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Apple's unveiling of iPhone 4S might have disappointed many who had been anticipating iPhone 5. However, Siri, the voice assistant feature in iPhone 4S, has caught the imagination of customers and reviewers.

The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programing language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

Archaeologists discovered a 100,000-year-old workshop in Blombos Cave in South Africa that may have been the world's earliest artist's studio.

So here's the dilemma in case you missed it. I was watching the GOP presidential debate from Dartmouth early this week, brought to us by Bloomberg TV and The Washington Post. Early in the debate I noticed along with many others that Ron Paul's eyebrow seemed to be falling off. In fact, it looked to me to be a fake eyebrow -- an eyebrow toupee.

A U.S. Navy Veteran is suing the Department of Veteran Affairs after the agency denied her spousal disability benefits, citing a federal law that defines marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second defendant in the horrific Cheshire, Conn., home invasion murders in 2007, was found guilty of 17 counts which include murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.

A Wisconsin state lawmaker Wednesday proposed a plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating presidential electoral votes.

It's a watershed season for funny girls on TV, with female comedy talent dominating the airwaves in front of and behind the camera.

Raj Rajartnam, the former co-founder of Galleon Group hedge fund, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in an historic case for white collar crimes.

Fritz Manes, who produced several of his childhood friend Clint Eastwood's films in the 1980s, has died, his wife told The New York Times. He was 79.

The numbers are in, and Herman Cain's new book is a national bestseller. Now, Cain said the book tour is over and he is committing to more aggressive campaigning and campaign spending.

With Apple releasing the iMessage application for its iPhone, changes in how carriers collect money for text messaging and data plans could change within the next few years.

At the culmination of his last muckraking documentary, 2009's Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore said he was not going to make another film until someone else -- a group, a movement, an individual, anyone -- stepped up with their own dissonant voice.

Now that Herman Cain has launched a bestseller with his brand new book This is Herman Cain! the Republican candidate for president says he will shift away from a recent focus on book sales and promotion to better focus on his campaign, and key states like New Hampshire and Iowa.

Senior government officials in Iran have hailed the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and across the U.S., claiming the protests will eventually bring down the capitalist system. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly stated that capitalism's “corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people.

The Topeka City Council repealed the city's ban on domestic battery on Tuesday night, in a controversial move to challenge the county's decision to stop prosecuting the crime due to budget cuts.

Apple iPhone 4S (the 16GB version) was launched for pre-orders last Friday and recorded over 1 million pre-orders in a single day breaking the record of 600,000 set by iPhone 4. The 32 and 64 GB versions are also sold out at four sites and are only available at Sprint.

A look back at last month's fashion presentations.

With Apple releasing the iMessage application for its iPhone Wednesday, analysts have mixed opinions about what that will mean for text messaging.

A new report reveals that Google+ has lost about 60 percent of its traffic gained after opening to the public in September. Can Google+ survive against Facebook?

Joe the Plumber has filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Republican in Ohio's Ninth District -- home to two of the most liberal Democrats in Congress.

It took almost two years, but Facebook has finally launched its much anticipated app for the iPad, packed with the social networks newest features and perks.

Bertelsmann Chairman and CEO Hartmut Ostrowski is resigning from his position effective at yearend, the company announced Monday.

The problems and confusion for Netflix keep coming. Just weeks after the streaming video and DVD-by-mail company said it would spin off its DVD business into a new company called Qwikster Netflix has changed its mind. Netflix said Monday morning it has decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one company name and one Web site -- Netflix.

Sarah Burton, legendary designer Alexander McQueen's right-hand woman, showed off her brilliant Spring/Summer 2012 women's ready-to-wear collection, at the Paris Fashion Week on Oct. 4.

Steve Jobs' posthumously released biography, now available for pre-order has become a chartbuster on online bookstores. Author Walter Isaacson spent over two years conducting forty exclusive and unprecedented interviews with Jobs and over hundred of his family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues for the book which chronicles rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur.

Reports show that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the planning stages and making deals to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs movie about the Apple co-founder.

The New York Times has sold the film and television database Baseline StudioSystems to Project Hollywood, the company announced late on Friday.