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A "portly" individual wearing a Batman costume surprised authorities in the Northern England city of Bradford when he arrived unexpectedly at a local police station to drop off a man wanted for burglary. More »

There have always been how-to and inspirational guides, but it wasn't until about 100 years ago that they began to use the "you can do it" trope right in their titles. The first one I could find, from 1913, was titled si...

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Yesterday's Thunder-Clippers game was marred by an incident in the fourth quarter where OKC big man Serge Ibaka appeared to intentionally punch Blake Griffin in the groin. The announcers and the crowd both thought Ibaka ...

Martin Buser remains the talk of the 2013 Iditarod on Monday afternoon after a blazing start and an unorthodox strategy. In about 20 hours, he pushed his team of 16 dogs for 177 miles with only short rests at each stop. ...

Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job on the first try, a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has chosen a veteran Secret Service official who oversaw criminal investigations to head the agency, which last year became embroiled in a prostitution scandal in Colombia, a...

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Canon today announced the successful creation of a new full-frame CMOS sensor, designed exclusively for shooting video. The new sensor can capture full-HD video with extremely low noise in settings where it has been hard...

For the first time in 10 years, the lead-up to SXSW is, well, quiet. The usual influx of party invitations, Twitter stream inundation and press speculation around what’s going to be this year’s "breakout ap...

The rivalry between Egypt’s ruling Islamist party and its opposition is heating up — through the medium of antagonistic Harlem Shaking. Last Thursday, 70 or so protestors and activists showed up at the Musl...

Nicholas Webber, serving five years for creating a hacker's forum site, is somehow invited into an IT class in jail. The consequences are difficult. [Read more]

We have written about China's ghost towns - neighborhoods with massive new buildings inhabited by no people.  Many see this as the clear evidence of overbuilding and a housing bubble. Some economists, like Yale's Step...

Among new airline fees are charges to speed through airport screening gates and board early, watch streaming movies, and have checked bags delivered.If you think air carriers have run out of ideas for new fees to charge ...

Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler says that WikiLeaks clearly qualifies as a media entity, and argues that by pursuing Bradley Manning for aiding the enemy, the government is putting journalism at risk as well as whis...

Roman Karachinsky, CEO of news personalization startup News360, stopped by the TechCrunch TV studio earlier this week to show off the company's recently redesigned Android app. He also shared a little bit of data on h...

Large firms that have been victimized by malicious hacking, including Google and Intel, at least have the resources to detect and counter most forms of computer crimes. But what about a small company, or political advoca...

The Miami Dolphins have designated defensive tackle Randy Starks as their franchise player.

Michigan has hired former Wolverines linebacker Roy Manning as an assistant coach.

NBN will be ‘three times the current price’: Tony Abbott With opposition leader Tony Abbott declaring unchallenged that the NBN is going to “triple the costs” of access to broadband over the week...

Prosecutors are charging 12 former Florida A&M University band members with manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of a drum major.