Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to abolish all income taxes — but he says he’ll have to completely destroy the “welfare system” to do it.
We often see third-party device teardowns but Samsung bucks the trend by showing breakdown of its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note. Those who say Android screens are getting larger mainly because of LTE radio size need to take a closer look at this dissection. I think they're wrong.
In what will likely be a constant back and forth between Apple and Samsung, the iPhone maker has apparently reclaimed the title of the world’s largest smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Apple has defended its ethical standards after a newspaper reported factories in China rely on child labour, 24 hour days and unsafe conditions to manufacture iPhones, iPads and computers.
Students increasingly go to college as a path toward better jobs, not to pursue particular interests. Researchers found that 85.9 percent of freshmen said they're in college "to be able to get a better job."
Samsung suffered another reversal in its patent battle with Apple Friday morning, as the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany dismissed the Korean company's second patent complaint related to 3G/UMTS technology. Last week, the same court rejected another similar Samsung complaint about 3G tech.
Some of the messages Twitter is sending about its new policy on censoring tweets in certain countries seem ambiguous at best. Perhaps the biggest piece of confusion for people trying to make sense of yesterday's announcement is Twitter's inclusion of a link with instructions on how to change your country setting. The change would appear to at least temporarily allow some users to read messages banned in their country by overriding the IP-address detection mechanism Twitter uses to assign a country to a user....
On the heels of a record quarterly profit, Apple was slammed in the press yesterday by a lengthy New York Times article highlighting the poor working conditions in the Chinese factories that make Apple products.
The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
In an interesting twist, it looks like the 360 has clawed back the lead built up by the PS3 due to the holidays in the US. Both the consoles sell 11 million each.
As Polish citizens protested against the new Censorship laws, their politicians expressed their own concerns, in their own way. (I'm sure Chuck Schumer will follow their lead tomorrow)
The largest and most sensitive telescope ever built, the Square Kilometer Array will peer deeper into the universe than ever before, shedding light on some of the universe's greatest mysteries.
It's becoming increasingly clear that Fox's programming and the radical, fear-based agenda it's setting for Republicans is now doing lasting damage to the Grand Old Party.
If Gmail's ads—especially the new, experimental image ads—are annoying you but you don't want to go all out and install a sledgehammer ad blocker like AdBlock Plus, here are a few ways to keep Gmail ads from infiltrating your inbox.
A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday. Paul Browne, NYPD's chief spokesman, said the drug was in a white bag evidently masquerading as a diplomatic pouch stamped with a poorly concocted version of the U.N. logo.
In the past year astronomers have discovered smaller planets are more numerous and diverse than anyone has expected --"Searing hot planets with iron rain, atmospheres with 1,000 mile an hour winds, planetary systems with two suns, a planet that literally skims the surface of its star once every three months," reports Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.
Republicans are worried sick about Newt Gingrich's ascendance, while Democrats are tickled pink.Yet no responsible Democrat should be pleased at the prospect that Gingrich could get the GOP nomination.
Many GOP-leaning states get more in federal funding than they contribute in federal taxes. That's the point made by a graphic that’s circulating on the Internet, titled "Red State Socialism." A reader recently pointed us to it and asked us to check it out. The chart suggests that Republicans are hypocritical for bashing the federal government and federal spending, when Republican-leaning states are reaping the lion’s share of federal dollars. The graphic emphasizes this point by showing two tables side by side. States that send more money to the federal government than they receive in federal spending are on the ...
Data needs at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have driven the development of distributed file systems such as GFS and Dynamo. The decisions and trade-offs of each can explain a lot about why cloud services work the way they do—and why they sometimes don't behave well at all.
Heather Patron, of Studio City, California, bought a Toyota Prius and noticed within days that the plastic on her windows was melting. When Toyota told her nothing was wrong with the car, she soon discovered that it was her neighbour's energy-efficient window that was the cause of the melting plastic.
Tossing that box of Lucky Charms back on the shelf at the grocery store after your kid tried to sneak it into the cart is going to be a lot harder, if House Republicans have their way. They're on the side of food companies that don't want the White House telling them to stop marketing sugary cereal and junk foods to kids. President Obama's administration has proposed voluntary guidelines to keep kids from being bombarded with cartoon characters hawking junk food and other marketing attempts to get them to get you to buy them sugary and fatty foods. In order...
Sometimes you just have to escape from a sticky situation. And when that happens, you need some kind of diversion to confuse people so they won't come after you.
Debating in Tampa, Florida in late-January, while falsely characterizing Newt Gingrich's income from his government consulting work, Mitt Romney denied that Bain did "any work with the government like Medicaid and Medicare". Now we learn that Bain, under Romney's "supervision", purchased and ran the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney's and Bain's control.
A mother's love is not only priceless but and can even prevent illness in middle age, new research claims.
Experts say that a mum who nurtures and cares for her kids can set them up in good health right, even if they've grown up in grinding poverty.
Research has already proven that kids who grow up in poor areas are more likely to suffer from chronic illness in adulthood, but US researchers were puzzled why some children bucked this trend.
A closer look at adults who'd come from a deprived background revealed that a stressful childhood increased the chances of a kid suffering illnesses such as
While internal teams at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all hard at work designing and revising new console hardware, at least one next-generation console manufacturer may implement a way to kill used game sales faster than digital downloads.