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Have you seen this photo of someone using an Oculus, the virtual reality gizmo whose maker was just bought by Facebook for $2 billion? The photo has been everywhere. Bloomberg used it for their segment yesterday. And GQ ...

I can still remember when I was a mere lad of around 5 or 6 trying to get the better of my much larger, older brothers in essentially anything. From sports to games of cards and on and on I tried my best but rarely could...

The official demise of bitcoin in China has arrived. The People's Bank of China is mandating banks to close by April 15 all accounts opened by operators of websites that trade, essentially forcing all bitcoin exchanges i...

The wisdom about divorce in America goes something like this: the sexual revolution sparked a sharp rise in the divorce rate from 1950 until about 1980, leading to the famous formulation that half of all American marriag...

Hardware startups don't nearly get enough attention. Companies that build apps and Web services get all the attention but more and more companies are starting to build physical products you can buy and use.  In light of...

The Kismet II, a brand new 308-foot megayacht complete with elevator, helipad, and spa is set to launch in September of this year. The yacht, currently under construction at Lurssen Shipyard in Bremen, Germany, will hav...

I can finally die in peace. I just beat 2048, the game I've been addicted to all week. It's seriously been detracting from my work. The only real strategy you need to know is that you need to keep your highest tile in a ...

Gold has profited from its allure as a safe haven from turmoil in emerging markets and elsewhere early this year, particularly as tension over Ukraine and the Crimea region continues. Prices have been lifted from about $...

Andreessen Horowitz just announced it has closed its fourth fund at a sizable $1.5 billion. In total over its lifetime, the firm has raised $4.15 billion. While Andreessen Horowitz’s exact plans for the fund are unclea...

Realtor.com ranked the top 10 markets for first-time home buyers, using five factors to judge the best.

I read an article last week that had apparently upset a good many people. It was from the BBC and called "Can Video Games Ever Be Funny?" and offended a large number of gamers who had played Portal and the Stanley Parabl...

Today I'm really excited to announce that we've launched a very cool new section to our popular Idea Lab vertical called Idea Lab: Impact, which is being sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of Amer...

Two Android apps called Songs and Prized secretly mine Litecoin and Dogecoin without informing users according to a new security report by researchers at Trend Micro. Songs has been downloaded one million to five millio...

Taco Bell taps 'Ronald McDonald' in television ads to promote new breakfast menu

This isn't the kind of billion-dollar year Toys 'R' Us was hoping for. The giant toy retailer said Wednesday it lost more than $1 billion last year and its sales...

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A site called Oublio sends queries to Reddit once an hour in order to identify the most popular image being shared on the site at that time. Once identified, Oublio makes the image and accompanying caption available for ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Court documents that often precede a lawsuit have been filed by a U.S. law firm on behalf of a relative of a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.     

Senators John D. Rockefeller IV, and Richard Blumenthal said Target's failure to heed warning signs of incursions by cybercriminals was the fault of its top executives and board.     

By Richard Weizel MILFORD, Conn., March 26

The payment settles a lawsuit arising out of troubled mortgage-backed securities the bank cobbled together and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the run-up to the financial crisis.     

My grandfather, whose formal schooling never exceeded the third grade, was one of the wisest men I ever knew. Laboring from dark to dark on a Missouri farm as a boy and enduring the Great Depression as a young husband an...