IBT Staff Reporter

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland set a record for the most intense beam of particles ever fired and come a step closer to confirming the Higgs boson, otherwise known as the God particle.

The New York International Auto Show in 2011 will run from Friday April 22nd until Sunday May 1st at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Saturday April 23rd.

Tenet Healthcare Corp's board rejected the latest $3.3 billion offer from Community Health Systems , saying the price grossly undervalues the company.

Two days after Amazon's cloud hosting service was taken down, company engineers are reporting that things are starting to look up.

LOS ANGELES - Charlie Sheen now has his own mobile app.

President Barack Obama said Thursday that bringing change had been more difficult than a lot of us expected, after a group donors interrupted a campaign speech to protest in song the detention of the soldier that allegedly released a trove of government cables which eventually were obtained and disseminated by Wikileaks.

A virtual forest sprouting on Times Square's renowned billboards, 1,000 free rain barrels for gritty city backyards and a parade of clean energy vehicles including hybrid garbage trucks are all helping New Yorkers go green for Earth Day on Friday.

Greenpeace says a number of tech giants have dirty data centers, which consume large amounts of energy from non-renewable sources.

Renault F1 driver Robert Kubica, who almost lost his right hand in a life-threatening rally accident, said he would leave the hospital in the next ten days.

Manchester United right back Rafael is fit enough to feature against Everton on Saturday, while Darren Fletcher has recovered from his virus to return to training.

Anonymous is finally speaking out against speculation that it was responsible for the recent issues facing Sony's Playstation Network.

Due to unprecedented foreclosures and price declines, many investors are flocking to remove the area's massive glut of homes on the market.

An team of researchers has discovered a way to make a polymer that heals itself, which could revolutionize coatings.

The Nissan LEAF is the first of four 100% electric vehicles Nissan has announced, part of our worldwide commitment to becoming a leader in the effort to build a sustainable, low-carbon society.

U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada - facing the possibility of public hearings and legal proceedings stemming from an affair made public in 2009 and ramifications leading to alleged conflict-of-interest violations by a former aide - said late Thursday he would resign, effective May 3.

Rising sales of smartphones and tablets boosted profit at touchscreen chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor and Synaptics Inc even as their traditionally strong PC market continued to slow down.

In its public filing to the FCC yesterday, the company admits that its network has been increasing constrained as more and more high-bandwidth devices have connected to its network.

Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets slavishly copied its products.

When Amazon.com and eBay report quarterly results next week, investors will try to determine how well the e-commerce rivals' expensive fight for shoppers is paying off.

POSCO's <005490.KS> annual earnings may remain under pressure due to fragile demand and high raw materials costs after the world's No. 3 steelmaker missed expectations with a 36 percent fall in quarterly profit.

Korean electronics giant Samsung fired back at Apple's patent lawsuit, filing its own claim in South Korea, Germany and Japan.

Apple has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans.

The yuan ended at a fresh record high on Friday as the central bank continued to allow the currency to rise to help fight imported inflation, but onshore traders remained convinced it would not resort to any one-off revaluation despite rumors overseas.

Verizon Communications Inc gained wireless subscribers with Apple Inc's iPhone, but the effect on its financials failed to impress investors, who sent its shares down 2.3 percent.

U.S. Sen. John McCain - a strong proponent of additional U.S. military action in Libya - visited rebels in the city of Benghazi on Friday, calling them his 'heroes.'

Online coupon service Groupon has hired a Google executive to be its new chief operating officer, as Google began rolling out a new service aimed directly at Groupon's thriving business.

Canon will likely report an 8 percent fall in first-quarter operating profit and lower its full-year forecast, reflecting the impact from Japan's devastating earthquake, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.

Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> said it could take until the end of the year before production has fully recovered to levels before the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11 devastated Japan's northeast, disrupting the supply of key parts.

Army goes to Android to create tactical specific applications; which can communicate across a spectrum of devices.