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Creating a simulation, which approximates the formation of the Milky Way using a powerful supercomputer, was no cakewalk for the researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich. After nine months of effort, at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Manno, Switzerland, the first simulation of the formation of the spiral galaxy Milky Way was created by the researchers, who claim it would have taken 570 years to build the simulation o...

Hewlett-Packard is bringing the canceled Touchpad back for one last time and another round of its fire sale.

Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) have built an on the go compact, light-weight, dual-mode microscope that is not only portable but also efficient. The prototype dual-mode microscope uses holograms instead of lenses as in the case of a traditional microscope. Published in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, Biomedical Optics Express, the UCLA researchers explain that the prototype not only weighs the same as a medium-sized banana but also fits within the ...

U.S. authorities are investigating whether business software maker Oracle Corp.'s deals in Africa violated federal anti-bribery laws, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

A Southern California man arrested for throwing his 7-year-old son overboard during a sightseeing cruise says he and his child were horse playing.

Hewlett-Packard is reviving the TouchPad for one last time before its final burial.

Astronomers have revealed startling facts about how widely separated solar reactions are linked, with one eruption somehow triggering the other.

Now HP says it may restore the tablet to life as it mulls over a spinoff of its personal computer arm, said the head of its PC division.

The Free Speech Coalition announced Sunday night that an adult actor has contracted HIV, prompting Los Angeles' adult film industry to shut down. The industry uses a database that lists STD statuses of all performers.

A Southern California man has been arrested for child endangerment and resisting arrest after he struck his son and threw him overboard because the child witnessed an argument between him and his girlfriend on a cruise in Newport Harbor, authorities said.

The porn industry in Los Angeles, CA. came to a screeching halt Saturday, after an adult entertainer tested positive for HIV. LA officials ordered an immediate shutdown of the multi-billion-dollar adult entertainment industry by Monday, forcing a number porn sets across the San Fernando Valley to close losing a substantial amount of revenue.

Widely touted as the iPhone 5 killer, Samsung's Galaxy S2 smartphone has made it to the United States, quelling anticipation, and pre-empting its U.S. rival by at least two months.

Pornography film shoots across the United States have been largely shut down after an industry trade group called for a moratorium because an adult-film performer tested positive for HIV, officials with the organization said on Tuesday.

An adult actor who contracted HIV through unprotected sex shut down Los Angeles' adult film industry Monday night. An involuntary sexual health database was established less than a month ago in order to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted disease within the notoriously promiscuous community.

Astrophysicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich have created a detailed simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy.

An adult film performer has tested positive for HIV, prompting a temporary shutdown of the billion-dollar porn industry in Los Angeles on Monday night. Porn producers shut down the shoots in Southern California as the diagnosis is confirmed through retesting, an industry group told the media

In the nation’s capital, almost one-half of people (49.3 percent) between the ages of 16 and 19 are jobless this summer.

The White House replaced the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Attorney for Arizona on Tuesday in the latest casualties over a botched gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.

Alien life stands a far better chance of being discovered thanks to vastly improved scientific detection devices, say scientists meeting this week in Denver at an American Chemical Society conference.

Michael Jackson, the iconic pop star, would have celebrated his 53rd birthday on Aug. 29, if he didn't pass away mysteriously on June 25, 2009. Meanwhile, on Jackson's birthday, more updates on the forthcoming trial of murder-suspect Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, have been revealed - the judge has already barred the singer's dermatologist Arnold Klein from giving evidence.

The arrest of President Obama's uncle,Onyango Obama, is not the first legal issue for a prominent political family.