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The state Education Department has produced a last-minute, preliminary "parents' bill of rights" on the use and security of student data a?? hours before a legally imposed deadline to do so.

Johnson & Johnson is asking surgeons not to use a line of devices for removing growths from the uterus amid regulators' growing concern that the electronic surgical tools raise the risk of spreading cancer to other parts of the body.

"Hanging out" on Google will now be as easy as sending e-mails and sharing documents - while you're in the office, that is.

Dublin's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has become a social media phenomenon after being caught on video fighting a man who allegedly tried to steal his money.

Paramount Pictures film studio apologised on Wednesday for a poster for its upcoming film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", showing the four characters jumping down from an exploding skyscraper underscored with a Sept.

The company's corporate vice president of operating systems, Joe Belfiore, said Wednesday in Beijing that Chinese and British users of Windows Phones will get the voice-recognizing app in a coming update to Windows Phone 8.1. Users in Australia, Canada and India will also get a version of Cortana, although the company said that would be an earlier ... (more)

The company says its GigaPower network has a 1 gigabit per second speed. That's about 100 times faster than what U.S. consumers typically get.

Folks on social media ask: Where is mysterious woman in black? She's been spotted in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia, according to the Facebook page.

This week, OKCupid became the latest company to admit that it has manipulated customer data to see how users of its dating service would react to one another.

For mobile users who text with friends via Facebook, it's almost time to download the social-media giant's dedicated app for doing so, or lose the ability.

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said it opened a case in June after complaints Microsoft improperly failed to publish all documentation for its Windows operating system and Office software.

The 30-year-old entrepreneur has learned a lot about communication since he teamed up with his college roommate Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook a decade ago, and that knowledge is fueling an audacious attempt to change the way people connect at work, where the incessant drumbeat of email has become an excruciating annoyance.

The ubersuperduperstar was seen checking out a $21.5 million penthouse in Chelsea, close to the building in which Katie Holmes barricaded herself after her divorce from Tom Cruise, a source reportedly told New York Daily News.

OkCupid, a top US matchmaking website, intentionally mismatched users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive service said on Monday, weeks after Facebook admitted to misleading users in a psychological study.

In less than six months, prescriptions for Sovaldi have eclipsed all other hepatitis C pills combined, according to new data from IMS Health.

According to Facebook: Greenville County Pet Rescue , this beauty is running out of time at the high-kill upstate shelter.

The ruling is a defeat for Donald Sterling, who sought to block his estranged wife from selling the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.

Batkid is, of course, leukemia survivor Miles Scott, who as a 5-year-old last year "saved Gotham" as part of his Make-a-Wish Foundation dream wish.

One of the companies challenging Detroit's bankruptcy plan has a higher estimate for the value the Detroit Institute of Arts collection as well as an estimate of the worth of city-owned real estate.

A few celebrities have weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis in Gaza in recent weeks by tweeting support for Palestine, but most, including Rihanna and Dwight Howard, quickly deleted their tweets after experiencing a huge backlash by supporters of Isreal.