The cast and crew of Mad Men do a great job of transporting viewers to another time and place. But what influence has Jon Hamm's Golden Globe winning character Don Draper had on your working style?
President Barack Obama is going to the heart of the U.S. auto industry to push an important election-year claim: his administration's unpopular auto industry bailout has turned into an economic good-news story.
College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service's privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.
Game developer Richard "Lord British" Garriott won a $28 million lawsuit against former employer NCSoft today for breach of contract. The Korean-based software company fired him while he was in space.
An investigation has highlighted the extent of child prostitution and sex tourism in the north-east of Brazil. The country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex tourism and on attempts to curb the problem.
Mexican soldiers have killed a leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel in a shootout, providing a badly needed victory to President Felipe Calderon in his war against the criminal organizations that have vied for control of the country.
Either Digg hates new users or we're about to see the changeover to Digg v4.0. As of this morning, new account registration has closed for Digg. Attempting to create an account yields this message: "The New Digg Is Coming..."
The history of Burning Man has always been a complex entity that has survived, nay, mutated over the years. And because of this, it has grown rapidly since its humble beginnings of a simple gathering on a beach.
As a member of the police force, you've gotta have sharp instincts. You have to know when to when to call for backup, when to ask questions and when to shimmy out of the squad car to unleash the funk.
BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of its effort to repair the company's badly damaged reputation.
Connecting people to one another is not just Fake’s hobby — she has made it her career. As the cofounder of Flickr, the landmark photography site, Fake provided a place for shutterbugs to share their work; they have uploaded more than 4 billion pictures. It was a seminal service that helped launch the era of user-generated content, spurring...
Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the foodchain. Marine biologists started finding orange blobs
Prosecutors have decided not to file charges against a former city police officer accused three years ago of forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to perform oral sex on him in his patrol car while he was on duty and in uniform.
Six years after the finale of "Friends" — and four after spinoff "Joey" ended — Matt LeBlanc, now 43, sporting silver hair. But LeBlanc has a big secret bottled up.
Madmen star Christina Hendricks appeared on KTLA's morning show to discuss her Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama, but anchor Brian McFayden had a tough time staying focused after Hendricks makes a passing comment about taking a bath.
The guy, who was apparently born in Florida but moved to Ohio, shows up in the Heat jersey and doesn't do anything to provoke being thrown out. However fans started chanting, "*****, *****" and "***** LeBron" over and over again and police decided to escort him out.
Today is the 11th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, but IT workers who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running won’t see a lot to celebrate in a new report that shows their pay dropping and more of their jobs being farmed out to even cheaper labor.
For the last year and a half, on issues including healthcare, financial regulation and climate change, Democrats in Congress have bent for President Obama. Then the president asked them to bend yet again. In that exchange, the tension between the White House and the president's Democratic allies spilled over.
A female lecturer has been prevented from teaching at a Muslim university in eastern India by students demanding that she wear a burka, according to a report.
Why rent the cow when you can borrow the milk for free? That seems to be the mindset of many Americans, as a new study claims that more DVDs are borrowed from libraries each day than are rented via Netflix, Redbox or Blockbuster.
Roger Ebert recently stated that he never should have spoken about video games because he lacked first-hand experiences with them. These are the 10 games that we think he should play; they would give him the requisite knowledge and understanding of the video game experience to allow him to make an educated judgment on the medium.