U.S. crisis underscores global links

The sharp declines this month in many stock markets worldwide proves that not all that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. That city is among those areas of the United States hard hit by a slumping housing market. Combine that with a strong global appetite in recent years for...

Print Media continues to make moves in line with Tech

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - McClatchy Co., the nation's third largest newspaper publisher, will begin providing international news coverage and commentary to online powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in a partnership that further underscores the media industry's shifting balance of power.

Duke U. Patents Mind-Controlled Weapons

Give lab monkeys mind-controlled weapons and they might be gunning for some payback! Personally, I see a wide, wonderful future in mind-controlled prosthetics; weaponry is not the first thing to come to mind with this sort of thing, but I guess for some..."Work on...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Sets Lifespan

"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said it will spend all its assets within 50 years of them both dying, as the trustees want to focus the foundation's work in the 21st century. In a statement posted on the charity's Web site, dated November 29, the foundation said:...