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Tim and Tickle say moonshine's illegal status is all about taxes.

We all know the standard things we should do on a job interview: show up on time, research in advance, prepare for possible questions, and make sure you have your own questions to ask the interviewer. It may be more diff...

Yesterday we mentioned how the smog in Shanghai was so bad, it was looking like the end of the world. By all accounts today is also terrible, which of course produces some absurd images of the sun. Join the conversation ...

Nelson Mandela, South Africa's beloved first black president and anti-apartheid hero, died Thursday after suffering recurring lung infections that were the legacy of tuberculosis contracted in prison during his long figh...

Click for sound.   A Tesla owner, attending our Ignition conference last month, asked Elon Musk why the Tesla Model S looks so much like every other car on the road, despite its innovations in technology. Produced by Ka...

You’ve probably heard about Birchbox, the monthly subscription service, for $10, that delivers a box of great beauty and lifestyle product samples to your doorstep. But subscription boxes like this aren’t just aimed ...

In death, Paul Walker has found more fame and exposure than ever before.

The next major stealth plane to fuel future decades of US secret reconnaissance has been revealed — and it won't carry any humans on board. The RQ-180 will be a joint tool for both the US Air Force and the Central Int...

It looks like Razer is planning to get in on the iPhone gaming action, according to a leak of its purported game controller.

The New Yorker's cover next week pays a powerful tribute to the life of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95: The cover was drawn by artist Kadir Nelson.  “From looking at ...

Kickstarter projects come and go, where some of them can be deemed to be successful, while others are touted to be failures as they did not manage to meet the financial goal laid out before them. The folks over at Digita...

Today only, you have the chance to pay $50 for the privilege of spending another $400 at Starbucks. But only if you act fast! Almost exactly a year ago, the deal site Gilt launched a curious sale, offering a special stai...

Michael Sipser, the Barton L. Weller Professor of Mathematics and head of the Department of Mathematics since 2004, has been named interim dean of the School of Science, effective Dec. 16. Sipser succeeds Marc Kastner, t...

A few members of a high school girls basketball team from Farmington, Ill., thought it would be funny to slyly flash the shocker in their team picture. As you can see above, it was indeed funny, but the school administra...

A business school drop-out from Los Angeles wants to build what he calls the "Anheuser-Busch of marijuana," readying for the day when pot's "prohibition" ends in the U.S.     

Microsoft plans to encrypt data flowing through all of its communication, productivity and other services as it seeks to reassure users in the United States and beyond that it will guard their personal information from s...

But it's happy to see him gone

Bruce Lee's iconic yellow jumpsuit fetches $100,000 at Hong Kong auction     

Nelson Mandela was many things to many people, but when I pause to consider his life, mostly I smile and think of his sense of humor, his dry wit and his remarkable ability to render someone speechless with a well-placed...

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A CIA officer who was captured during the Korean War and held for 20 years by the Chinese gave plenty of names and physical descriptions when they asked him to name his colleagues -- but the names and descriptions all be...

President Obama sat down with passionate fan and MSNBC host Chris Matthews tonight for an interview that was either "crucial" or "fairly insignificant," depending on who you read.