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Michelangelo: His Epic Life. By Martin Gayford. Fig Tree; 662 pages. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, ruler of the Florentine Republic, was so taken by a statue carved by an adolescent that he proposed to make the sculptor a member...

After taming dragons on “Game of Thrones,” Emilia Clarke is preparing to fight cyborgs as she will portray Sarah Connor in Paramount, Skydance and Annapurna’s “Terminator” reboot. Clarke, along with Brie Larson...

The Canadian college student who made headlines after live-streaming his suicide attempt to 200 4chan users last month has been charged with arson and disregard for human life, CTV News reports. The 21-year-old male id...

Aaron Kushner, the owner and publisher of The Orange County Register, has already hired 200 employees for the daily paper he is planning for the Los Angeles area.     

Earlier in the week, we did report that Windows 8 Threshold might see the return of the proper Start menu experience, but that remains a rumor even until now. Of course, until something official comes out, we are stuck w...

What do you want for Christmas? I want a razor sharp wrist/arm blade that’s shaped like a scorpion with a pointy sharp death tail. Can I have it? Can I have it mom? Please? No… You’ll…

Andrew Ambrosino, the same concept designer who showed us what the next version of OS X could look like, also has an interesting take on the Apple TV’s interface. His concept design is inspired by Jony Ive’s iOS 7. �...

One of the most famous and important books in human history is now available for viewing online in high-resolution thanks to archivists at Oxford University and the Vatican Library. The "Gutenberg Bible" was printed by J...

You’d hardly expect the words American Psycho and musical theater to be used in the same sentence, but a stage adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel has opened at London‘s Almeida Theater. And, surp...

Google has acquired robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics, best known for its line of quadrupeds with funny gaits and often mind-blowing capabilities. Products that the firm has demonstrated in recent years incl...

From the don't-try-this-at-home category we give you a fun video showing a 27-year-old Mac PC navigating the modern Internet. Given how fast technology changes, 27-years in tech is like over 100 human years.  It's a lit...

Bitcoin has been in the news a ton and it's possible to mine it on your Mac. But unless you purchase dedicated mining hardware (which is expensive) Bitcoin mining isn't cost-effective. A better choice is Litecoin.

Apple seeded the second beta of iOS 7.1 to developers today, and Cult of Mac has put together a handy collection of GIFs showing the most significant changes we can expect on our devices in the coming weeks. On the face ...

Companies in New Mexico and Missouri could begin slaughtering horses within a few weeks after a federal appeals court removed a temporary ban that was preventing domestic horse slaughter from…

SEATTLE (AP) -- Political pressure is building in support of letting Puget Sound machinists vote on a Boeing contract proposal in high-stakes negotiations to keep thousands of jobs in Washington state.     

Ford and the Henry Ford museum are taking their vast trove of historical documents, photos, video and other items and digitizing them so they can be shared online with the…

Tokyo offers $20bn in aid and loans for ASEAN members in charm offensive to woo global public opinion on China dispute.

Sprint is working toward a possible bid for rival T-Mobile, people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for a giant telecom merger that if permitted by regulators would...

An analysis by Fed staffers on replacing the $1 bill with a coin finds the move would cost the government $1.2 billion over 30 years.WASHINGTON — To lawmakers and others arguing that replacing the $1 bill with a $1 coi...

Google just bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon, reports The New York Times. Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, Mass. The company creates "machines t...

Adobe Systems Inc., the Photoshop software maker, said fourth-quarter profit shrank as a shift to cloud-based software cuts into profitability. The results fell short of expectations, but subscription-based revenue jumpe...

Nearly done with a 10-day trade mission to Asia, Governor Deval Patrick already presided over two deals with Massachusetts firms in Japan, and expects to lay the groundwork for more as he hits Hong Kong and Singapore.  ...