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Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) closed its Civic Center and Powell Street stations and arrested at least eight people for protesting on Monday night.

NASA has activated Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot that may eventually be used as a helper to astronauts in the International Space Station.

Consumers looking for a place to buy HP's discounted, discontinued TouchPad can look at the company's own online store. Once HP slashed the price on its TouchPad to $99, the product has sold out of many retailers and even HP's online store. But more are on the way, the company says. HP spokeswoman Bryna Corcoran said on Twitter Monday that HP will replenish the supply of TouchPads available at its online store.

HP's turnaround is impressive, but it will prove to be short-lived.

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter both posted record unique visitor numbers in July, according to comScore data.

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The rapper was skateboarding after his St. Louis show when the accident occurred.

Ohio rapper Machine Gun Kelly was arrested for disorderly conduct after he used Twitter to organize a massive flash mob at South Park Mall in suburban Cleveland.

Since Lovato's comeback, fans and fellow celebrities have been nothing short of impressed at her maturity, compure, and honesty when speaking of her past issues.Amazing when people put themselves into their art completely, Pete Wentz said. The new song Skyscraper by @ddlovato is pure perfection, Katy Perry tweeted. Her voice is one of the BEST undiscovered beauties. Can't wait for the full record.

Contestants Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty both walked away as the first-ever winners of The Glee Project. Their grand prize includes seven episodes on Season 3 of Glee. Both winners are very capable to hold their own on the series, as they are great singers and actors. Creator and producer, Ryan Murphy, should not have a difficult time writing characters for Larsen and McGinty.

While most of the world is ready to support Duff in this new stage of life, the filming industry is not quite as embracing. It was reported that Duff was casted as Bonnie in the upcoming film The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. However, now that she announced her pregnancy, it is rumored she was dropped from the role. Director, Tonya S. Holly, pursuing other actresses as the timing of Duff's pregnancy just doesn't work out for the film's executives. They would begin filming in the fa...

Amy Winehouse's father Mitch said his plans to set up a charity in his late daughter's name had been frustrated by a cyber squatter who had stolen the organization's intended address on the internet.

History will note that Internet came back to life in Libya on August 21, 2011. It took 150 days for its resurrection.

Though Google’s social networking site Google+ has reached a count that Facebook and Twitter took two years to attain, Google+ could not slow down the activities in the other social networking platforms.

Country singer Chely Wright got married to her girlfriend of more than a year on Saturday.

Israel and the Hamas Islamist group which controls the Gaza Strip have agreed to a ceasefire after five days of cross-border violence, officials said Monday.

Predictions of extraterrestrials invading Earth to destroy our civilization and save the rest of the universe, attributed to NASA, have been disavowed by their author.

Egypt and Israel tried Sunday to defuse a diplomatic crisis over the killing of five Egyptian security personnel during an Israeli operation against cross-border raiders, as crowds of Egyptians protested angrily at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.

Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly was cited with disorderly conduct after he was accused of refusing to get down from a food court table during a flash mob he organized at a suburban mall, police said on Sunday.

Fashion magazine Vogue's Italian Edition, which ran a picture ad under the title Slave earrings, is facing heavy criticism from internet community which calls it disgraceful to glamorize slavery, and is demanding an apology from Vogue to black women.

A study that evaluates sci-fi scenarios for extraterrestrial encounters, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, said that E.T. could decide whether we're a threat to intergalactic order and may try to kill us. At the heart of these scenarios is the possibility that intrinsic value may be more efficiently produced in our absence, the researchers wrote.