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Among those in Long Beach for TED 2013 this week is Larry Brilliant, former head of Google.org. Brilliant was an influential epidemiologist and technologist whose life and career was altered in 2006 when he received the TED Prize.  The TED Prize was one...

SAN FRANCISCO -- With its gourmet cafes, workout gyms and sundry perks, the Googleplex is already the stuff of working stiffs' dreams. Now the sprawling suburban office park that houses one of the world's most famous companies is about to get even...

Viddy, a Venice, Calif., developer of the namesake short-video sharing app, has redesigned the app for the iPhone, adding several new features that users may enjoy. The updated app, also available for iPod Touch and available for download now from the...

Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...

Microsoft won't be able to release the Surface Pro tablet in January as it originally said, but the tech giant will miss its deadline only by a few days. The Redmond, Wash.,-based company announced Tuesday that the Surface Pro will go on sale Feb. 9....

A rare and transparent Apple Newton listed on Ebay appears to have sold for $1,350. The item, which was available only under EBay's "Buy It Now" feature, was one of Apple's unsuccessful MessagePad personal digital assistant devices from the 1990s. The...

A German tinkerer has combined his love of Iron Man movies and passion for laser gadgets to build a real-life version of the super hero's robotic arms, and he has sold the laser-firing device for more than $2,660. Patrick Priebe, 29, of Wuppertal,...

Doodle 4 Google, the nationwide art contest that gives kids a shot at landing their artwork on the Google homepage, kicks off Monday. The prize is a $30,000 college scholarship for the winner and $50,000 for his or her school. Parents love that part. ...

Are you getting "scroogled" by Google? Microsoft thinks so. In its latest attack against its search engine rival, Microsoft has launched a website in which it tells users that they are, essentially, getting dishonest search results when they use...

Right now tech companies fight about the phone you use. The next battle could be over the glasses you wear. Microsoft is working on a device that delivers information about live events to a person wearing a head-mounted display. One of the drawings...

Bill Gates has been the richest person in the country for an entire generation, cinching the top spot on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans for the 19th consecutive year. That’s what a net worth of $66 billion will do for a guy....

Marissa Mayer, who was Google's first female engineer and its 20th employee when she joined that company in 1999, has been named CEO of Yahoo. She's the fifth CEO in as many years at that struggling company. Monday's announcement has caused ripples in...