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Coaching tip: Combine the best basketball video game ever with footage of today's most electrifying dunker to create Internet gold.

Discovered: Rapid fire evolution in a Connecticut pond, why pesticides are killing the bees, the best new species on the planet, and butterflies have gotten snobby. Watch years evolution happen in this pond. Due to a feedback loop created by dams in a Connecticut pond, science discovered how an entire species of fish has …

Both Samsung and Sony, two of the world’s largest television makers, have begun enforcing minimum prices on their HDTV sets, in an effort to preserve profit margins, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plan could also protect retail chains such as Best Buy and Target from being undercut by online merchants such as Amazon. …

Microsoft is betting big on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which looks to bridge the gap between smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday called the operating system a “rebirth” of the Windows brand and described it as the ”deepest, broadest and most impactful” Windows …

Best Buy on Tuesday reported results for the first quarter of 2012. The electronics retail giant posted better-than-expected earnings per share, despite declining store sales. Revenue came in at $11.6 billion, ahead of analysts’ consensus of $11.52 billion, and non-GAAP earnings came in at $0.72 per share, up 11% from the …

It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday.

Discovered: Another invisibility cloak, science confirms sex goes with drugs and rock 'n roll, the dolphins are eating a lot of poison and video games teach kids how to be the best murderers they can be.

I am still in love with Google Chrome. It's smooth. The tabs open in just the right way. It knows exactly what I want. It feels right. And, not to mention it's one of the best looking browsers I've ever been with. Even all my friends love Chrome -- a rarity. But Chrome, you've wronged me too many times. I shouldn't have …

London soccer club Chelsea won its first Champions League title on Saturday, defeating German side Bayern Munich to become Europe's best team. It was a nail-biting close final match that went down to a penalty shoot-out.

Apple’s iPhone 3GS was unveiled nearly 3 years ago in June 2009, and some found its familiar styling and modest hardware upgrades to be disappointing. The handset went on to be Apple’s best-selling smartphone until its successor launched the following year, and the iPhone 4 would be Apple’s best-selling iPhone until the …

"My best guess: The owner and cat have robbed a bank, and are hiding out in a cheap motel. The cat is requesting premium, tuna-based snacks."

Microsoft is looking to bolster sales of Windows-powered computers this summer by offering students a free Xbox 360 video game console with a qualifying PC purchase. Beginning on May 18th in Canada and on May 20th in the United States, students who purchase a PC for at least $599 CAD in Canada or $699 in the U.S. will receive …

Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable, a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands, including Verizon and Neutrogena. He is author of The New York Times best seller Likeable Social Media. Dave also launched Likeable Community College and Likeable Local.

The White House has selected the head of the intelligence branch in its budget office to be President Barack Obama's top adviser on cybersecurity issues, a move that comes as Congress and the Obama administration are at odds over how best to protect critical U.S. industries from crippling electronic attacks by cybercriminals, …

In music, it was Pete Best, the original Beatles drummer who was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, just as the band was taking off. In tech, it was Ronald Wayne, the guy who helped co-found Apple with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976, but sold his 10% stake in the company for a total of $2,300 that year -- a position …

Top American universities attract some of the planet's brightest minds to pursue graduate and doctorate degrees in the U.S. But thousands of those best and brightest head for the exits almost immediately after they complete their academic programs.

LG is exhibiting its second generation Google TV at Internet Week New York, a city-wide event showcasing the best of the web which runs from May 14-21 in the Big Apple.

It's no secret that Facebook has decided the best way to spur more advertising on the platform is to encourage marketers to use their brand Pages more effectively.

Best Buy's founder Richard Schulze is stepping down as chairman of the beleaguered consumer-electronics chain after the company's investigation revealed that he failed to alert the board of directors when he learned that the CEO was having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.

Samsung on Monday released a European television commercial for its upcoming flagship Galaxy S III smartphone. Rather than a mouth full of specs, the 60-second ad highlights the handset’s connection to humans and nature. The Galaxy S III “understands you, shares what’s in your heart, keeps track of loved ones, recognises …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook in its early days, a huge financial payoff is not the only thing they may be celebrating when the company goes public later this week. In a business in which the best investment opportunities flow to a small number of firms with big reputations, …

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