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Samsung is the leading smart TV vendor worldwide, accounting for 26.4% of global smart TV shipments in the fourth quarter, according to Strategy Analytics data. Samsung maintained its top spot from the previous year, gr...

Hubertus von Hohenlohe, the 55-year-old skier from Mexico is the most interesting man at the Olympics. Aside from going to six Olympics for Mexico, von Hohenlohe is a German prince, a pop-star, and a professional photogr...

In celebration of the star's 39th birthday, take a look back at how her style has evolved

Lonely Planet has published a new book, "Beautiful World," an image collection of the most stunning places on Earth.  The book showcases 200 photos taken by travelers everywhere from Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah t...

Passed over due to negligence and possible discrimination, 24 veterans will receive the Medal of Honor from President Obama on March 18.  Of the 24, only three are alive to accept the award. The other 21 will be honored...

According to news reports, the opposition has taken full control over the government districts in Kiev, Ukraine, with the President Viktor Yanukovych's whereabouts unclear. Reports also suggest that the parliamentary spe...

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A major flaw in Apple software for mobile devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, the company said Friday.     

Some programmers think it's clutter, but others want the information.     

The Legend of Zelda series may have gone 3D many years ago, but an enterprising Oculus Rift developer is taking things a step further by recreating the original, NES Legend of Zelda game in a virtual reality world. The c...

Perk Hixon, a powerful New York investment banker, on Friday become the latest Wall Street high-flyer to crash into Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's sprawling insider-trading probe. The 55-year-old ex-Evercore...

Two big secret sharing apps have recently hit the mainstream, and it's kind of creating a divide in the tech community.  At their core, both apps are all about sharing secrets. Cool, but what's the difference?  With W...

An unidentified Chinese man in his thirties or forties stole an alligator coat valued at approximately $128,000 from a Hong Kong Burberry store by putting it on and just walking out the front door on Wednesday, authori...

We recently posted Reddit user Alexandr Trubetskoy's map showing that half of all U.S. GDP comes from just 23 metropolitan areas. Trubetskoy went a step further and broke all American economic activity down into quartile...

A hideous statue of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain is now displayed in his awful little hometown's local history museum, so that visitors can remember him not as the last rock 'n roller to rule America but instead as a weeping bu...

A New Zealand-born former model and television personality was found dead in her Sydney apartment Saturday morning, reported the Australian website news.com.au. Charlotte Dawson, 47, a judge on "Australia's Next...

Marketers need to start taking publishing seriously. It's not a gimmick, but a craft and one that takes work to master.

The Savannah-based film crew working on Gregg Allman biopic “Midnight Rider” has denied any wrong doing in the train crash that killed a 27-year-old camera assistant and injured seven others, insisting “no corners ...

It was the world's last hold-out against television and is regarded by travellers as a Himalayan Shangri-La.

Officials: Pakistani helicopter gunships target militant hideout in northwest, killing 9     

Facebook on Friday announced a new privacy change that will affect the accounts of users who pass away. Instead of only letting deceased users’ friends access their accounts as it did before, Facebook will now keep tho...

Half of new "princes of the Church" to come from non-European countries, in a gesture to developing world.