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Rickon Stark, wheelchair bound following a youth soccer match in Ireland last month. Damn you, George R.R. Martin! Is no one safe?

A Reddit user bought a Lumia 920 on eBay that came loaded with a pre-release version of the next major Windows Phone update, we learn via Engadget. The main takeaway here is the presence of a notification center, which h...

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The recent #FBrape campaign, orchestrated by Women, Action and the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and activist Soraya Chemaly, and backed by over 100 organisations, targeted big name Facebook advertisers such as Dove...

Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times has published an amazing article about Istanbul's Taksim square -- where protests against plans to demolish Gezi Park have entered their ninth day -- and the power of public space....

A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man sues his plastic surgeon after his nose job goes horribly wrong.

CNET is reporting that a "former government official who is intimately familiar with [the] process of data acquisition" detailed in the leaked PRISM slides says that the NSA had no direct access to tech company servers. ...

As part of a broader trend in the region, the United Arab Emirates has moved aggressively to shut down a group that sought political change and a more Islamic government.

If you're looking for proof that Japan's precarious economic situation is leaving a mark on its society at large, look no further. There's a pop group that is completely dedicated to watching, and singing about, how thei...

Americans got a rare glimpse into the breadth of U.S. government surveillance of their communications with new revelations that phone and Internet providers have been turning over vast amounts of data to be mined for "te...

A group of train drivers wear skirts to get around a shorts ban, as their company admits stopping them would be discriminatory.

NASA's largest rocket yet, a vehicle under development called the Space Launch System (SLS), is on track for its first test flight in 2017, according to experts who spoke at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach last month.T...

A suicidal man started a fire on a packed commuter bus in south-eastern China that killed 47 people, state media report.

The high-profile documentary We Steal Secrets:The Story of Wikileaks expanded into wider release in theaters and video-on-demand on Friday. Which would seem to be fortuitous timing, given this week's revelations that the...

Microsoft is a profitable, successful company that makes some great products. But it's held back in consumer electronics by its reputation as a stodgy, boring company. Take the better Windows Phone devices made by Nokia,...

In 2011, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and defensive patent acquisitions than on research and development. That's not a good sign for the United States economy; in fact, it's a stark indication that ou...

The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems that segregated data before securel...

At least seven are dead after a horrific shooting rampage that ended at Santa Monica College, according to The Los Angeles Times. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks told the Times that a gunman and six victim...

Credit card brands always brag about their cards' ability to expand your purchasing power and vie with each other for the greatest universal acceptance worldwide. Remember MasterCard's priceless slogan: "There are some t...

Poll finds number drops when told government's financial watchdog believes higher immigration will help economy grow Opposition to immigration drops when people are told about the economic benefits of net migration, new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation's top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is authorized by Congres...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet who is accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, surrendered Saturday to face ...