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A report on the other relevant cases of patient information breach that took place in the U.S. in the recent past.

Scientists have discovered an “invisible” planet for the first time by observing how its gravity affects the other planet in the system.

Astronomers believe they have found an invisible planet, one that was never glimpsed before, revolving around its orbit in irregular intervals.

United States recorded the second hottest summer this year, and the hottest in 75 years, government weather experts said Thursday.

A medical privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. has led to the public posting of medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, which includes names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, as confirmed by the hospital.

A massive blackout caused by human failure left nearly 5 million people without power in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, and officials said many residents may be out of service for a day or more.

Almost six years after ceasing operations, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a seven-ton research satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011.

In the San Francisco Bay area where tolerance is king, it is a rare politician willing to clamp down on citizens who let it all hang out.

Two lawsuits by three Chinese dissidents and a human rights group accusing Cisco Systems Inc. of abetting imprisonment and torture could have far-reaching impact on how U.S. technology companies conduct business in authoritarian regimes.

The FBI conducted a dramatic raid today on a California solar company, Solyndra, that received a loan of $527 million from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB), a subsidiary of the U.S. Treasury. The FBI raid followed the filing of Solyndra’s bankruptcy yesterday.

Imagine, for a moment, that some errant instinct prompted you to want to watch an independent film called Danielle Staub Raw, which features the erstwhile Real Housewife of New Jersey engaged in certain X-rated acts. You probably wouldn’t want anyone to know that you were spending your free time watching Danielle Staub Raw. And you might prefer not paying for the movie. So it’s not too tough to discern the motivations of the more than 5,000 people who illegally downloaded the film anonymously t...

A massive power outage triggered by human error left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, power utilities said, warning service might not be restored until the next day.

San Diego-based power outage affecting 1.4 million customers

A massive power outage left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, San Diego Gas and Electric said, warning service might not be restored until the next day.

SAP AG agreed to plead guilty to unspecified charges in a criminal case involving unauthorized access to computers maintained by software rival Oracle Corp, according to a court filing.

The San Diego power outage has left many residents, businesses, and government bodies without electricity (or running on backup generators).

Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana made major contributions toward increasing the national average. Each of these states recorded their hottest summers ever, with the average summer temperature in Texas being 86.8 degrees. In Oklahoma, the average was 86.5 degrees.

An ex-friend of Michelle Le, the nursing student of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center on Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward who has been missing for more than three months, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering Le.

An invisible planet that has not yet been glimpsed has been discovered by scientists using NASA's crafty Kepler spacecraft.

It's never been seen before, after all it is invisible, but scientists have discovered a new planet with the help of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

2011 has been an unprecedented year for extreme weather, and a new report links the meteorological fury to the long arc of climate change.