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SantaCon 2011 attracted thousands of revelers dressed as Santa and other holiday-themed characters to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.

The International Trade Commission this week is expected to determine if Taiwan's HTC infringed upon Apple's smartphone patents. Isn't there a more sensible way to manage the IP wars?

Excavating lost Mayan ruins or traveling to space are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for Facebook employees, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world's No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster IPO.

Blue Coat Systems Inc., a maker of equipment that secures, monitors, and speeds Internet traffic, has agreed to be taken private for $1.1 billion in a deal that throws a lifeline to a company beset by falling sales and a U.S. government probe into use of its products by Syria.

Several of the richest men in America this week came out in favor of higher taxes for the wealthy, if perhaps grudgingly and with caveats. The idea of billionaires accepting that they need to give up more of what they earn to the government has been slowly worming itself into the American political discourse.

A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said on Friday.

Residents in the western United States will be able to see the last total lunar eclipse for nearly three years early on Saturday morning.

Scout Willis just finished a risqué project with StyeLikeU, whose motto is Freedom of expression through personal style.

Researchers has announced a breakthrough in their research on reducing bad cholesterol in the body. The new findings by the team is considered as a major advance towards developing drugs to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) popularly called as 'bad' cholesterol.

High starch intake can increase the risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to findings in a study.

This will be a rare event not to miss for those living in the western third of the U.S. -- a total lunar eclipse on Saturday that's the last one the United States will see for almost three years.

A jury condemned Joshua Komisarjevsky to die for the brutal murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and daughter Hayley and Michaela. Komisarjevsky will join accomplice Steven Hayes on Connecticut's death row for the triple killing, despite defense arguments that he is mentally ill and was horribly abused as a child.

The private spaceflight sector will get another boost in February when SpaceX launches a cargo capsule for the International Space Station, NASA officials announced Friday.

How many times have you walked into an Apple store and thought, Wow, it's like Grand Central Station in here?

Proton beam facilities can cost over $200 million, a price few medical centers are willing to pay. But with the help of investors and a growing body of research that points to better patient outcomes, the technology is starting to take hold and will soon be on track to be the status quo in radiation oncology.

One Citi analyst, citing sources close to the situation, believes Apple will release its next-generation iPad in February of 2012. The tablet will reportedly feature double the pixel density of the iPad 2, as well as a new LED system.

With orders for turbine parts falling, the Energy Information Administration's forecast shows a 100 percent drop in wind energy growth if tax credit expires by 2012.

Among seniors with a high risk of bone fractures, taking vitamin D or calcium pills has no impact on their chances of dying from cancer or vascular disease, researchers say in a new study.

A man who fathered 14 children through sperm donation has come under uneasy spotlight from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA has termed Trent Arsenault, 36, as “manufacturer of human cells” and wants him to stop his free sperm donation drive.

U.S. federal prosecutors, on Thursday, recommended a 15-month prison sentence for former Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds.

MIPS Technologies Inc. has announced NOVO7, the world's first tablet with the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android.