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Apple 's spectacular rise continues.

Instant access to almost any song you can think of, free personalized radio--digital music's time has come. How can you take advantage of the streaming riches without tanking your workday? With the U.S

Research universities have been abuzz with what some are calling the “next big thing”: convergence, the integration of the life, engineering and physical sciences.

Aw, look at the cute baby! Coloring in the lines! Riding that trike with ease! Looping those shoe laces into bunny ears! You're all grown up now, Twitter! Today, Twitter turns just five years old, but its accomplishments far outweigh that of any adolescent's. And while Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone are blowing out birthday candles on a cake made of black truffles and 140 ounces of gold, like any relative, we thought it the perfect time to highlight what the social network has achieved. After all, just look at how much the San Francisco-based company has to celebrate.

Congress is on the verge of passing the first patent reforms in 60 years. This may not be good news for small business. A patent reform bill labelled by one Congressman as "patently unfair to inventors" could be in front of the President this month

British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.

Erik Compton is among the elite on the PGA Tour this week at the AT&T National, even though he has been in a league of his own for about as long as he's been playing golf.

Friday, August 19 Annette Funicello and Jimmie Dodd, fans’ favorite mouseketeers. | Photograph courtesy of Everett Collection (Mickey Mouse Cub) Think Comic-Con, but replace the superheroes with princesses. This year's D23 Expo -- the second gathering of the fast-growing Disney official fan club -- will welcome fanatics to Anaheim, California, for three days of archival costume and prop showcases (Annette Funicello's Mickey Mouse Club sweater!), celebrity sightings (Johnny Depp!), trivia tournaments, and advance screenings of upcoming movies.

You may not use a health device connected to your doctor yet, but you probably will soon. What will these devices look like and how will you use them?

When Ankur Jain entered Wharton's undergraduate business program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, he immediately wanted to start a business. His father, Naveen Jain, the CEO of data company Intelius, told him no.

The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises. Matt Damon, water warrior.

FREEDOM AND COMMERCE The commentary by Jonathan Zittrain on “ Freedom and Anonymity ” [Forum] misses the point.

Though it will cost just a few dollars, a new device may actually be the key to managing our aging power infrastructure and maximizing clean power. Recent rolling power outages and power failures over the past few years have highlighted just how vulnerable our power grid is to disaster. The White House just announced a $250 million loan bonanza for major smart grid deployment, but a 4-millimeter-thick chip that costs just a few dollars may actually be the key to ensuring that our aging power grid infrastructure doesn't die on us

This is the complete rear face of the sun, imaged for the first time in this manner by NASA's two STEREO solar imaging spacecraft on June 1. It's intriguing, and also relevant: Scientists are predicting that the next 11-year Solar Cycle could be very muted, which some suggest leads to an extended period of cold weather on Earth.

Monday's when we finally hear all about Apple's cloud services offering iCloud. We don't know much, but thanks to enterprising photographers at the Moscone West center where Apple's event will be held, we now know what the logo looks like