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Last week Facebook revealed that it had manipulated the news feeds of over half a million randomly selected users to change the number of positive and negative posts they saw.

Tom Perotta's novel comes to HBO.

He's not a physicist, he's a very naughty boy Renowned physicist and boffin of the highest order Stephen Hawking is to join famous '70s British surrealist comedy group Monty Python on stage in the comedians' first live s...

For weeks there have been reports that BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France, would face a massive fine and be barred from trading in dollars for violating U.S. sanctions. Now it's official, the bank will pay $8.8 bill...

Royal Philips NV says it will separate its LED lighting components unit into a stand-alone company within Philips by 2015, preparing it for a potential spin off or sale. The…

Kenneth R. Feinberg, a compensation expert who handled the 9/11 settlements, is to announce the G.M. payouts in a Monday morning news conference.

Islamist militant group Isis declares the establishment of a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria.

The Rhode Island Senate reconvened Monday in an unusual — and brief — post-recess session to pass legislation it had already approved, after questions were raised about the original vote margin.

Andrea Soros Colombel, daughter of billionaire investor George Soros, is putting up her Greenwich Village townhouse for $24.75 million. The luxurious property went on sale briefly in 2012 for $29.5 million, but was later...

    We sorted through data from the Social Security Administration for every person born in 1984. NOW WATCH: We Did The Math: Here's How Old You Probably Are Based On Your Name Follow BI Video: On Facebook Join the c...

The trial of Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius resumes in South Africa Monday after being halted for a month-long psychiatric assessment of the athlete.

Is deflation such a bad thing?

The music industry isn't quite dead — it's merely completely unrecognizable from what it once was. The following chart from music industry analyst Mark Mulligan explains: Since 2000, overall global music revenues have ...

It's hard not to laugh at how upset this dude is, but we can't blame him for being pissed about the way Mexico-Netherlands ended up.

A Facebook researcher behind a controversial psychology experiment on users has defended the research, saying it was aimed at looking into a common concern that seeing friends post positive content on the social networki...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly killed and crucified eight men in a town near Aleppo, Syria. The independent monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the men were executed for b...

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" had a huge opening weekend, becoming the first film this year to have a $100 million debut. While it's fun to look at, the movie is an exercise in excess: too many plots, too many new T...

The visiting team spent two days in the Cuban capital to encourage an open Internet

Nicki Minaj says "I really thought I was about to die," during her acceptance speech at the BET Awards.

Information wants to be free. It?s time to create that our enterprise systems began to behave less like gatekeepers and more like facilitators.

Juice Press believes its newest product line will exceed the expectations of even the city's biggest juice snobs. The chain is pitching ProViotic, a vegan-based probiotic product line derived from...

World's second-most-repressive regime for internet access welcomes lecture on freedom Nixon in China it may not be, but Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly visited Cuba....