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Apple's new A6 core inside the iPhone 5 is an engineering breakthrough -- illustrating new design skills, a top chip expert said.

A team of thieves were caught on video siphoning 900 gallons of gas in California in what is estimated to be a $4,500 gas heist.

Kim Kardashian reveals in a behind-the-scenes video with Tatler magazine what turns her off about men.

Can a country as famously tolerant, integrated and prosperous as Norway feel safe again, now that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the misfortune that hit Norway July 22 last year in the form of two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks, is behind bars serving his 21-year sentence? Maybe not. “There is a real chance that 7/22 can happen again,” Kjetil Stormark the Norwegian author of the recently released book, “The Oslo Killer Files: Private emails of a mass murderer,” told the International Business Times in an email interview.

HP's CEO Meg Whitman thinks the company can turn itself around by 2016. But HP, or parts of it, could become takeover targets.

Public nudity is completely legal in San Francisco, but with a proposed ban on the horizon, nudists might be in trouble. City Supervisor Scott Wiener seeks to ban public nudity there.

As the world recalls the death of Steve Jobs, his career of triumphs and setbacks has parallels with two living legends: Lee Iacocca and Sanford Weill.

Police Chief Charlie Beck joins the pushback on a federal immigration program that recruits local law enforcement.

Bruce Davis, a former follower of Charles Manson, was recommended for parole on Thursday by a California parole board.

It's been a year since Steve Jobs died. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is humming. But could it encounter problems.

HP (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman has had a year to devise a turnaround strategy. Here are five things she must deliver.

California investigators say the Fricot Nugget, a giant crystalline gold mass unearthed in the Gold Rush era, is safe and sound.

"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is set to host the 2013 Oscars. Here are five things to know about MacFarlane.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) will ship the HP ElitePad 900 tablet for business and government clients in January. The price will be announced later.

Practicing sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) or "gay cure" therapy on minors has been banned in California.

Therapy to steer minors away from homosexuality will be banned in California on Jan. 1. Psychotherapists could lose licenses for ignoring law.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Monday announced its next generation business-class Windows 8 tablet, the HP ElitePad 900. Coming with enterprise-grade features, functionality and support, the new tablet will be available in the United States in January.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) will get just a shade greener as its MidAmerican Wind unit announced Sunday its agreement to buy two wind-energy projects in Tehachapi, Calif.

California enacted a new bill that protects child actors. Backed by Cory Feldman and Todd Bridges, the bill was sponsored after J. J. Abrams discovered that his casting associate was a registered sex offender.

Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) botched IPO hurt tech stocks, but Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) shined with Trulia (Nasdaq: TRLA).

Dinah Jane Hansen echoed Beyonce during her 2012 "X Factor" audition.