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Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack

The scene at first resembles many that play out daily in the war-torn Red Zone of southern Afghanistan: a pair of Black Hawk helicopters descend on a hillside near the country’s southern border with Pakistan. As the choppers land, U.S. marines leap out, assault rifles ready.

The September 11, 2001, attacks initiated a flurry of advances in military technology over the past decade that has helped the U.S. and its allies redefine modern warfare

A new project, funded by the U.S.

The United States Navy is considering embracing Google+ for communicating with sailors and the greater public. The reason, it seems, mostly has to do with Facebook's counterintuitive security settings

Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The

Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The

Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs.

According to a soon-to-be-published study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are seven times more likely to report having lung problems compared with non-deployed vets. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports.

New research shows a link between older veterans who had a traumatic brain injury and an increased risk of dementia. Dr. Jennifer Ashton profiles a young Afghanistan veteran who could be at risk

As Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terror in Afghanistan, winds down and some 33,000 U.S.

President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused U.S.

“The goal,” says Paul Brinkley, a former technology executive and now Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, “is to create an indigenous economy in Afghanistan that gives the Afghans hope, creates employment opportunities for young people, and discourages association with the radicals.” When you think of Afghanistan, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? War?