t’s easy to look at a laptop, an iPod, or a laser printer as nothing more than a tool to get work done with or to while away your free time on, but these and many other high-tech devices didn’t fall off a tree. They emerged following years...

My faulty thermometer is running again,” was the message on Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad’s weblog last Saturday. Any reader following the fate of this troubled young writer would have understood immediately, even without the attached...

Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old. In a rare success, forces loyal to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki have largely quieted the city, to the initial...

FORTUNE has a thought-provoking interview with Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, who says American society is not ogranised to promote innovation. Asked “where innovative leadership could move the needle”, he responded

Legendary musician Lou Reed has gotten hitched. The Velvet Underground singer-guitarist, 66, and his longtime love, performance artist Laurie Anderson, 60, wed in a “small, non-denominational ceremony in Boulder, Colorado, April 12,” his...

A commonly used chemotherapy drug causes healthy brain cells to die off long after treatment has ended and may be one of the underlying biological causes of the cognitive side effects – or “chemo brain” – that many cancer patients experience....

Internet leader Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it saw no impact from a weakening U.S. economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an online advertising slump. Google’s...

From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve found myself in possession of the “Infocom Drive” — a complete backup of Infocom’s shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I’ve ever...

Five New Hampshire National Guard military police were wounded over the weekend during an attack on their base in Baghdad. The National Guard says four of the military police officers from the 237th Military Police Company were treated and are back on...

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Leading the pack of smelly looking ladies is the fashion-forward, hygiene-backward twosome, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The cherubic-child-actors-turned-boho-chic-Starbucks-guzzlers rarely bother dragging a comb through their...