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If you've graduated from using just hotel freebie pens and are in the market for a new writing instrument, check out the Machined Brass Bolt Pen. The machined pen's bolt action makes it fairly addictive to flick open and...

Europe's economy continues to be a mess. The latest purchasing managers index (PMI) numbers continue to show contraction at an accelerating rate. The eurozone composite PMI fell to 46.5 in March, down from 47.9 a month a...

Facebook announced its long-rumored plans for a "Facebook phone" today. Here are the basics: Facebook Home, essentially a very deeply integrated Android app that overlays the phone's entire interface. Facebook Home inclu...

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is coming off a breakthrough season in which he recorded 20.5 sacks, and he says that despite his accomplishments in 2012, he wasn't completely healthy. Watt dislocated his left elb...

There are remote controls, and then there are remote controls. I know that most of us, myself included, have not heard of Feilan before, but perhaps it is time to sit up and take notice. With the plethora of devices in t...

Racism is a socially-constructed disease of the mind. Racism is an infectious disease that is caused by a specific form of ignorance: a groundless, pre-scientific belief that race is based in fundamental biological diffe...

A key mission in a fight against North Korea would be neutralizing their nuclear stockpile. This could be done by nuking the nukes -- which as you might guess is pretty politic all unlikely -- or through subtler measures...

Some people like to hear music precisely as it was recorded, which is why the most expensive audio equipment purports to do absolutely nothing to affect the original audio signal. Others like to tweak their sound. Whethe...

The Cleveland Cavaliers and playoff-bound Boston Celtics will face off on Friday night, less than two weeks after Jeff Green beat the buzzer in Cleveland to give the C's a 2-1 lead in the regular-season series. Friday's ...

Connecticut lawmakers pass wide-ranging gun control law in response to Newtown school shooting

It seems Iman Shumpert's effort to turn back time with his hairstyle is working. Jerry Stackhouse, who is 38, looks more like he's 28 in this dunk as he cuts through the lane for the jam. It's a pretty heinous effort fro...

This means almost nothing. But, what the heck, we're going to toss it out there any way. According to an online survey of consumers from Retrevo, people didn't want a Facebook phone, or a Facebook phone service. Luckily ...

With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims make its social network the hub of people's mobile experiences. The question, now, is whether people want all their Facebook content greeting them every time they loo...

Miami's Jim Larranaga selected AP Coach of the Year

Apple has banned a Chinese bookstore app for iOS, citing illegal content as the reason. The app offered titles that the Chinese government says are illegal. It was clarified to the developer by Apple that the app has onl...

Denny Hamlin plans to attend this weekend's NASCAR race at Martinsville, Va., which means his feud with Joey Logano didn't cool down during the sport's Easter weekend off. Hamlin is out for six weeks after suffering a co...

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Seagate will be shipping a 4TB hard drive that has the distinction of being the world's first to include a 1TB per platter design. This basically means that each spinning disk in the hard drive has a capacity of 1TB, and...

For young women in a wired world, a mobile device is as much a fashion statement as the clothes they wear. Even if money's tight, many will find room in...

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Banks would be required to go through formal mediation with a homeowner before beginning a foreclosure under the terms of a bill pending in the N.C. Senate.

(Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Thursday that broad federal spending cuts through sequestration should not be a drag on overall economic growth, but will have different effects among the country's ...