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MILTON, Ga. -- Twice last year, Alix Tichelman found herself alone with a man suffering from a drug overdose. The first time she called 911. The second time, police say,...

With money flowing from the tech industry, business is booming for sex workers in Silicon Valley.          

In his forthcoming book, Wharton professor David Bell reveals how location still matters in surprising ways, even in the supposedly "flat" world of e-commerce.

Aerial photo-sharing website Dronestagram announced the winners of its 2014 Drone Photo Contest. The winning photographs show a stunning birds-eye view of an eagle's flight an Indonesian national park, a beautiful waterf...

Malware pops ERP systems, gobbles financial, customer data. A Chinese manufacturer has been accused of implanting malware that steals supply chain intelligence in its hand-held scanner firmware....

The electronics company hopes to release a paper-thin TV panel by 2017.

Ming-Chi Kuo blames delay on challenges created by new hardware and software development.

Editor's note: In this first installment of a special, two-part audio edition of Mashable's "Let's Talk About," we explore the movie Boyhood, which opens in select theaters Friday and expands nationwide next week. While ...

The decision of LeBron James to return to Cleveland to finish his NBA career and his eloquent rationale for the choice will elevate him to the pantheon of American heroes. This act strikes a dramatic blow to the "money i...

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"Game of Thrones" was just nominated for 19 Emmys and it's not difficult to see why. The HBO series is now the most-watched show in the network's history. It recently surpassed "The Sopranos" with an average of 18.4 mil...

The sex industry in the Valley is still huge, Jessica Guynn of USA Today reports.  "Silicon Valley is like a military base: There are very few civilian women and lots of money," one Silicon Valley entrepreneur told USA ...

Anna Kooiman reports on new crime-fighting tool

Hundreds of Ghanaians who went to Brazil to watch their team play in the World Cup seek asylum on religious grounds.

The Hidden Cash treasure hunt phenomenon has gone digital. In May, someone started hiding envelopes of cash all over San Francisco, and now someone is leaving bitcoin wallets around the city, sending people on a digital ...

Adam Orenstein spent years cross-breeding marijuana plants before arriving at his proud new strain, a tall stalky plant frosted with white crystally hairs prized by growers and smokers.

Business has bought into the mythology of big data and pervasive "surveillance-based marketing and advertising", but its time is coming to an end, says 'Doc' Searls.

If a blue-eyed, chisel-cheeked mugshot can make an Internet sensation of a criminal suspect, can the law be far behind?

In the high desert some 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, the terrain is so rugged that the vehicle in which your correspondent was touring the facilities at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ended up with two shredded tyres. ...

It happens once a year in early summer: By the hundreds and thousands, on a date determined city-by-city, people around the world, dressed in white, meet at a previously-agreed  “forbidden” spot -- generally a beau...

If PlayBuzz's name doesn't already conjure up the quizzes and shareable content associated with BuzzFeed, just take a look at the two websites' front pages.  Shaul Olmert, a 39-year-old Israeli tech entrepreneur and t...

We knew Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Active was a ruggedized and waterproof version of last year’s flagship Galaxy S4 model, but we had no idea just how rugged the smartphone was until now. Redditor “yapinjapin1″ posted T...