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WARNING: There are major spoilers if you haven't seen Sunday's episode "Game of Thrones" is one TV's hottest shows right now, so fans are doing whatever they can to avoid spoilers. If that's the case, fans may want to st...

"Blue's Clues" was one of the most popular children's shows on Nickelodeon throughout it's decade-long run from 1996-2006. Steve Burns, who hosted the show, became a major celebrity among the younger crowds and was even...

Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the inventor of more than 200 psychedelic compounds, died yesterday at 88. While Shulgin is best known for his work with the popular party drug Ecstasy (or MDMA), the anti-establishment scienti...

You may have heard of the crazy-immersive Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, but gaming company Valve has also been developing its own VR headset for internal use and research purposes. Pictures of the device have been...

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, police have surrounded the Square and are preventing commemorative demonstrations of any kind. Hong Lei, a representative of the Chinese Foreign Minist...

It's not easy these days to get a small-business loan. It's even harder if your skin isn't white. New academic research reveals that minority entrepreneurs are treated significantly differently (see: worse) than their wh...

In a potential course correction, Apple is opening to the idea of letting iPhone users make payments with bitcoins and other alternate currencies. The company's updated its developer guidelines to allow apps that "facili...

The new BMW i8 is the future of supercar design - sexy, yet surprisingly sensible. The post BMW's stunning hybrid supercar was first published on MoneyWeek.

The choice is yours. You can be a purist and brag about zero emissions with a battery-only powered vehicle with limited and unpredictable range which requires an expensive charging network to make it viable. Or you can c...

Jeff Weiner learned firsthand the potential pitfalls of dolling out take-it-or-leave-it input to team members. Several years ago, a LinkedIn employee told him that when Weiner would offer what he saw as casual feedback a...

If you think a talking smartphone app like Siri see-saws between useful and disappointing, IBM has news for you: Watson could be the cloud service you are looking for. IBM is investing $1 billion into its super smart tal...

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) called Tuesday for a review of counternarcotics contracts, after a Pentagon investigation found that Northrop Grumman and one of its subcontractors improperly charged the U.S. governmen...

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Richard Nixon was in the White House, his "war on drugs" was in full swing, yet Big Tobacco was secretly exploring the possibility of becoming Big Pot.

Jonathan Bush is CEO and Co-Founder of athenahealth, Inc., a cloud-based health technology and services company. In his recently published book entitled "Where does it Hurt?: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Ca...

The French campaign has focused largely on the concern that BNP, unlike other big banks accused of doing business with Sudan and Iran, might be forced to suspend a core business operation in New York as a result of the g...

Publix, AutoNation and Office Depot inched up the list of the country’s largest public companies by revenue.

The economy is shrinking -- wait, it's growing! The Institute for Supply Management -- the pros who count the widgets -- on Monday botched its monthly calculation of how much...

A federal judge sentenced Encino jeweler Bryan Shaw to five months in prison Monday for his role in an insider trading scheme with a KPMG accountant that netted him more than $1.6 million in profits over a two-year perio...

These tech executives' expertise will be crucial in helping Altman maintain the consistent results and pristine reputation YCombinator accrued under Graham's leadership.