed that “some” of their users’ passwords were indeed compromised in that massive leak, and while the investigation is still on going LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira once again took to the company’s blog to update their users on the situation. First things first, though there’s still no word on how many users were affected, Silveira points out that as far as the team can tell none of the email addresses that correspond to those dumped passwords have been published

Earlier this spring, Turner Broadcasting announced that it would be launching an incubator , called Media Camp , specifically for startups in the media space.

It has been a big day for Foursquare : The New York-based company finally unveiled the newest version of its popular location-based mobile app, Foursquare 5.0 — the iOS version of the app launched at midnight Eastern Time, and the Android version was pushed out several hours later.

Microsoft today announced that it has partnered with Encyclopedia Britannica and will start to prominently feature answers from Britannica Online on the search results pages of Bing . As Franco Salvetti, the principal development lead for Bing, notes in today’s announcement, Bing is “about delivering relevant information in a more organized way to help you find what you need more quickly and get stuff done.” The search engine’s answer feature  tries to provide users with a snippet of useful information related to their questions and keywords without having to visit a webpage

Never minding the legal wranglings with Honeywell, Nest Labs is on a roll lately and just announced Amazon as the latest retailer to sell the Nest Learning Thermostat.