
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 ...
Philippines accuses 16 Taiwanese of retiree scam
Philippine authorities have arrested 16 Taiwanese in connection with an online scam that mostly targeted retirees living in China and Taiwan, an ...

Feds send corrective order to Exxon after oil leak
Federal pipeline safety officials on Tuesday issued a corrective action order to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. after one of its pipelines ruptured last week ...

Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk
Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a ...

As Facebook matures, is it losing its edge?
To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online ...
Verizon denies talk of bid with AT&T for Vodafone
Verizon Communications Inc. has denied a report that it's looking to partner with AT&T Inc. to buy Vodafone Group PLC, the British cellphone company ...
Report: Apple to release updated phone this summer
Apple is set for a possible summer launch of the next iPhone, rather than a fall launch like the last two models, according to a report Tuesday in The ...

Google and privacy: 6 EU countries take action
Google's new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul practices they say ...

Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to ...
Feds offer new hope for avoiding pesky 'robocalls'
There may one day soon be another way to fight those annoying prerecorded phone pitches known as robocalls. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday ...
Japan moves to revamp troubled power industry
Japan's Cabinet has approved a proposal to revamp its troubled electricity industry and foster more competition by obliging utilities to split power ...

Apple apologizes in China after service criticism
Apple apologized to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic ...

Oily ducks found following Arkansas oil spill
The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live ...

Tech firms bumping up perks to recruit, retain
Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay ...

Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms
It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during ...

3 feared dead as Alaska Troopers copter crashes
An Alaska State Trooper helicopter carrying a trooper, a pilot for the agency and a rescued snowmobiler crashed in the south-central part of the ...

Paralyzed ex-athlete's foundation helping others
As he rolls through the front door of the sprawling Claremont Club fitness center and shouts a friendly hello here and there, for just a moment it's ...
Calif. officials found flaws in parolee trackers
Thousands of ankle monitors that track the movements of paroled sex offenders and other criminals were ordered removed and replaced by California ...

Caribbean nations search for oil amid spill fears
The turquoise waters that have long brought treasure seekers to the Caribbean now are drawing a new kind of explorer as countries across the region ...

Freezing weather wipes out German flea circus
An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany. Flea circus director Robert Birk says ...
South Africa: 5 killed in helicopter crash
Five South African air force members died in the weekend crash of a helicopter that was patrolling in an anti-rhino poaching operation, the South ...

End of the line for Roadrunner supercomputer
It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $121 ...