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It's been more than two ­decades since America has seen a fighter like Floyd Mayweather: larger-than-life, villainous and vulgar, bigger than the sport, happy to offend. For the past three...

BOSTON -- Kevin Love has been ruled out of the Cavaliers’ playoff game against the Celtics after hurting his left shoulder midway through the first quarter. Cleveland’s power forward was...

In a SaaS or subscription environment, there’s almost nothing more important than the quality of customer service (or “customer success,” or “the customer experience”–I have no dog in the fight over which of ...

Saturday's deadly earthquake in Nepal was the "big one" experts were waiting for based on the region's history.

Thousands of protesters took the streets of Baltimore Saturday in the largest Freddie Gray demonstration yet as hours of peaceful marching turned violent.

Best Western At Etro's spring/summer 2015 show, models moseyed down the runway in head-to-toe southwestern wear. Etro blouse, $1,952, and skirt, $3,548, both at Etro, 754 Fifth Ave. Sol survivor...

More than ever, islands -- and the resources beneath them -- are the focus of geopolitical tensions between nations around the world. The biggest disputes range from the Arctic to Croatia to north of Samoa, and some of t...

British high-street cafe Pret A Manger revealed today that it sold one million cups of coffee a week during the 52 weeks to January 1, 2015. Overall, the cafe's sales rocketed 16% year-over-year to £594 million ($884 m...

The ball screamed off his bat and reached the left-field seats in a heartbeat, and Happy Harvey Day became Happy Plawecki Day at the Stadium. Kevin Plawecki's proud parents, who...

Mark Wahlberg and Diddy have bet $250,000 on the highly anticipated Pacquiao-Mayweather Fight.

Aid starts coming to Nepal, rescuers move in after massive quake kills nearly 2,000

Emails to and from President Barack Obama were read by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House's unclassified computer system, The New York Times said Saturday.

On paper, he looked like the ideal hire. Ivy League education. Top-notch work experience. Strong referrals. Rationally, all signs suggested I should hire him. And yet, I felt what can only be described as a "tap on the s...

Experts gathered in Nepal a week before quake to prepare for 'nightmare waiting to happen'

 If you’re looking for zeitgeist Biblical metaphors for the tech sector, you can’t do much better than the Tower of Babel. Human civilization a hundred years after the Flood; monolingual and gathered in a city calle...

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Pranking hackers briefly embarrassed Tesla and CEO Elon Musk Saturday, hacking the electric car company's website and Twitter account. Later Musk's Twitter account appeared to be hacked as well.

President Barack Obama had some help translating his ‘anger’ at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner from the likes of Comedy Central’s “Key and Peele” star Keegan-Michael Key. Watch the funny v...

So, this is fun. Via Zero Hedge comes this report from a Swiss website, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). It seems that a Swiss pension fund tried to evade negative rates on deposits by withdrawing a very large amou...

We spend an offseason formulating questions, and then a season answering them. Or changing them, or changing them back. I am not even sure, for example, where we are on...

In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Nepal, a Facebook app could help people worldwide find out if their loved ones in the affected regions are all right. "Safety Check" is a tool launched in October for the purpos...

For quite some time now PlayStation 4 owners have been able to access a playable teaser for horror title Silent Hills called P.T. on the PlayStation 4 but it has come to our attention that Konami is pulling P.T. from the...