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Last week, CBS forced CNET to rescind its "Best of CES" award that was originally intended for Dish's Hopper DVR that let you skip commercials. CBS is suing Dish over the gadget, and as a result it blocked its own tech p...

The military has stealth to hide from radar, but planes, boats and even humvees still leave infrared and magnetic signatures. The problem: all the electrical systems hooked up to all that metal. Recently, a team of resea...

"People really underestimate how important hiring decisions are at startups," says Elli Sharef, co-founder of HireArt, a recruiting firm serving San Francisco's rising tech community. "If you're a team of two founders an...

A petition on Change.org is calling on Victoria's Secret (LTD) to create a special line of "Survivor" bras for breast cancer survivors who have undergone mastectomies. Allana Maiden, who launched the petition drive, tell...

Deal announced late on Friday means only company formerly known as BAA will only be responsible for four airports The company formerly known as BAA is to sell Stansted airport to Manchester Airports Group for £1.5bn. Th...

McDonald's has launched a new campaign for the Big Mac, one of its flagship products. The Big Mac has been on McD's menu, but it hasn't highlighted the product specifically in years. Business Insider told you first that ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a five-year high on Friday on Wall Street on hopes a damaging stand-off over the US debt ceiling will at least be delayed.

Network that boosted re-election bid re-tooled to generate support for action on guns, immigration, climate and economy Barack Obama has launched a new digital campaign that aims to harness the massive database of suppor...

Bloomberg News' Alex Cuadros & David de Jong have uncovered eight hidden billionaires that no one knew existed. These people have their fortunes in publicly-traded companies and live in Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Spain, a...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal...

This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license. The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence and risky behavio...

As we work, we sit more than we do anything else. Excessive sitting, defined as nine hours a day, has been called a lethal activity. So four years ago I switched one meeting from a coffee meeting to a walking-meeting, an...

Hollywood's latest starlet is gazing enigmatically into the camera lens with her huge melting brown eyes, framed with lashes long enough to catch snowflakes. She radiates an air of serenity amid the flashbulbs and satell...

Gosh, those crazy electric cars. They're so different and confusing, eh? We've now come across a new and thus-far unparalleled example of just how far people will go to avoid dealing with the realities of electric cars. ...

John C. Dvorak hopes the time is coming when people revolt against social networks.

The supermarkets are not the victims in this scandal - with false smells and tastes they've made us lose touch with what we eat In Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd it was initially cats in pies; later, because all drama n...

Amazon's new app allows songs and albums to be purchased and downloaded directly onto the iPhone -- a development that could put pressure on Apple to lower its prices, writes Quentin Fottrell.Also in today's Personal Fin...

If car manufacturers really want to have something that resembles an app store, they are going to have to put their heads together and play it smart. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way of doing i...

WASHINGTON

When President Barack Obama steps up the inaugural platform on Monday, everything will look expertly choreographed. The stage at the Capitol will look brilliant, a huge crowd will watch his recite the oath of office, he'...

In surprise move, GOP lawmakers show first signs of backing down over debt crisis by giving Congress time to pass a budget Republicans showed the first sign of backing down over the looming debt ceiling crisis on Friday,...