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When "X-Men: Days of Future Past" comes out this weekend, the X-Men will take on mutant-hunting robots known as the Sentinels. For the film's production designer John Myhre it was important to bring the killer machines t...

With a sweeping new policy for medical marijuana, Canada is aiming for a market of large-scale -- and highly regulated -- growers.

Every city in the world has a unique skyline. But which is the best? International building database Emporis attempts to quantify skylines by looking at the number and height of buildings in the world's major cities. The...

MEXICO CITY -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has found a golden opportunity in Mexico: in only a year, the retail chain has managed to crack e-commerce, a way of doing business that scarcely existed in the country befo...

After a high-flying career that saw movie stuntman Pascal Whelan work on some of Hollywood’s biggest movies, including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Live and Let Die," Whelan called it quits and headed off ...

Students at Archbishop Murphy High School are taking a hands-on approach to scientific exploration. They're launching rockets into the air and probing underwater with robots.

Apple's App Store is filled with more than one million iPhone and iPad apps.   Chances are, even those who can't put down their phone for more than five minutes haven't sifted through a fraction of what the App Store ha...

DuckDuckGo, the Google search competitor, has set out to make its office "smart," thanks to the help of home automation company Zonoff. What makes DuckDuckGo unique is that unlike Google, DuckDuckGo doesn't track your c...

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see report...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a closer look at what private equity firms charge their investors.

I found this 1917 advertisement for swastika jewelry while browsing through the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. The text reads in part: To the wearer of swastika will come from the four winds of heaven good luck, long...

A billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam, the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, was executed Saturday, state television reported.

Many investors said they welcomed the stability that came with this week's military coup in Thailand but would sell if political violence worsened severely.

Ecstatic football fans unable to celebrate a World Cup win with real-time Tweets, or post "selfies" of themselves from inside stadiums. Or worse, emergency calls blocked by jammed cellphone towers unable to handle the vo...

Finely textured beef, dubbed "pink slime" by critics, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat--just in time for Memorial Day barbecues.

(Reuters) - Upscale department store operator Nordstrom Inc is reaching out to potential buyers for its store-branded credit cards, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The World Trade Organization sided with the U.S. in a dispute with China over duties on imported American automobiles, the latest in a series of victories that the Obama administration hopes will halt Beijing's use of qu...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research group believes it has a solution for the problem of monitoring the body's vital signs in zero gravity, and it's as easy as swallowing a pill.

Cupertino-based Apple INC. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is attempting to get a permanent U.S. sales injunction on several Samsung Electronics products, claiming that they infringe on Apple's patents. Apple asked the U.S. District Cour...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research group believes it has a solution for the problem of monitoring the body's vital signs in zero gravity, and it's as easy as swallowing a…

Guest Post: Focusing on malware detection as a frontline cybersecurity strategy puts IT security teams in a never-ending game of cat and mouse.

I got my hands on an early version of Interaxon's brainwave reading head band, the Muse--and I think I've experienced what is the most important wearable of the year.