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First Came iPhone’s Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning

With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are embracing smartphones to make the best GPS navigators ever.

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Trove, WaPo Labs’s Personalized News Site, Plays Hot-Or-Not With Articles

Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style

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Video: Catherine Zeta-Jones gets candid on Bipolar struggle

Catherine Zeta-Jones is speaking out in People Magazine on her treatment at a mental health facility for bipolar II disorder, following husband Michael Douglas' battle with cancer. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.

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Tablet Wars: Intel Joins Game

For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief

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Woman explains record 52 plastic surgery operations

Cindy Jackson, 55, tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that her “highly developed sense of aesthetics” encouraged her desire to achieve “classic proportion” through 52 different surgical procedures.

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BP’s Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later

One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, what has been learned? [More]

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A New Threat to the Amazon: Gold

Gold-hungry Peruvian miners are eroding the country's portion of the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate, according to a new study. Small-scale gold panners in the Andean nation have responded to soaring gold prices by revving up the pace of gold mining, stripping the region of its forests.

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Pressel to donate half of earnings in Japan return

Morgan Pressel is returning to Japan to defend her title, and she will give half of whatever she makes to the American Red Cross toward relief efforts for tsunami and earthquake victims.

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