Hospital group says 'alarm fatigue' can be deadly
Constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the critically ill have "desensitized" hospital workers who sometimes ignore ...
Gazprom, Shell to develop Arctic oil fields
Energy giants Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have agreed to jointly develop offshore Arctic oil fields, Russian media reported Monday.
Ericsson to buy Microsoft's TV software unit
Ericsson, the Swedish maker of telecommunications equipment, has agreed to buy Microsoft's Mediaroom business, which makes the software that powers ...
Domain name group plans satellite office in China
The agency that oversees Internet domain names says it will open a satellite office in China, home of the world's largest Internet population.
Former Rutgers AD Pernetti getting $1.2M, iPad
Former Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti is getting $1.2 million in salary, plus an iPad, car allowance and more than two years of health ...
BP to call 1st witness at trial over Gulf spill
BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of ...
Hackers target Israeli websites, fail to disrupt
An international cyber attack campaign against Israeli government websites on Sunday failed to cause serious disruptions despite dire threats from the ...
Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future
Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic ...
CA hikers' woes showed danger of urban wilderness
In Southern California, where urban sprawl meets pristine wilderness, one can stand on a backwoods mountain trail and be so close to the city as to ...
Federal lawsuit filed over Arkansas oil spill
Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal ...
Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
Facebook barges into Google turf with Home
Facebook Home, the new software that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially ...
Facebook tweaks Android phones to build new 'Home'
With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook is trying to prove that a company doesn't have to make a smartphone or operating system to define how ...
NKorea's Twitter account hacked amid tension
Hackers apparently broke into at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites Thursday, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula.
British Library sets out to archive the Web
Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the ...
Facebook moves to home screens of Android phones
Facebook is unveiling a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, on the phone's home ...
Ancient site unearthed in Iraqi home of Abraham
British archaeologists said Thursday they have unearthed a sprawling complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical ...
Arkansas AG sets deadline for Exxon documents
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has set an April 10 deadline for ExxonMobil to produce documents connected to the company's oil spill in ...
PC, tablet, phone shipments to hit 2.4B in 2013
Research firm Gartner says it expects worldwide PC, tablet and mobile phone shipments to reach 2.4 billion units this year, up 9 percent from 2012.
Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this ...
Many young women live with men first, marry later
Nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren't married. That's the finding of a government survey released Thursday
Obama fundraises, catches Keystone heat in Calif.
President Barack Obama is raising money for the Democratic Party in California, eager to weaken his Republican opposition in Congress even as he ...
EMarketer: Facebook US mobile ad revenue soaring
A research firm says it expects Facebook's mobile ad revenue to soar this year, hitting nearly $1 billion a year after the company started to splice ...
Analyst: 60-inch Apple iTV to launch this year
It's no secret that Apple wants to get into the living room by making its own TV set, and there have been plenty of rumors and reports about how and ...
Scientists find possible hint of dark matter
It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but ...
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