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Catamarans have come a long way in terms of their appeal as pleasure vessels, and Taiwanese shipbuilder Horizon Yacht takes them a step further with its newest model, the PC58—the yard’s first foray into the category. The dual hulls of the nearly 60-foot-long boat provide the PC58 with a beam ...

MIAMI -- There's only one building in Florida that can withstand the biggest and baddest of all hurricanes -- the Category 5, with winds of at least 165 mph (266 kph) -- and it's a concrete bunker along an unglamorous stretch of road in South Florida called the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC never closes. Here, weather forecasters work around the clock, 365 days a year, tracking threatening storms in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

To generate growth, companies seem to love "hard" product innovation--the type of expensive breakthroughs that require engineers and PhDs to toil away deep in the lab. Think Teflon, Viagra, or the Segway scooter. The challenge with this type of innovation is that it's expensive and high risk because it requires a lot of marketing dollars to educate consumers, not to mention the cost of developing the product itself.

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]

By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane over the Bahamas on Wednesday as it roared up from the Caribbean on a path expected to swipe the East Coast from the Carolinas upward at the weekend.

Magician David Copperfield waved his hand over the envelope, which popped open. He wiggled his fingers, and the card slid upward

It’s amazing how some things can seemingly materialize overnight and take an entire industry by storm. Extraordinary anomalies like Facebook, the iPad, and reality television all fall into this category, and—whether you have noticed it or not—Korean automaker, Hyundai appears to be on the fast track to this sort of ...

In the beginning, Web site owners posted words and pictures on their pages. Today we refer to that primitive time as Web 1.0.

IBM Yorktown Heights, New York | Photograph by Reed Young David Ferrucci Principal Investigator - Watson Project, IBM Yorktown Heights, New York The principal investigator for IBM's DeepQA/Watson project, Ferrucci, 49, led the creation of the Jeopardy-playing robot, Watson.