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Thousands of people are planning viewing parties for the upcoming annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and office supplies may be a sign that they are in for detailed discussions when they reconvene on... Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and ... (more)

When SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket it will secretly be carrying celebrities.

Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004.

Delta Air Lines said a glitch that appeared to show different airfares to frequent fliers happened because it was trying out a new company to power flight searches on its website.

On Saturday, a private company was set to make history by launching a capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station.

'... or are you just glad to see me?' Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in 'Hysteria' True story: Physicians in the 19th century used to provide genital massage to their female patients to treat their "hysteria," a nervous condition that today we might recognize as a plethora of more modern afflictions such as depression and anxiety.

The Branch of the Paris police force known as the Child Protection Unit, or CPU, has a hard job day in and day out.

Scientists have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.

Britain should have its own spaceport where satellites and intrepid travellers could be blasted into orbit, according to business leaders.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

Hot social network Pinterest just landed a sizable cash infusion: The company raised $100 million in a financing round by e-commerce giant Rakuten.

A few of Verizon's upcoming phones have leaked including the Galaxy S III and other top devices.

About 4,700 asteroids are close enough and big enough to pose a risk to Earth, NASA estimated Wednesday after studying data beamed back from an orbiting telescope.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko poses for a picture on board the space station in this picture released May 16.

Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western United States for Sunday's annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

Police say a 21-year-old British man has been sentenced to a year in jail for hacking into the Facebook account of someone in the United States .

The new feature debuting Wednesday draws from a Google-built database of more than 500 million people, places and commonly requested things to provide a summary of vital information alongside the main search results.