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Here's a very cool video from Wired, in which Yasuhiro Ootori, director of Sony's engineering department, goes through the PlayStation 4's guts piece by piece. The console isn't available for sale until the middle of the...

If you're like me, you've always imagined the Titanic as an unfathomably huge ship — a relic of an age in which shipping of all kinds was vastly more important and grander than it is today. That's why this image tweete...

One major key to success: An idea that has fallen out of favor--continuous improvement.

Harvard University finance officials are pledging to manage costs better and pursue innovative revenue strategies after its deficit soared to $34 million in the most recent fiscal year, compared to a $7.9 million shortfa...

Two Russian cosmonauts — flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy — took the unlit Olympic torch on a spacewalk for the first time in history on Saturday.  The Olympic torch arrived at the space station on...

Chivalry isn't dead, but it's on life support and I've just completed an experiment that doesn't bode well for its future. I spent a week on OKCupid under a female identity to see what it's like to be a woman looking for...

In 1989, 20-year-old Michael Galinsky began traveling the country to photograph people at shopping malls.  At the time, malls were central to American culture. The shopping centers provided a place for families and teen...

In September, the U.S. stock market fell when investors worried that a divided Congress would not resolve the federal budget and debt ceiling issues. But as a settlement took shape, the Dow began to rise again and today ...

Since the advent of cellular technology, we've seen some awesome phones. We've also seen some terrible phones. Remember the Motorola ROKR? How about the Pantech? We went to CNET and found the rankings of the worst cell p...

There are five fundamental pillars to a mobility marketing plan I had an interesting discussion about mobile marketing this week with Brad Wright, an investor in a company my agency is working with in the mobility space....

A retired police lieutenant from New Jersey founded a company that conducts burials at sea.     

Ann Arbor Michigan is home to a ?business incubator? known as SPARK.  SPARK makes a lot of money from investment management.  It might surprise some, but SPARK is also a non-profit, and it is one of the largest in the ...

Think there's no money in manual labor or unskilled technical work? Think again. As it turns out, there are more options than you might expect. We combed through data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to find blue...

As the Third Plenum--the third meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) - begins this weekend, China observers are anxious to see whether the country's transformation from an export-oriented ...

New ways to stay healthy whlie traveling, courtesy of 3 top hotel brands that are making healthy travel options a priority.

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore's government has blocked access to the popular adultery website Ashley Madison amid a public outcry ahead of the company's planned launch of a portal for the city-state.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government shutdown may have affected October's jobs numbers. But not how you think.     

An Oregon air cargo business, Evergreen International Airlines, notified the state of Oregon on Friday that it plans to lay off 131 employees and cease operations by month's end.

Brands are people first. Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Thus it?s not a surprise that people love their favorite smartphone brand, cringe when you mention ...

Yes, you heard us correctly. It isn't forever. But for the final quarter of the year, 2013, our company of 100 employees has eliminated all corporate meetings. We haven't eliminated meetings entirely, of course: our prod...

This year's bounty of strong initial public offerings is buoying the few mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that specialize in them.

Wall Street analysts are hammering Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan after the cable operator shed more customers than expected in the latest quarter. Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson issued a particularly caustic...