A False Sense of Security Doomed Benghazi Consulate Workers
A lot went wrong at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, but according to new interviews with the staff, the staff should've been better prepared.
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The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
A lot went wrong at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, but according to new interviews with the staff, the staff should've been better prepared.
Despite the government tax breaks and obvious low fuel costs, capitalism is taking its toll on the electric car industry.
When the press embargo for the Kindle Paperwhite lifted on Sunday night, practically everyone in the tech blogosphere seemed to sing its praises in unison.
The head of Reuters' Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi could be looking at jail time after a special media court found her guilty of "spreading lies" with a February video about Iranian women in martial arts training.
With the recent purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, it would seem like Buckingham Palace is getting pretty edgy.
If you're bored with your little smartphone and less-little tablet, you might consider investing in one of the latest impressive touchscreen devices: mirrors.
Mahmoud Ahmadenijad had more than one sinister moments when he sat down with reporters at the Warwick Hotel on Monday.
Variety, the struggling but steadfast Hollywood trade publication, is close to finding a buyer, and if all goes as the Los Angeles Times says it will, that could very well be the Penske Media Corporation.
Without the star power of the Oscars and the energetic musical interludes of the Grammys, the Emmys sometimes seem like the red-headed stepchild of the awards ceremonies.
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama went head-to-head on CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday night, and despite some swift swings and tough jabs, nobody got hurt.
Iran began the process of shutting down citizens' access to the Internet on Sunday by suspending access to Google and Gmail nationwide.
The World Health Organization tried not to raise too many red flags on Sunday when they announced that they found a rare and deadly virus nearly in the same family as SARS in a 49-year-old Qatari man in the United Kingdom.
Like a scene out of a Tim Robbins movie, 132 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison after digging a tunnel ten feet deep through the floor of an old carpentry workshop and cutting the fence to open the path to freedom.
After yet another green-on-blue attack left four Americans dead on Sunday, U.S. troops have suspended their joint operations with Afghan security forces.
In three short weeks, America's favorite frenemies Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart will trade insults and intellectual niceties once again in a 90-minute debate.
Update 10:10 p.m.: Romney made an appearance on Monday night to explain his controversial speech and basically owned it. The candidate said that his calling Americans "victims" was "not elegantly stated" and that he "spoke off the cuff."
Mitt Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention didn't exactly knock anybody's socks off, and according to a new Politico exposé there's a good reason for that: it was thrown together at the last minute.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the Harvard graduate twins who just couldn't stop suing Mark Zuckerberg for creating Facebook, have finally found their calling: creating a Facebook-like website.
Fried steak in hand, Maryland governor Martin O'Malley turned some heads in Iowa on Sunday in what many are calling the first stop on his 2016 presidential campaign.
The expected vote on the contract deal reached by negotiators from the Chicago Teachers Union and the city never came on Sunday, ushering in a second week without school for the city's youth.
Now, 11 years later, new details of the attack on the World Trade Center continue to emerge from the government's vault of classified documents and the journalists who've gained access.
While you've probably heard of the expensive treatments likes Rogaine and Propecia, the latest hair loss remedy is so simple it's silly: Vitamin D.
Now that the standoff between Julian Assange and British police at the Ecuadorian embassy has calmed down, people are starting to gather in the streets of Quito to welcome the WikiLeaks founder.
When Scott Van Duzer got caught up in the moment during President Obama's Sunday visit to his pizza shop in Fort Pierce, Florida, little did he know how quickly the Yelp army would mobilize.
Talks broke down between the Chicago Teachers Union and the public school board on Sunday night, heralding in the city's first strike in 25 years.
The U.S. Treasury moved to reduce its stake in AIG to below 50 percent on Sunday as it continued to keep its promise to distance itself from the controversial 2008 bailout.
Caked with make-up and facing possible disciplinary action for publishing his book on the Bin Laden raid, Mark Owen offered up the details of the SEAL Team 6's historic raid to 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
With three-quarters of potential cocaine shipments sliding under their noses, United States authorities are having a hard time keeping up with the Latin American drug cartels.
Fiat cashes in on its Formula One success, The Gap goes interactive with spring fashion and Sephora discovers Pinterest
Eduardo Saverin's plan to renounce his American citizenship to save millions in taxes is getting more complicated: a pair of lawmakers want to tax Saverin even if he flees to Singapore and then bar him from ever returning to the United States.
A few years ago the thought of a robotic limb controlled by a person's mind was the stuff of science fiction. Today, it seems like there's a new breakthrough in bionic technology every week.
Over the next few days, you may notice a lot of changes on your Google search pages.
As Android widens its lead in the smartphone and tablet marketplace, Apple is starting to look a little frightened.
Despite all the chatter of Barack Obama and Jamie Dimon parting ways, the President continues to find time in his schedule to compliment the JP Morgan Chase chief executive.
As you might imagine, Facebook's initial public offering is going to amount to a pretty hefty tax bill for the company's main stakeholders, but don't you worry, they have lawyers who are helping them avoid paying as much of it as possible.
Something must've been lost in translation last Friday, when everybody got excited about Foxconn's CEO Terry Gou's confirmation of the inevitable release of an Apple television.
Having finally come to terms with the weaknesses in its operating system, Apple is turning to the security company Kaspersky Lab to point out vulnerabilities and offer advice on how to fix them.
It's that time of year again, boys and girls: Time for Facebook to test the boundaries of how much of your data it can collect and sell to advertisers.
Dreamworks stirs up some excitement for its upcoming sequels, Rolling Stone mourns the loss of a music legend and Forever 21 sells jeans.
The National Security Agency is a lot of things. Transparent is not one of them.
Either the chief executive of Foxconn is running his mouth or the much-blogged about Apple television is in the works.
Apple and Google have always been an unlikely pair, competing fiercely in the smartphone arena while sharing some technology that makes those smartphones work. That marriage of convenience may not be long for this world.
JPMorgan Chase revealed in a late-day SEC filing on Thursday that it's lost $2 billion due to some reckless trading of synthetic credit securities.
The road to Facebook's IPO didn't get any smoother Thursday, when The Financial Times' April Dembowsky reported an impending Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company's Instagram purchase.
A pair of apps hit Spotify on Thursday, both with a new and ambitious mission: to find you a lover.
Though several of the world's governments have painted them as thieves or at least enablers of thieving, The Pirate Bay is taking broad strides to understand how file-sharing works on its site rather than ban it altogether.
Time Magazine really swung for the fences with its May 21st cover.
In the sixth update to its S-1 filing so far, Facebook admitted in unambiguous terms on Wednesday that it's in trouble on the mobile front and not quite sure what to do about it.
For the past few months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been running around New York City talking up its potential to become the best city in America for tech companies, and it seems to be working.
In a Google-funded report on the constitutional rights of an Internet search, UCLA law professor—and blogger—Eugene Volokh makes a lofty claim about the legal rights of any given Google search.
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