Wendy Li

Facebook will hold its annual developer conference on Thursday, which is called the biggest F8 in history. And it is expected to add more functions and features on the world's largest social network site.

A defunct atmosphere-monitoring satellite is expected to enter earth's atmosphere, break into pieces and smack down upon Earth on Friday.

In April, Amazon announced that it will support borrowing e-books from local libraries. Now it has come true - Kindle books are available at 11,000 libraries in the U.S.

Right before Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference, Thursday, rumors about what the company will announce have been posted on almost every tech news website. The fuel added to the fire of speculation right now is a post by TechCrunch that Facebook will add new feedback buttons to stories in the news feed.

Jonah Shacknai, pharmaceutical tycoon of Arizona and the founder and the chief executive of Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corp., has mailed a letter to Attorney General of California asking the latter to review the finding of the death of his long-time girlfriend Rebecca Zahau, which was ruled as suicide.

Brad Pitt, the 47-year-old actor of Moneyball Film, is in a tight spot for mentioning about his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

Brad Pitt, the 47-year-old actor of Moneyball Film, is in a tight spot for mentioning about his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

Google has opened up its popular social network site Google+ to the public after 90 days of limited field-testing.

Apple will unveil its next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, on Oct.4, according to a report.

A new type of smartphone will be launched on Sept. 29 in New York, HTC announced Tuesday. It features one accessory named Rhyme charm, a small purple cube that lights up when the phone rings because of a call or a new message, which is evidently designed to draw the attention of female.

Google Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS, the upcoming mobile Android operating system, will be compatible with both handsets and tablets, according to a post in Android Developers.

A badly decomposed body, which was found in a bushy area of Alameda County of the San Francisco Bay Area late Saturday morning, was confirmed Monday night as the remains of Michelle Le, the 26-year-old missing nursing student.

Barely a week after Miss Angola Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011, criticisms are flying thick and fast that she had falsified some documents when she applied for the beauty pageant. Naturally, people around the world are curious if Lopes is really the most beautiful woman in the world.

An announcement published on Treasure Island stated that companies responsible for 2007 San Francisco oil spill incident have agreed to pay $44.4 million as a settlement.

Almost everyday we come across some rumors about Apple’s new i-devices. However, on Monday a big bang came out. It said that Apple will surprisingly release two separate devices: one is the widely expected iPhone 5 and the other is an improved version of iPhone 4, called ‘iPhone 4-plus’.

After over 24 hours's negotiations, officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers finally reached a deal Monday with three big grocery chains, Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. This tentative agreement avoided a grocery strike involving more than 60,000 workers in Southern California.

A badly decomposed body, which is suspected as the missing nursing student Michelle Le's remains by the authority, was found in a bushy area of Alameda County of the San Francisco Bay Area late Saturday morning.

Seven states, including California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, have joined the lawsuit to stop AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA, the Justice Department said Friday. Previously, AT&T had proposed a $39 Billion deal to purchase T-Mobile.

It’s good news for Google+ (read Google Plus) developers as Google has released its first Google+ public APIs on Friday. It gives opportunities for the developers to start cooperating with the growing and hugely popular social networking Web site besides creating applications for it.

A shooting accident took place at a gas station located at 2252 Lincoln Ave in San Jose on September in the morning. A man was shot there when he was pumping gas. The perpetrator hijacked a car about a mile away from the shooting site an hour later.

University of California (UC) regents and other officials engaged in a debate on Thursday over whether they should raise the tuition in the coming years and discussed how to raise funds to support the budget. They proposed a long-term budget plan that included a tuition hike as much as 16 percent every year. Nevertheless, the debate did not reach any conclusion and they will not vote for the budget until November.

Intel ended its 30-year partnership with Microsoft, which was named the Wintel era, and has now joined hands with Google. The new partnership is a big news as it will bring new development in technology.

Samsung has filed a countersuit against Apple for patent infringement on September 16 in Australia, where the South Korean company was prohibited from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet.

According to the journal Science, a total of 11 specimens of colored feathers of dinosaur dating back to late Cretaceous were found in ambers in Canada and the colors divide gradually from black to brown.

Now many rare diseases can be treated. Rabies, for example, are very treatable. But this month, a soldier died from this disease, becoming the only one this year in the United States who died from thea treatable disease.

In 1977, the blockbuster sci-fi movie Star Wars showed a spectacular scene: the lead character Luke Skywalker walks into a binary sunset in the planet Tatooine. Thirty-four years later, such a scene has become a reality. The only difference is that the planet is not called Tatooine but is officially called Kepler-16b.

With accessory maker Case-Mate leaking the six new case designs for the new smartphone iPhone 5 on one of its web pages, people have begun guessing about how this new iPhone will really look like.

The Oakland Athletics snapped Detroit's 12-game winning streak with a 6-1 win on Thursday, halting the Tigers' march toward their first division title since 1987.

Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough contrast with President Barack Obama in the 2012 election because of his record on health care policy.