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American video games developer, Epic Games, is reportedly set to make a big announcement this weekend, at the Spike Video Games Award (VGA), which will honor the best games in 2011.

A court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

Amtrak passengers riding through the Capitol Corridor in California will now have free Wi-Fi access onboard the trains.

A U.S. court error Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

World's No.1 social network, Facebook, confirmed Monday it has hired Gowalla's management team but is not interested in the brand's service or location-based technology.

The Big 12 will send eight of its teams to bowl games this season. Conference leaders Kansas State and Oklahoma State will play in the Cotton Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, respectively.

The BCS released its bowl game selections on Sunday night and within hours Las Vegas casinos have released the betting lines on all 35 games.

Scientists had theorized the existence of a thin layer of the sun's outermost atmosphere where the interstellar winds bumped up against the last gasps of high energy particles at the edge of our solar system. Voyager 1, speeding through the cosmos for the last 35 years, has finally reached this zone and confirmed the sun's energy has indeed given way to particles from other galaxies.

The Computer History Museum, or CHM, on Monday announced the launch of its new online exhibit on Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs.

The health data analysis revealed that between 1988 and 2008 the number of white people with HIV/AIDS had almost doubled, while the number of cases for blacks had tripled and it was up more than five times for Hispanics. Native Americans and Asian/Pacific Islanders with HIV/AIDs has also increased dramatically in number, but the overall representation number is still low.

Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and attorney general under President George W. Bush, said arguments for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case are flimsy at best.

Here is the complete BCS bowl games schedule for the 2011-2012 season, including the match-ups and where you can watch the games.

For instance, many among Facebook's 800 million users were interested in a dog mourning the death of a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan than they were in stories about troops being pulled out of Afghanistan. Anyway, here is the list from Facebook of its 40 most shared articles of 2011.

The economy showed signs it was decelerating, with an index of service activity pointing to slower growth in November while new orders for factory goods declined in October for the second straight month.

Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakim has been arrested for driving with twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system. This is not the first time Miss Michigan has attracted controversy, or that a contestant has been the subject of scandal. Get all the details on past controversies, and see photos of Fakih's risque past before the DUI.

The official college football bowl game schedule was released on Sunday night after yet another exciting finish to the regular season.

A 65-year-old woman was arrested for trying to cut off her husband's penis with a pair of large scissors, police said.

Katy Perry sported a gorgeous new pink bob Saturday, after the culmination of her California Dreams tour.

Brooke Mueller, the ex-wife of actor Charlie Sheen, was arrested for cocaine possession and assault in Aspen, Colorado, the ski resort town where Sheen was arrested for assaulting Mueller in December 2009.

Tens of thousands of Southern California residents remained without power on Sunday as officials warned that dangerously high winds would return to the region in the evening.