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People seek crisis help online: Hurricane Sandy information sharing peaks with Hurricane Hackers, but Google's live interactive Super Storm Sandy 2012 crisis map and new Public Alerts feature proves crucially useful.

This isn't how it was supposed to be for Purdue and coach Danny Hope this season.

As we brought to your attention last night, Google set up what it calls a "Crisis Map" as we waited for Hurricane Sandy to make land-fall. It has, and damage has been done, including massive power outages in all affected...

The worst of Hurricane Sandy is behind us, but the sports world will still feel its effects in the coming days. Even in the past two days, Sandy managed to hit the "Publish" button on an MLB.com admin page and push the N...

Planning to dress as a plain old witch or scarecrow this Halloween? Sorry, that's not going to cut it anymore.

"For the past year Cook has been weeding out people with disagreeable personalities—people Jobs tolerated and even held close, like Forstall. But Cook wants a culture of harmony."

Anthony Davis, meet Ludacris-Anthony Davis. But don't freak it out.

The defenseman has until Thursday to decide whether to accept an offer to play with Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the Swiss N.L.A., according to his agent.

The following previews were culled from the team chapters of the ever-incisive Pro Basketball Prospectus. Buy the book as a PDF for $9.98. It’s also available in paperback. For more, check out the Basketball Prosp...

PARIS (Reuters) - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga started his quest for an ATP World Tour final spot with a 6-2 4-6 7-6 second-round victory over fellow Frenchman Julien Benneteau at the Paris Masters on Tuesday.

Here is one MMA fighter with confidence for days and bravado aplenty, all of which caused him to get knocked out quickly.  There isn't much known about this video, so I looked to the comments for some added details an...

Spend your time imprisoned inside by a storm with a pretty name constructively: by deepening your bench, and getting your bye-week plays in order. Pat Mayo counts down the best pickups, after the jump.

Braden threw a perfect game in 2010. He’s now looking for a job. Armando Galarraga threw a would-be perfect game in 2010. He got dumped by the Astros. Phil Humber threw a perfect game in April, and he might get no...

It's hard to imagine the destruction on the ground when watching this serene video of Hurricane Sandy from space.

MyShoebox provides mobile and web apps to aggregate and organize user photos from a number of sources. It also provides unlimited storage for users to backup all of their photos, and provide access to them on all the dif...

With the rainy season now in full force across much of the United States, animals both in the wild and at zoos are coming up with some unique ways to cope.

Electronic Arts celebrates the launch of a new Star Wars online video game with events around New York City.

A partially collapsed construction crane dangling ominously from the top of a half-built New York City skyscraper is "stable," but the company that owns the crane and a crane expert worry that heavy boom could smash to t...

The four major U.S. networks have issued statements on Hurricane Sandy and the ongoing recovery efforts to get the East Coast cell service running again. But don't hold your breath for anything soon.

The Associated Press' 2012-13 preseason women's All-America team, with school, height, year and votes from a 40-member national media panel (key 2011-12 statistics in parentheses): Brittney Griner, Baylor, 6-8, senior, 4...

Verge employees in and around New York City are reporting that some carriers' networks are spotty today — in particular, T-Mobile and AT&T have confirmed outages in certain areas, and it's likely that the severe w...

Some doctors say barometric pressure in a hurricane can trigger labor; and many believe a host of babies named Sandy will be born in nine months.