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The IRS wants over $60 million in tax shelter promoter penalties from John Larson. They are not penalties that can be contested in Tax Court. The requirement is that the penalties be paid and a claim for refund made.

(Reuters) – Automotive suppliers and automakers are expanding alliances to develop self-driving car technology that can serve multiple automakers, as the race to put such vehicles on the road separates companies that c...

GUEST: No billion-dollar machine could replace a doctor. But a $25 machine can tell you when you need one. In 1996, the ER at Cook County Hospital of Chicago used an algorithm to determine when a patient with chest pain ...

GUEST: In 2006, the average early-stage seed round for a startup was just under $600,000. A decade later, this has peaked at $2.2 million. In the era of mega-rounds, mega-valuations, over-funding, and mega-burn it is bec...

Naughty America was tucked away in the back of the cavernous South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES 2017, the big tech trade show last week in Las Vegas. There were no signs or images to advertise the near-...

Lower level and middle mangers are key to employee engagement and customer experience. Here's a simple and cost-effective way that they, their teams and their organsiations can help them learn, improve and develop and ho...

Razer specializes in being daring when it comes to entertaining gamers. Its Project Ariana, shown off at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week, is a case in point. With Ariana, Razer takes a PC game an...

GUEST: No one enjoys paying their electricity bill. It keeps going up and up, with a bunch of new nonsense fees thrown on top every few years. What’s worse is that many parts of the world still rely on dirty fossil fue...

One of the best week’s of the gaming year is underway. Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 has started, and the event will go on until the night of Saturday, January 14. AGDQ is a marathon of speedruns, which has player’s ...

Safaa Latif works at her loom. Credit: Elizabeth MacBride CAIRO-The air is rank with the smell of trash in Cairo's Garbage City. But behind a gate and at the end of a long walkway leading away from the alleys lined with ...

Three years ago this week, Major League Baseball's labor relations faced a crossroads. Neutral arbitrator Frederic Horowitz had justupheld the one-year suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez for viol...

It might be the last thing you'd dream of to benefit from machine learning, but your bed is where you spend a third of your life. If it can help you sleep better, it has advantages for the hours of the day when you're no...

FEATURE: After a year in which the internet turned global politics upside down, Emmanuel Macron is trying to use it to strike a new political balance in France. The former Minister of the Economy quit the Socialist gover...

Click & Boat, which describes itself as an Airbnb for boats, has raised €1 million ($1.05 million) in funding from Paris-based Olma Fund. The French sharing economy startup recently acquired its competitor Sailsharing ...

So who were the big influencers of CMOs in 2016? To find out, I turned to Leadtail, a leading social media insights research company, who tracks over 1,300 North American CMOs who are active on Twitter and analyzed over ...

Amid the hustle and bustle of Vive's CES booth, there's a war zone. It's a hellish battlefield in which three brave brothers are making a last stand against a hive mind of silent soldiers, uniformly marching forward. The...

Say goodbye to your remote. During a test of the Dish Hopper 3 using Amazon Alexa at CES 2017, it became obvious to me that all of the buttons, settings, adjustments, and tweaks we do to our televisions and to watch movi...

Chinese tech company Changhong unveiled a new smartphone, the H2, that can scan objects for molecular authenticity using a technology. I saw a live hands-on demo of the smartphone’s sensor working at CES 2017, where th...

Coway makes Airmega air filtration systems that suck the allergens out of your home’s air. And now it’s making them easier to control with the integration of Amazon Alexa voice commands, starting in mid-January. On t...

Phil McKinney’s job as CEO of Cable Labs is to lead the cable TV industry forward into new technologies that can help with the delivery and adoption of cable TV services. The company is the research arm of the cable TV...