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It's the train that Muggles have been waiting for. New details have emerged about the upcoming attractions at Universal Studios' Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and apparently the Hogwarts Express ride is going to be ki...

Substance.com has put together an interesting infographic showing how Americans spent money on illegal drugs from 2000 to 2010. The data comes from a study by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Office of National Drug Co...

German engineering firm Festo has built a robotic arm system that learns new motions much in the same way a young baby does, reports New Scientist. Originally built in 2010, the arms were previously unable to move withou...

Iowa-based startup Dwolla has made a name for itself with its rather painless approach to sending money over the Internet — sending someone $10 or less is free. Sending more than $10 costs $0.25. That's all there is to...

Investors of every stripe have been chasing retail condominiums in New York, fueling sales prices in the city's tourist districts and in neighborhoods where new residential developments are taking shape.

Mick Jagger’s model-turned-designer girlfriend L’Wren Scott, 49, killed herself in a Manhattan apartment Monday, police have confirmed. Her assistant reportedly found her hanging by a scarf inside the Eighth Floor ap...

"The Lion King" stunned Broadway at year's end as the No. 1 earner for the first time since 2003, bumping off the champ, "Wicked."     

Airbnb might spread its wings and become more than just site for renting vacation homes for a weekend getaway. "Our business isn't [renting] the house," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says in an interview with Fast Company. "Ou...

T-minus 14 days until open enrollment closes for ObamaCare. It is crunch time for thousands as they decide if they want to enroll, and ultimately how much of a tax credit to accept in order to determine their first premi...

Accepting payments on a mobile phone -- or paying on one -- really isn't that hard anymore.     

The Gazelle Project. That's what Amazon called its initiative to cajole book publishers into giving them better deals. According to The New Yorker, CEO Jeff Bezos said “that Amazon should approach these small publishe...

The fashion world knows the names "Versace" and "Prada," and now it can add Josie Ervin to that list. She is from Birmingham, Mich., has her own fashion company, and is just 10 years old.

For those at the low end of the hourly wage scale, even meeting basic household needs can be a stretch, and roads out of poverty are scarce.     

In trading on Monday, shares of Yahoo! (YHOO) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 4.0%.  Year to date, Yahoo! has lost about 3.3% of its value.

Sport Chalet posts its most profitable quarter in seven years, a sign the sporting goods retailer may be nearing a turnaround.If you're an outdoors enthusiast or weekend warrior, chances are you're a fan of Sport Chalet ...

The data out of China so far has been disappointing, and has prompted economists to cut their 2014 GDP forecasts. Bank of America's Ting Lu was one of the economists that lowered his 2014 GDP forecast to 7.2%, from 7.6%....

The operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has left the complex cleanup to a poorly trained work force that has made some dangerous missteps.     

General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra apologized again Monday for the automaker's handling of a recall of 1.6 million cars with potentially defective ignition switches, adding that a supplier has…

(Reuters) - Britain's Vodafone has agreed to buy Spanish cable operator Ono for 7.2 billion euros ($10.03 billion) in a deal that is set to be announced on Monday, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Yahoo-ABC News Network’s news sites can take a healthy traffic hit and still lead in monthly pageviews. On desktop, at least. According to a news release today, the news giant says it’s dominating in desktop traffic ...

Drop the ruler and grab a mouse: hiring, evaluating, and managing teachers takes another step into the digital age.     

The Wevorce team is still experimenting with the optimal video technology; currently, it's a mash-up of a few different services, none of which are working perfectly.