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Is American chat show queen, Oprah Winfrey, going to introduce the Bachchan family's youngest member, Beti B - one of India's youngest and probably most famous and mysterious celebrities - on her show? She could well be... if a report by NDTV is any indication. Oprah Winfrey recently made her maiden visit to India and apparently, she was so eager to see Aishwarya's baby she went straight from the airport to the Bachchan family residence. A long time friend of the Bachchans (Aishwarya in...

The sporting world continues to mourn the death of Sarah Burke, the 29-year-old Canadian freestyle skier and Winter X-Games champion, who succumbed to head injuries after a skiing accident in Utah on Thursday, Jan. 10.

Voting on much debated SOPA and PIPA bills could be delayed in the light of recent events.

Highly touted high school cornerback Yuri Wright was expelled after a series of sexually explicit messages on Twitter.

One protester was arrested inside the Supreme Court.

Fans took to Twitter to offer praise and condolences, noting her legendary skiing status.

Close on the heels of the Senate delaying the vote on PIPA (Protect IP Act), U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) also announced that the House of Represenative has shelved the anti-piracy bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) until there is wider agreement on a solution.

The hashtag SOPA is dead began trending on Twitter Friday as news spread that Lamar Smith has withdrawn SOPA, the highly controversial anti-piracy legislation, from the House. Smith agreed to pull the bill until there is wider agreement on a solution.

Web sites connected to SOPA were attacked and temporarily knocked offline. Notorious hacker collective Anonymous took credit for the attacks that included Whitehouse.gov, the DOJ Web site, and Web sites for the U.S. Copyright Office and Recording Industry Association of America. Anonymous claimed to have hacked the government sites in retalliation for the Megaupload sites, and the others because they are lobbying heavily for passage of SOPA.

Following the recent outrage of Netizens against the anti-piracy bill Protect IP Act (PIPA), the U.S. Senate announced, Friday, that it has delayed voting on the controversial bill, which was originally scheduled for next week.

U.S. venture capitalists dipped deeper into their pockets to fund start-ups last year, despite a slowdown in the fourth quarter. The appetite for mature consumer web companies remained strong, while interest in early-stage companies tumbled.

Etta James died Friday at the age of 73, and the Riverside Coroner's Office in California has released death record, which details how she died.

President Obama can sing, and pretty well for that matter. He showed his appreciation for Al Green on Thursday by delivering lines from Let's stay together at a fundraiser in Harlem's Apollo Theater.

Megaupload is reportedly part of one of the biggest criminal copyright infringement networks U.S. authorities have ever taken down. Seven people were indicted by a Virginia grand jury Jan. 19, and charged with racketeering, money laundering and other charges. Megaupload was allegedly using the Web site as a front for black market content swapping, and had many legitimate users on the site sharing many kinds of legal content. Members who felt cheated out of their money took to Facebook and Twitte...

Nike has unveiled its latest creation, the FuelBand, a new wristband used to track and measure fitness activity and regimen which could revolutionize the way fitness is monitored.

If you were commuting from New Jersey, you may have experienced intense delays on the PATH train. What is usually a normal commuting for thousands working in New York City, turned into a massive human traffic jam at World Trade Center this morning.

A few hours ago, the Canadian hacker iH8sn0w released the latest version of his popular jailbreak utility - Sn0wBreeze 2.9.1 after fixing numerous bugs, including the iPhone 3G iPad-flashing issue.

There are many reasons to debate why the Green Bay Packers lost to the New York Giants last Sunday night. Some say it could have been four turnovers, while others blame Aaron Rodgers' erratic play. However, according to 24-year-old Sad Packer Fan Casey Lewis from Wisconsin, her favorite team lost because she had sparkly painted nails, as seen in a video that has gone viral with 1.5 million views.

Within a few hours of the closure of the video locker service Megaupload, scammers have started flooding social networking sites and online forums with fake links claiming that the site is back online.

Even though iPad has become the most popular tablet in the world, China's Communist Party members are content using special red tablets to do their work.

Megaupload, one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, was shut down Thursday by the U.S. government. Its founder, Kim Schmitz, and several company executives were arrested in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials for mass copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering, reports Wired.com.