Reuters - NBC Universal is ending production on its low-rated daytime talk show "In the Loop With iVillage."

Reuters - MySpace, the online social networking site owned by News Corp, is in talks with music companies to launch an advertising-supported free music service, according to several reports on Wednesday.

Reuters - Labor disputes, whether real or merely predicted, have put a crimp in Marvel Entertainment's goal of releasing two films -- or maybe even one -- next year.

Iconic joshua tree has fallen... many fine photographs centering on the national park and lots of information about the trees are included on this fan site. via "Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really... pressure... and time..." -- Morgan Freeman's character Red in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" metaphorically explaining why his friend Andy escaped from prison

"Bill Blackbeard is a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American newspapers. This major collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, [spans] the years 1894 to 1996... "Finding that libraries were discarding bound newspapers after microfilming, he established the SFACA in 1968 as a non-profit organizat
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Filed under: GDC We wanted a bloodbath, but unfortunately Destroy All Developers! is more or less a clever way to promote networking among GDC attendees. You play the game by collecting as many business cards and using them to solve various missions. Yep, we're hooked on the idea already. The game began on Tuesday and runs through Thursday, with winners announced on Friday. We'll keep you updated on the results.Gallery: GDC08: Destroy All Develop
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Filed under: GDC "I think we found a bug," mocked an audience member during an embarrassing lapse in the presentation, one of countless hiccups that marred Emotiv's would-be grand unveiling of the "world's first consumer 'Brain Computer Interface'" (not "Brain Control Interface," as the press invite alluringly stated). Spunky CEO Nam Do kicked things off with a burst of energy, firing off adjectives like "super cool" and "uber-cool" to describe h
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Actor and writer Owen Wilson is going back to work after a reported suicide attempt last summer.

Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsopp, has died aged 100.

Amy Winehouse is to stage her first public performance since entering rehab at the Brit Awards.

A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies

Swiss police confirmed Tuesday that two paintings stolen from a Zurich art museum last week were found in good condition Monday in an unlocked...

A school bus and several other vehicles crashed in southwestern Minnesota Tuesday, killing four students and forcing the first-arriving...

Fidel Castro's resignation Tuesday ends the formal reign of a man who, after seizing power in a 1959 revolution, outlasted not only nine...

AMD's 8000 series in the wild UK PC supplier Mesh has jumped the gun on AMD's official announcement and begun offering desktops based on the chip maker's three-core Phenom 8000-series processors.?

Intellectual booty Analysis The story behind the story is always more interesting, somehow, than the story itself; and the story behind last week's Mobile World congress wasn't just the obvious stuff about backhaul capacity. Instead, people were mumbling furtively about piracy - intellectual piracy, that is. You know, like intellectual property, but acquired by devious means.?

Defunct format sell-off eBay said today it expects to an increase in listings for HD DVD products following Toshiba's announcement yesterday that it is going to ditch its optical disc format.?

But remains functional, company says Symantec is working on a patch a bug that generates errors in corporate security protection updates. Workarounds enabling virus signature definition updates to Symantec Endpoint Protection are available, but a more comprehensive fix is still in testing.?