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For the sixth year in a row, this European country was rated as having the world's most competitive economy.          

Ebay.com owned by Ebay Inc. (EBAY) has crashed yet again as reports come flooding in. This would mark the company's 12th major outage as technical woes continue to add up for the company.

This tropical African country is rated as the world's least competitive economy.          

After sliding for four consecutive years, the United States moved up two places for the second year in a row in the World Economic Forum's competitiveness rankings, from fifth last year to third in 2014. A combination of...

Islamic State militants have released a video which purportedly shows the beheading of British citizen David Haines, multiple unconfirmed reports said. The 44-year-old aid worker was kidnapped in March 2013. IS Beheads B...

Wearables are all the rage at the moment, but few existing products have truly captivated an enthusiastic audience. That's where Intel, in collaboration with Opening Ceremony, has come up with something entirely differen...

"Never say die" is Facebook's motto when it comes to taking over the ephemeral messaging arena, with a new feature for disappearing posts up for testing in New Zealand.

But don't most 23-year-old guys "donate" 4x plus a day? The post Man Dies After Donating To Sperm Bank Four Times In Ten Days appeared first on Popdust.

If learning is a priority in your house, try these apps.          

While some people have successfully 3D printed buildings, others have taken the same approach to the car manufacturing business, as a company has just come out with a car called the Strati that’s the first 3D-printed c...

This new feature will bring the top news of the past week in the world of Android to your screen. This week saw KitKat getting bigger, apps for the Chromebook, and a review of the "best Android" phone.

An anonymous reader writes: Kai Kloepfer is a 17-year-old high school student from Colorado who just won the Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge. Kloepfer designed and built a smart gun that will only unlock and fire for u...

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King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A rapid intervention team gets ready to screen arriving passengers for Ebola. The airport's health director orders the team to check a plane load of pilgrims ...

Windows 8 debuted with a notification system to allow apps to generate brief alerts, but the operating system lacked a central Notification Center to collect and display them all. Microsoft appears to be planning to prov...

The United Nations Secretary-General's daylong Climate Summit in New York on Sept. 23 will draw about 120 heads of state, and many lower-ranking officials, according to a list of speakers the U.N. released this week. Pre...

Apple held an event in California this week and Kevin was there to get some initial hands-on with the new products.

New Zealand Treasury's Debt Management Office is a risk management agency, but for years relied on a risky IT environment.

If you’re a journalist, particularly a journalist on a deadline, you’re likely familiar with Courthouse News Service (CNS). Based in California, the ugly-yet-functional site provides coverage of the latest rulings in...

Tools like hands-free kits and Siri might mean that you don’t have to have your face constantly buried in your iPhone, but for most people the reality is that using a smartphone suggests your focus is not entirely on t...

A 2010 study by former UK drug czar David Nutt found alcohol to be the most dangerous drug in the country. The research rated 20 drugs on how much harm each caused to users and to others when misused. This chart fr...

“No Good Deed” topped the box office this weekend and helped reinvigorate a domestic movie business that was flickering at a low ebb. The Sony/Screen Gems thriller took in $24.5 million from 2,175 theaters, easily be...