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These non-tech companies are investing heavily in technological innovation, giving a big boost to the bottom line.

Would you enjoy life on Mars more than Pluto?

Donald Trump says he’s ready to talk directly to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about nukes, and he thinks he'll somehow reason with the hermetic dictator.

Shares of Fitbit Inc. were up 2% in premarket trade Wednesday, after the company said it has acquired the assets of Coin, a consumer electronics and financial technology company. With the acquisition, Fitbit gained some of Coin's personnel and intellectual property, including its wearable payment assets. The company said the acquisition speeds up its "ability" to integrate a mobile payment system into its Fitbit devices, but it doesn't plan to include it in the 2016 product roadmap. Fitbit did... Читать дальше...

Correctional Services failed to fit an electronic monitoring tag to convicted killer and fugitive, Rajiv Narandas - despite it being one of his bail conditions.

Italian military analyst Manlio Dinucci explains what he believes is the biggest danger emanating from the US deployment of its missile defense network in Romania and Poland.

Relatives of the man crushed to death under a World War II tank driven by husband of Jelly Belly CEO Lisa Rowland Brasher have filed a wrongful death suit, according to court records.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on efforts to restore service to three Metro-North rail lines into and out of New York City after a fire halted service and stranded commuters (all times local):

The heads of ten Southeast Asian states are gathering in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi for an ASEAN-Russia Summit to mark 20 years of partnership between Russia and the countries of the region and to boost their cooperation to a “fundamentally new strategic level.”

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There's a lot of advice out there about how to look good in photos — I've written a fair amount of it myself. Hold your chin like this, the camera like this. Smize.

But in the end a photograph is just a recording of how light hit a camera sensor (or strip of film) at a particular moment in time. And if you want to control your photography so the images look as good as possible, you're going to want to control that light.

There are a few ways to do this: Shoot in a bright room... Читать дальше...

Actress Robin Wright says she demanded the same pay as co-star Kevin Spacey for her work on "House of Cards" and got it.

A private school in Los Angeles launched an investigation this week after a video showing a group of its students shouting explicit rap lyrics went viral and sparked an online petition. As of Wednesday morning, more than 400 people had signed a Change.org page demanding the Brentwood School address not only the behavior in the video but other, overarching issues that they say have led to a racist community, the Los Angeles Times reported.

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Olympic world (all times local):

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Olympic world (all times local):

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Olympic world (all times local):

Jamaica's sprinter Usain Bolt smiles during a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Bolt arrived to the Czech Republic to attend a Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on Friday, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a sign reading doping control, at the Laura biathlon and cross-country ski center, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Russia says it supports retesting…

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2013, file photo, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, shakes hands with President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge as Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda stands by after signing the…

FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko gestures while speaking during his and FIFA President Gianni Infantino news conference after their addressed the upper chamber of the Russian parliament in…

Brazil's acting President Michel Temer attends a meeting of ministers and military commanders on the preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, May 16, 2016. Temer assumed the presidency last week…

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Olympic world (all times local):

The Cleveland Cavaliers destroyed the Toronto Raptors by 31 points in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals and along the way LeBron James annihilated a basketball and the rim.