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You are being watched. A 26-year-old Osaka-based barista named Kazuki Yamamoto is creating some of the funniest and most impressive latte art we've seen these days (and we've seen a bunch). Check out some familiar faces,...

Last weekend, internet pioneer Ted Nelson speculated that the creator of Bitcoin (who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto) was actually Japanese math professor Shinichi Mochizuki. This was the latest theory in an extr...

Merck & Co. says it is ending development of an experimental Parkinson's disease drug because the drug wasn't working.

Hours after Twitter rolled out support for two-step verification, Kim Dotcom has claimed credit for inventing the security feature. In a series of tweets, the embattled Megaupload founder points to a patent dating back t...

After a first quarter that saw films like "Jack and the Giant Slayer" and "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" flop at the box office, New Line is hopeful its summer slate makes up for it including the Jennifer Aniston come...

Since the Washington Post published a video of Paul Tudor Jones discussing the biggest killers in trading success -- divorce and having a baby -- people have been concentrating on his latter point, and calling him a sexi...

The Fitbit Flex and Jawbone Up are very similar fitness bracelets that track your activity. Which one should you put on your wrist?

Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after confirming that it had shipped over 6 million units of the S4 since...

Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have just bought a $26.5 million estate in seaside Montecito, Calif., according to TMZ. The 13-acre ocean-view estate has a 10,522-square-foot Italian-style villa that was built i...

Engagement photos have a reputation for being stuffy, posed and cheesy. But soon-to-be-married couple Howard Jiang and Dawn Yang set out to challenge that notion. On Wednesday, Reddit user Kyle Stoldt posted his friends'...

After initially issuing its September profit warning and then reporting a dramatic turnaround last month, Burberry is back in a big way with its recently reported 20 percent sales growth for the year ending March 31, as ...

Tinder, the dating app for people who hate dating apps, has shown a stubborn desire to expand beyond its "hookup" reputation. In April, cofounders Sean Rad and Justin Mateen voiced intentions to extend the app's matchmak...

British authorities are debating whether to raise the country's threat level one day after a British soldier was hacked to death by suspects shouting jihadist slogans in southeast London.

For those that need a ruggedized smartphone, the Cat B15 may be a decent competitor priced at a reasonable $350 with no carrier contract.

After being made aware of a large and potentially costly privacy breach exposing more than 170,000 records containing Social Security numbers and financial information, the two companies responsible for the blunder are t...

There's a happy ending to the story of a dog, found alive in the rubble after a massive tornado devastated Moore, Oklahoma

UPS AND DOWNS: Stocks plunged at the opening of trading but recovered by midday. A rout overseas and in the early going on Wall Street was set off by a slowdown in China and worries that the Federal Reserve might slow do...

More and more we're hearing of CEOs who devote significant portions of their time to a task long considered beneath them: hiring. Dave Gilboa, co-founder of Warby Parker, said Wednesday at The Wall Street Journal's "Secr...

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It's hard to predict exactly what technologies and trends will transform our lives. Few understood just how powerful the Internet would be, dismantling entire industries and creating millions of jobs. So what's the next ...

UPS AND DOWNS: Stocks plunged at the opening of trading but recovered by midday. A rout overseas and in the early going on Wall Street was set off by a slowdown in China and worries that the Federal Reserve might slow do...

Close contact with someone infected with the new bird flu strain, H7N9, is likely to get you sick, according to a new study published today, May 23, in the journal Science. The virus isn't that great at passing through t...