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Kids these days! They sound like they could be the heroes and heroines of Victorian novels, or residents of New York City. The Social Security Administration has released its list of the most popular names given to babie...

Google opened its Google Compute Engine cloud service to the public on Wednesday, and now its strategy for competing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is becoming clearer. Like AWS, Google Compute Engine is an Infrastructur...

In what has already been an eventful week for football fans across the world, David Beckham, 38, has announced his retirement from professional football, ending an illustrious career that has spanned 20 years and four co...

After listening to me talk about the Innovation Prize for Africa recently, my 8-year-old son asked me a very challenging question: "What is innovation?"

Many investors were perhaps thinking that Dell's efforts to go private is not such a bad thing, as its profit margins plunged as the PC maker cut prices to maintain sales.

One of the most impressive properties in Manhattan -- an 8,000-square-foot penthouse condominium in the CitySpire building on West 56th Street -- has returned to market for $100 million, The Real Deal reports. Owner Stev...

An international team of scientists announced today that for the first time ever, they were able to create new human stem cells by cloning older, fully mature human cells. The process cannot be used to create full human ...

An ad that was originally made just for internal purposes osmoses onto the Web, coincidentally as Google's I/O conference is under way.

The cause of the West, Texas fire that caused a huge explosion is still "undetermined", State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy told reporters this afternoon. A number of potential causes have been eliminated, including kindli...

The soccer star David Beckham, 38, said in a statement on Thursday that "now is the right time to finish my career."

Today's three-hour-long marathon I/O keynote came with plenty of announcements, but mostly we were assured that Google is focused on building frameworks that developers and consumers can both benefit from. We saw a lot o...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly been called to testify at Tuesday's Senate hearing on offshore profit shifting. The hearing is being conducted by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has the authority to...

In his interview with Politico earlier today, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared some additional details about the new Mac model that will be manufactured in the United States when it is announced later this year. Cook said that ...

In its battle with Finra over mandatory arbitration, Charles Schwab has backed down, making its clients the winner. But the fight has just begun.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT -- A dancer-turned-Occupy Wall Street-protester won a $25,000 judgment against the city after accusing beefy cops of bloodying her shin with batons during...

Angelina Jolie's announcement that she recently had a preventive double mastectomy, after a genetic test indicated she had a high risk of developing breast cancer, has brought new attention to such testing. The actress i...

Google and the Catlin Seaview Survey are working as fast as they can to map the world's coral reefs in Google Streetview. But the project's founder fears he may be too late.

Google will reportedly launch White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 update on the 10th of June.

Your web site must be the center of gravity for your online strategy. While you need to use multiple channels for reach, the most important activity needs to coalesce around one place, and that must be your web site.

The US Senate just voted unanimously to confirm a new Energy Secretary for the country. Ernest Moniz, a 68-year-old nuclear physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will take on the role of th...

Several congressional members send a letter to Google CEO Larry Page about concerns such as whether Google will use facial recognition technology with Glass.

When Dorian Joyner Jr.'s dad told him that he would soon be joining him at Morehouse College, the freshman thought it meant that his father would be coming for a visit. In actuality, his father meant that he would soon b...