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New survey is designed to bring the undersea world to users around the world, as well as study the composition and health of the reefs. [Read more]

The brightest exploding star ever seen with the naked eye in recorded history apparently experienced a quick and lonely death, a new study reveals.

IEEE, a worldwide organization of engineers, computer scientists and researchers, inadvertently exposed the usernames and passwords of 100,000 of its members, nearly 25 percent of its total membership, including Apple, G...

It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia b...

Twitter has always grown up in the shadow of Facebook (FB).

I miss ?white noise? markets of the early-to-late-sixties.  White noise is a random signal in continuous time.  Studies show improvement in cognitive functions and mood levels for students with attention defici...

New online social network CyPop connects people through their common interests rather than friends and family.

The Board of Directors is in the process of retaining an executive search firm to assist in conducting a search for a successor. The Board does not intend to place any limitations on the search, which may include interna...

From hair-tucking to eye-rolling to leaning in *too* close, watch out for these career-altering body language mistakes in your next interview.

Frankenstein, unfortunately, is the dominant myth of our era. It follows this pattern: a mad scientist invents a robot, AI, drug, mutant, new dinosaur, financial asset class—mortgage-backed securities!—and ...

Your best customers and biggest fans could be your biggest marketing advantage – if you know how to use them. In the age of social media, your customers and fans can be more valuable than ever, and can provide you...

Dunkin' Donuts says it will start using cage-free eggs in its breakfast sandwiches and eliminate "gestation crates" from its pork supply chain.

Negotiators for the NFL and the NFL Referees Assocation met until 2 a.m. ET Wednesday in an attempt to iron out differences in their months-long lockout but did not reach a deal, a source said.

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A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of Fabio Jose Silva Coelho of Google after Google failed to remove YouTube videos attacking a mayoral candidate.

The list of celebrities and major brands burned by social media blunders is long and ever-growing. Who could forget former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, whose tweeted crotch-shot set a new standard for political pr...

With all the debate over types of income and whether capital gain rates should continue it’s easy to lose sight of a fundamental fact: You too can benefit while capital gain rates remain a bargain. You d...

There's nothing worse than the hiccups, except maybe getting shot in the face. More »

Stock market dips, pullbacks, corrections, or whatever term you want to use to describe a market in retreat, can occur at any time.

The last time I talked up AngelHack, I was impressed that the hackathon had spread to two coasts. Looks like that wasn't enough for founder and CEO Greg Gopman — the fall version of the event has now grown to incl...

A former Goldman Sachs programmer who faces new charges of stealing computer code is demanding that the investment bank cover his mounting legal fees.

Code that's making the rounds on the Internet could trigger a factory reset on the handsets without warning, a security researcher discovers. [Read more]