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It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes. Then again, if you have not stepped outside Ecuador's London embassy for a year, shoes are largely pointless. In an intervie...

New Yorker? Own an electric bicycle? You're probably pretty angry right now, since the city has just banned the use of electric bikes on its streets. Which would be fine, had you not just bought one, still entirely legal...

At least one part of the labor force has expanded significantly since the recession hit: the low-wage part, made up of burger flippers, home health...

Don't call it a "campaign" for president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But the contenders are lining up and alliances are quietly being sealed.

The idea of a decent gamepad controller for the iPhone is something that many gamers -- casual or otherwise -- are bound to be happy about.

Data to be released includes housing starts and leading economic indicators in the United States, as well as earnings from FedEx and Carnival.

Maybe the biggest criticism of this year's U.S. Open is the length of the par-3s. And Hunter Mahan's frustration was caught by NBC cameras after he was forced to use a driver on the third hole. After his tee shot on the ...

Not surprisingly, President Obama's weekly address focused on Father's Day -- but he also spoke candidly about his own father that he barely knew. "I want to take a moment to talk about the most important job many of us ...

Beyond the Big Stuff that made the news, such as the new iTunes Radio streaming service and some of the flashier updates to its mobile operating system from creative guru...

Search and mobile superpower Google is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from the web.

How far into the future should governments budget? Economic theory has a clear and rigid answer. But it's not one economists like to give -- for two reasons.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.

Nigella Lawson was apparently assaulted by her husband Charles Saatchi during a row at a restaurant during which he grabbed her by the throat. In photographs published in a Sunday newspaper, the television chef appears t...

China's shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned. The agency said the scale of credit was so extreme that the country...

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In the spirit of Father's Day, I'm guessing everyone has probably heard the dadism "It's not what you say, it's how you say it." Well, MIT is actually applying that concept to a new automated program that rates your body...

While plenty of attention is being given to Apple's newly unveiled iTunes Radio and Google's Google Play All Access subscription, not much has been said about Microsoft's own service Xbox Music.

The trained German shepherd dog can operate like a remote-controlled drone, but it's also a companion.

Father?s Day is a good time to reflect on the day your child was born. But it's not always the fondest memory for many men.

The Internet is abuzz with news of the first public flight tests in New Zealand of Google's Project Loon, which aims to provide Internet access to underserved areas using a network of high-altitude balloons. As Google ex...

Shapeways has built the world's most productive 3D-printing-as-a-service facility in the world--in Queens, of all places.

Only 47 out of 100 senators showed up for a high-level intelligence briefing with senior NSA officials, choosing to head home early for a long weekend instead.