IBM's Watson computing system will take on two former Jeopardy! champions in the first man-machine match on the popular TV quiz show this February.
A Judge on Friday sentenced Ingmar Guandique, 29, the man convicted of killing former Washington intern Chandra Levy, to 60 years in prison.
Pension fund Calpers' proposal to require a majority vote to elect unopposed candidates to the board of Apple Inc
has been endorsed by three prominent proxy advisory services.
President Barack Obama will make a trip to Oregon at the end next week and will visit an Intel manufacturing plant as well as discuss the company's programs related to science, engineering and math programs, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a press conference on Friday.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would make Do Not Track a law.
The Watson project won't end with Jeopardy! next week as IBM will collaborate with several universities to expand it.
The former Governor of California tweeted Thursday that he plans on returning to Hollywood.
Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image revealing the different stages of development of stars, right from dusty little tots to young adults.
A NASA team has identified about 2,100 young star candidates in a region called the North American Nebula. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light.
A Federal court in California has denied Sony's motion to pull the personal information of Twitter and YouTube users who might have downloaded code that allows PlayStations to run with alternative operating systems.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported last night that Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) who recently vacated his job for a medical leave, was seen on the company’s campus recently and was “looking good.”
Applications for jobless benefits in the U.S. fell more than expected for the week ended Feb. 5, marking a drop for the second consecutive week.
Micro blogging giant Twitter is said to have held low level acquisition talks with Google Inc. and Facebook.
Orexigen Therapeutics Inc said it let go of about 40 percent of its workforce to save cash and focus resources on its experimental weight-loss drug. The drugmaker said it expects to take a charge of about $2.6 million on the job cuts, which comes on the heels of the U.S. health regulator denying approval for the drug, Contrave.
Actress Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to stealing a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store.
Lindsay Lohan's latest shoplifting scandal has put the spotlight on celebrity shoplifters. But the question that boggles many is what drives the rich stars to steal.
The home, which was once owned by Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has been listed on the market in Beverly Hills for lease at $25,000 a month.
California-based entrepreneur Soquel, Calif., has created a new line of soda pot or marijuana soda and plans to roll out in February in Colorado.
Social network giant, Facebook, has confirmed its plans on Tuesday to move its headquarters to Sun Microsystems' former campus in Menlo Park, California.
Musical games no longer viable.
A group of 100 faculty members has written to the Orange County district attorney requesting him to drop the charges against the students, saying that they have already been sufficiently penalized and disciplined by the University administration for their misdemeanor.