Multimillionaire pop star Justin Timberlake will portray fictional Hooks player Carlton Garrett in the upcoming movie "The Open Road."

Cinco Ranch's Briana Gilbreath and Cy-Fair's Nneka Ogwumike are two of the 48 boys and girls chosen from 2,500 nominees this season for the McDonald's All-America team.

Commuters heading home from work today can expect slick streets and scattered showers following a heavy storm that moved through the Houston area late this afternoon.

The US court order shuttering the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave new life to leaked documents the bank was working to suppress

The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. It records your whole life in an active buffer until it detects your heart rate going up. Then it really turns on, and records whatever's making you excited until you tell it to stop, so you can check it out later, Cloverfield-style. Or green, poorly lit raccoon-eye-style of a night you actually didn't want to remember. Or...okay there's about
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Those of you still on Windows XP (quite a few of you) are probably on XP because you don't feel the need to upgrade to Vista. But if you're still into getting some new features and bug fixes for your OS, check out the release candidate of Service Pack 3. RC2 means it's still not quite there, but it's close. [Computerworld]

Remember how I told you that the Pentagon had plans to blow up an errant spy satellite with a missile? Well, it's happening, and it might just be happening tonight if the weather clears up. Blowin' stuff up, hot diggity damn! The downside? This operation in glorified fireworks is gonna cost taxpayers somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million. That makes it less fun sounding, doesn't it? Yes, with each missile costing around $10 million and tw
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Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs HCL managed to get our attention when it announced its MiLeap X series laptop and Y series tablet/UMPC last month, and now thanks to the Tech Ticker blog we have better look at the more interesting of the two, the MiLeap Y. As you can see above, however, the device is unsurprisingly a little less sleek looking than it was in the polished press photos, but still far from an eyesore. What's more, while it didn't d
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Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Intel's gunning hard for the high end of the gaming market with the new Skulltrail platform, but nothing about it is cheap -- the D5400XS mobo at the heart of the platform costs $649 to start, and the flagship "fastest ever" config features two $1,499 3.2GHZ QX9775 processors. Still, if you're a hardcore gamer, you know you want it, so the folks over at Techgage have put together a handy guide to building a Skulltrai
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A judge put the brakes on Britney Spears' driving-without-a-license case Wednesday after her lawyers said they don't believe the troubled pop star is capable of resolving the matter.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out Maine's law taxing the Internet sales of tobacco products, a statute intended to keep cigarettes out of minors' hands by regulating transportation companies.

As Barack Obama solidifies his lead, Hillary Clinton is shaking things up with a revamped message and sharper digs at her party's front man. In a speech today, Clinton maintained her campaign is moving forward, despite suffering 10 consecutive losses.

A judge put the brakes on Britney Spears' driving-without-a-license case Wednesday after her lawyers said they don't believe the troubled pop star is capable of resolving the matter.

That famous saint named Patrick will have his green-drenched party this year, but it's unclear when the guests are supposed to arrive.

Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Sports/GTs, Aston Martin, UKMake no mistake about it, the V8 Vantage is an unspeakably beautiful car. Sure, it looks like every other contemporary Aston Martin, but it's arguably the best application of the theme. Unfortunately its performance falls a little short of some of its competitors. So while we wait for news from Aston Martin on its tantalizing V12 Vantage RS concept hitting production, Paramount Perform
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Filed under: Ford, Earnings/Financials, UAW/UnionsFord is making significant strides to turn its North American operations around. In 2006, it was able to cut almost 34,000 workers from its payroll after one round of buyouts and is looking to cut even more of its workforce this year through another payoff program that's being offered to 54,000 UAW-represented workers.While it's mortgaged everything in its arsenal to keep afloat through the tough
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The oldest known oil painting, dating from 650 A.D., has been found in caves in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, according to a team of Japanese, European and U.S. scientists. The discovery reverses a common perception that the oil painting, considered a...