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SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in “The Godfather” and recorded hits including “Spanish Eyes” and the Italian ballad “Volare” in a 50-year musical career, died Tuesday. He was 82 years old.

Martino died at his childhood home in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield, in Delaware [...]

Tiger Woods is the first athlete to reach a billion dollars in career earnings, according to Forbes.com, cementing his status as the top pitchman/athlete in sports history.
The $10 million prize he claimed for winning the FedEx Cup title on Sunday pushed him over the top, according to Forbes’ estimates.

Woods had earned $895 million coming into [...]

ViaSat agrees to buy satellite Internet provider Wild Blue for $568 million in cash and stock
By Deborah Yao, AP Business Writer
ViaSat Inc. is acquiring Wild Blue Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million in cash and stock, the companies said Thursday.

Privately held Wild Blue, in which Liberty Media [...]

The main emblem of the Olympic Games is not bears with the five circles on the ab and not foxes or little dancing men, but Olympic objects, or architecture.

Russian Sochi City is now being filled with awesome structures which are designed to take away the breath of the place’s visitors. There is only five years [...]

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.
The circumstances of Jackson’s death were not immediately clear. Jackson wasn’t breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at [...]

Michael Jackson, the world’s most successful entertainer, died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles of apparent cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old.
There is no questioning the gifts Jackson gave millions of people around the world. His humanitarianism is well documented, going back decades. (In 2000, he made it into the Guinness Book of World Records [...]

Kevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics with such a fascination with for robots, that he’s endeavoring to be the first man ever to become a cyborg.

On 1998, a simple RFID transmitter was implanted beneath Warwick’s skin, and used to control doors, lights, heaters, and other computer-controlled devices based on his proximity. [...]

Tunguska – Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned
In the early morning of 30 June, 1908, witnesses told of a gigantic explosion and blinding flash. Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned and flattened.

Scientists have always suspected that an incoming comet or asteroid lay behind the event – but no impact crater was [...]

A stunning new film shot at the NASA laboratory at UC Berkeley reveals the secret lives of magnetic fields as they morph and twist in space – but are we observing a scientific experiment, the universe in flux or a documentary of a fictional world?

They surround us, yet they can’t be seen. They shift vast [...]

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a gathering of analysts that the company won’t be making any further layoffs, and once word got out, Wall Street proceeded to pummel the company mercilessly, sending its stock to an 11-year low.

Analyst Rob Enderle told us the no-more-layoffs decision made sense because there just [...]