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If there's a ticking bomb in your personal or professional life, you already know it's better to defuse it than to let it explode. If you don't face it head on, you risk fallout that can last months, years--or even a lif...

The retailers' roads may be diverging: Best Buy's 1st-quarter results are expected to show a continuing recovery while J.C. Penney's are forecast to be dismal.For a while, J.C. Penney and Best Buy seemed to be doppelgang...

Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform group Fwd.us is losing two big players this week: Elon Musk and David Sacks. A bad sign for the Valley's latest political group?

DNA shows Ohio kidnap suspect fathered girl freed with 3 women; relatives call him paranoid

Back in the summer of 2011, I bought an iPhone 4. Yup, that's right, just three months before Apple unveiled iPhone 4S and Siri, I plunked down $200 for yesterday's technology. In my defense, I was changing jobs and need...

Fareed Zakaria to Graduates: Be Open, Be Optimistic, Speak Up

A single serving of pasta is generally about two ounces, but it's tough to measure properly without a kitchen scale. If you have a 20 ounce soda or water bottle handy though, you can get a pretty close approximation.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- College students no longer have to take comprehensive notes to help them prepare for finals. Not when they can buy them. Tom Brady figured this out early on, and the Florida State University sen...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigeno...

After seven years, ex-spy Michael Westen may be finding a job and moving out of Miami. The USA cable hit gets strong ratings but little attention, despite becoming a mainstay for the local production industry.

Nine-times Emmy nominated costume designer Grady Hunt died May 5 in Hollywood. He was 91. Born on May 16, 1921 in Lone Oak, Texas, the costumer began his career -- after serving in the Navy during WWII -- by opening a co...

The 69MB update is available over Wifi only, brings new kernel and new radio Build UCAMC3 looks like it's rolling out heavy for the AT&T branded Galaxy Note 2. Since last night, plenty of users are reporting that they ha...

The HTC One has a lot going for it. There's the UltraPixel camera. It has a fantastic unibody aluminum design. Let's not forget the sillily-named but great-sounding BoomSound speakers. And so much more. And while all tha...

Yesterday, wire and news company Bloomberg admitted that its reporters had been clandestinely using the company's data terminals to gather news. Now, The New York Times has revealed the full scope of the tracking: of the...

If you have an extra laptop lock lying around, a few modifications can transform it into a perfect secondary bike lock.

Google has released a draft of its next five-year plan for login authentication that tries to stay at least on par with criminal hackers, but recognizes that strong security requires industry collaboration. The draft, wh...

A tiny coffee shop In Kansas called Twisted Sisters has been served with legal papers by lawyers for the rock band of a similar name. Oh, yes, they're claiming trademark.

Little known fact: Tatooine isn't actually located in a galaxy far, far away. It's right here on Earth -- Tunisia, to be precise The North African country was where many of the most iconic Stars Wars scenes were shot dec...

Authorities in Maryland say a 37-year-old man walked down railway tracks while shutting out the world and was hit by a train, despite the conductor's warning signal.

If you're in the middle of a multi-day painting project, the last thing you want to do at the end of a long day is clean gobs of paint off your roller. Instead, store the wet roller in a Pringles tin overnight to keep it...

Whether Jodi Arias gets her wish - to be executed rather than spend her life in prison - is now up to the Arizona jury that on Wednesday found her guilty of brutally murdering her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in...

If Jon Favreau's "Chef" was ever in danger of receiving adequate financing, he can probably breathe easy now.