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I want to take a moment to salute Andrew Mason, the co-founder and now former CEO of Groupon. Whatever else one thinks of his tenure, Mason set a new standard for exiting a job with grace, humor and a commendable lack of...

Las Vegas Strip Shooting Suspect Arrested in L.A.

A tribute to those we lost in 2013.

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Traffic piled up outside of Reno, Nevada early Thursday afternoon after a tractor trailer carrying over 42,000 pounds of ketchup crashed, spilling the condiment across a highway. The accident occurred after the truck swe...

I don't relish the job of constantly pointing out the risks to the equity markets. But since few on Wall Street seem willing (or able) to do this, I'm "making the call" for a market correction, as enough variables have a...

US soldier pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case and faces 20 years; wanted to expose US 'bloodlust'

Consider this: Instagram has 100 million active users. And the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has, at last count, 109 million photos tagged, simply, "#me." By the numbers, if you're on Instagram and you haven't tak...

South Korea's February trade numbers are out. Exports fell 8.6 percent year-over-year to $42.3 billion.  Economists were expecting exports to fall 9.2 percent. Keep in mind that China's New Year holiday was particular...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo has been searching for its identity for so long, it's downright Freudian.

The White House's digital team is spending Friday afternoon trying its hardest to own President Barack Obama's sci-fi slip-up during a press conference earlier in the day. Obama said during the conference that he can't p...

Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs

Stoker, the new movie from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, arrives in a handful of US theaters today, on the heels of an elaborate, GIF-heavy marketing campaign. Since debuting the film at this year's Sundance Film Festi...

Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about three to eight percent more densely (PDF) than the standard zlib library. Because Zopfli is compatible with the dec...

5 Things We Hope Dennis Rodman Learned About North Korea

BARCELONA—The convergence of devices and software platforms is being driven by the shift towards cloud computing, which will ultimately become the engine room of all modern applications, according to Canonical CEO...

Trying to cut its burgeoning royalty costs, Pandora announced this week that it would limit customers to 40 hours of free streaming music per month.

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material he felt "should become public," but denied ...

It's not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest.

Amazon Web Services has once again dropped its pricing. This time the decrease is for two of its services:  Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

A Yeti "can be photographed or caught alive but it must not be killed or shot at," explains a 1959 US embassy dispatch on the laws that all hunters should know before searching Nepal for mythical beast. "There are, at pr...

Bro videos -- crotch shots, beer chugging, cool cars and so on -- have long been a staple of the internet. Today, bro vids are also big business thanks to "man research" and big brands pouring money into making them.