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White Soul Gold Diamonds is the new creation by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, created for the house of Ted Lapidus. The new fragrance arrives on the market in 2013 and is characteristic for its airy composition full of flo...

Jeff Slobotski: Big Omaha

In a pre-Cannes move, Robert Downey Jr. has joined Jon Favreau's comedy "Chef," with production starting July 8 in Los Angeles.

A few years back, baseball writer and SABR member Mark Armour tracked the integration of baseball from 1947 to 1986, the 40 seasons after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Why 1986? That year would begin a precipi...

Caution: the following post includes descriptions and photos of bikini-clad female college students wrestling in a kiddie pool. Also, use of the term "anti-jelly vitriol", and a woman who punched another woman who was dr...

Kayla Wheeler, 16, holds the Paralympics world record in the 50-meter butterfly.

If a deal for Waze is concluded, it would give Facebook the ability to better deliver tailored ads and content to its 1.1 billion users.

It's hard to imagine a more helpless situation than being stranded, floating alone, in the emptiness of space. That's the setting for Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón's new film, Gravity. According to a press rel...

A good sense of humor isn't just a way to make your workday more pleasurable, it can also help you perform better (and get ahead).

Reinventing health care begins with allowing patients to be part of the decision making process, as lab results become more meaningful than a set of numbers that can either fall below, above or in between the normal rang...

The U.S., Japan, Korea and Australia are the foci of LTE activity, accounting for 90 million of those subscribers, according to Wireless Intelligence.

Are Microsoft's new, more rapidly delivered releases like Windows Blue and the Visual Studio 2012 updates just 'service packs in chunks'? One Microsoft exec explains why they're not.

Records can be made out of just about anything: vinyl, 3D-printed plastic, paper, even ice. Over at Instructables, Amanda Ghassaei has set out to push the limits of music formats -- after trying out Joy Division and the ...

Google's YouTube is venturing into the world of paid subscription content with Thursday's announcement of a pilot run of paid channels. Subscription prices start at $.99 monthly, but many offer a discounted yearly rate. ...

SUNNYVALE -- Twitter has established its first presence in the South Bay by leasing an office in downtown Sunnyvale, and real estate agents said Thursday...

This week, after The Onion, a parody news site, became the latest publication to have its Twitter account hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, details of how the attacks took place were made public.

There aren't really any big stars in YouTube's initial wave of subscription channels, except for maybe Big Bird and Elmo. But Bob Johnson, who created BET in 1980, is banking on YouTube's pay-channel platform as a way to...

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, put the Dow Jones industrial average to shame. It closed the week up 2.2 percent, more than double the Dow's gain.

A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes it easy to relatively easy to scrape Twitter for certain phrases and get to work analyzing the data. It's just one more way that data analysis is getting democratized.

With the announcement this week that a handgun made from a 3D printer fired successfully, 3D manufacturers may soon find themselves in a gray area when it comes to liability. From the looks of it, these companies aren't ...

On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes ...

Pope Celestine V was an elderly, possibly frail man. After living as a self-flagellating hermit in Italy, he served as pontiff for only five months...