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No one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors. She was finally hospitalized — and a 2-inch feather eventually poked its way out of her neck, shocking ev...

John McAfee arrived in Miami after being deported from Guatemala, another turn in a strange journey that began after he was sought for questioning in a death in Belize.

CNN's Max Foster reports on entrepreneur Jason Sadler who is offering up his last name to the highest bidder.

Analytics statup Mixpanel has launched a new page on its website that co-founder Suhail Doshi described as "TED for analytics." The goal, he said, is to help companies get a better understanding of what kind of data to c...

Apple users who think they're immune to malware and other bugs need to pay attention: A new Trojan is infecting Apple computers in order to obtain victims' phone numbers and rob them via unexpected premium SMS charges.

Scoop.it launched last November to give anyone and everyone the ability to create their own digital magazines -- to aggregate and distribute content from across ye olde Internets according to their particular interests -...

If you are in charge of hiring people, you know that it involves kissing many toads that don't become princes. If only there was a way to know before kissing that you'd get a prince.

Postgame notes from the Maryland basketball team's 71-38 win over Monmouth. >> As Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon emptied his bench throughout the first half Wednesday night, searching for some semblance of productivity and ...

Google has finally brought back its native Maps App to the iPhone, bringing relief to customers who found their loyalty to the cult of Apple suddenly tested by the company's hastily-released and buggy maps service. Go...

A Massachusetts woman was stunned with a Taser and arrested at a New Hampshire mall on Monday, the result of an apparent miscommunication with police....

The USPTO has been overwhelmed by both the volume and the novelty of applications for software patents, and they can't maintain a qualified staff. Patents currently last 20 years, which is way too long in the software bu...

When I lived in a studio apartment with no closets after college, I got really good at finding inventive ways to stash unsightly stuff like drain cleaner and dirty laundry out of sight. Maybe I should have looked to bank...

Chuck Jaffe is winding up a column that wisened a lot of investors and worried a lot of investment promoters. Next week will be the last “Stupid Investment of the Week” column — but unfortunately it wo...

My, how First Take co-troll Rob Parker has everyone talking about him lately! Remember a couple months ago, when he decided to get a rise out of people who like to obtain knowledge by breaking out the totally new, un-hac...

The battle between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android is ultimately one of philosophy, about whether it’s better to control the hardware and the software in mobile devices, or just the latter, writes J...

Based on results from the 2011 NAEP (the "nation's report card"), 7% of Detroit public-school 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Even more staggering, 4% of Detroit public-school 8th graders are proficient in math...

Normally I would not give this kind of facile argument much attention, but it is such a perfect illustration of a point I have made for years about the climate debate that I simply cannot resist.

Maybe when you are not too clever yourself, you assume that the folks on the other end of the negotiating table are also not so intelligent. That's not always true.  A year ago, Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse came to New York...

More than 30 incoming medical school students will get a full ride to UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine thanks to a $100-million gift from the school's benefactor. The donation by Geffen, a philanthropist and entert...

This week, I watched in horror with most of America, as yet another person unleashed a furry of bullets in a busy Portland, Oregon, mall killing two and injuring others. But my horror was twofold. The first misery came a...

(Reuters) - Hostess Brands Inc, the bankrupt Twinkie and Wonder Bread maker, has received bids for assets being sold by about two dozen parties including Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Kroger Co , according to a media report on...

Noted 19th-century author Horace Greeley once famously urged Americans to ?go west? in search of prosperity. But today, potential home buyers looking to score the most prosperous deal possible on their terms in any of th...