It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry--OK Go just ditched EMI--and YouTube and BitTorrent have changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age.

A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google's future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company will have to bear the consequences if it stops censoring its Chinese search site.

The House overwhelmingly backed a privileged resolution offered by GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio). The House voted Thursday to open an ethics investigation into what and when House Democratic leaders knew of allegations of sexual harassment against former Rep. Massa

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HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting one other so close, they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes.

It is older than Chuck Norris and was laid down in a small Scottish distillery the year before the outbreak of the Second World War. A dram of this 70 year old single malt will set you back over £300 (US$ 450)

In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet.

A woman is in critical condition after driving her SUV off of a bridge in Long Beach this morning. The 23 year old woman was rescued from the Los Angeles River after being submerged for nearly 30 minutes.

Behold a star from the second generation of generation of stars after the Big Bang, something scientists have been seeking for a while. Its unique make-up may prove that our galaxy developed by cannibalizing dwarf galaxies.

PARIS is the most expensive city to live in according to the latest survey from Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company to The Economist. The survey assesses ...

A piece of music that is literally stitched into the fabric of American blue-collar culture, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA", is, according to right-wing pundit Glenn Beck, "anti-American" and "propaganda" that people must "wake up" from. Huh? -=W/ VIDEO=-

What’s the big deal here? Of all the things that humans eat, there are only two or three existing in nature made by nature just to be food. There's breast milk (of all varieties). There's honey. And there are...probably a couple others that I can't think of right now (Twinkies, maybe? Those are excreted by something, right?)

Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center, claims that guns are unregulated for safety. What he really means, though, is that he believes they have become far too capable to be entrusted to civilian hands.

Hollywood lobbyists are trying to launch an assault on Internet providers and fast track tougher anti-piracy legislation in the United States. Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, says the industry has been discussing these plans with President Obama outside of the public’s eye.

Oprah Winfrey called Sidibe a "true American Cinderella on the threshold of a brilliant new career." The next day, Howard Stern attacked Sidibe, calling her the "most enormous, fat black chick I've ever seen," and said Winfrey is a liar for "telling an enormous woman the size of a planet that she's going to have a career." Who's right?

5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They Resemble

One article argues that their attitudes are what's needed in a new economy, but another thinks they can't adapt. Which do you agree with?

A Review and more details and information on the new Playstation Move... maybe better than the wii mote?

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So this was obvious: Place a few dividers into an otherwise normal front-loading washing machine, and separate your reds from your whites without washing a whole separate load.

An experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact.

For those who have misguidedly failed to develop an Armageddon plan, it's not too late. Here are the 6 phases you would probably go through if you were the only human left on Earth.

An American architect has broken his own Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards.Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards to create a replica of the Venetian Macau, which is on display in its namesake luxury hotel and casino. Berg took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete his model inside the Venetian....

Ladies, we're sure you can relate. If you're sick of guys talking to your boobs instead of your face, here's a way to make them (almost) look you in the eye ...Marion Cotillard, who won Best Actress for 2007 movie La Vie en Rose, promotes Forehead Tiatties - a device designed to divert male eyes away from ladies' chests.

Failings by Lehman executives and its auditor led to the collapse of the bank which unleashed the worst of the financial crisis, according to a report by a U.S. bankruptcy court-appointed examiner.

Does Chatroulette, the popular video chat site, lose its appeal if it loses its anonymity? Chatroulette offers a welcome break from the daily digital footprints I leave across the Web on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz, where every comment, tweet and “like” is tied back to my real-world identity.

A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date...

We asked Apple PR to help you plan your day tomorrow, and they responded:"Customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12."There you have it. 5:30 am PT, 8:30 am ET, and for those of you who happen to have US credit cards & shipping addresses but are currently elsewhere here's the global clock!

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, & it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network ...

The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration's decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.