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Lyft lands $60 million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz

2013-05-23 09:00:00

Coming up on the one-year anniversary of its ridesharing service, Lyft is celebrating with a new round of funding worth $60 million. Known for the bright pink mustaches on the grill of its drivers' cars, Lyft is a service that lets smartphone users call...

Xbox One: Microsoft focuses on managing content, not gaming

2013-05-21 17:42:10

Xbox One revealed: Microsoft unveils new console, ‘Halo’ TV series

2013-05-21 09:52:10

Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?

2013-05-21 00:00:00

When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....

Syria launches major assault on strategic rebel stronghold

2013-05-19 22:51:00

BEIRUT — Syrian forces launched a large-scale assault Sunday on the city of Qusair, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border, in the government's latest effort to push back opposition fighters from strategic areas of the country. The opposition...

Syria's military shows unexpected resilience

2013-05-20 18:37:00

BEIRUT — The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience that has already put rebel forces on the defensive on other key fronts, including near the capital, Damascus. The...

Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world

2013-05-16 14:15:00

Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...

Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird

2013-05-16 12:39:00

CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...

Turkey bombings prompt outcry over support for Syria rebels

2013-05-13 17:06:00

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Deadly weekend car bombings in a southern Turkish city have galvanized domestic opposition to the government's steadfast support for Syrian rebels amid fears that Turkey is being dragged into the bloody conflict across its border....

Newlywed's year of solo travel reinforces a bond

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Just four months into marriage, my husband and I were having trouble connecting. Like, actually connecting. The Internet in South Africa was terrible. "I can hear you. Can you hear me?" I shouted from my end, the common room of a Cape Town hostel....

Overseas smartphone fees can be a horror story

2013-04-28 00:00:00

You know the zombies that pop back to life even after you stab them with a pitchfork? It's the same with smartphones. That's the bitter lesson I learned after returning home from Greenland and getting a $1,106 bill from Sprint for international data...

Alleged O.C. drug dealer charged with murder in overdose death

2013-04-18 13:32:00

An alleged Mission Viejo drug dealer is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a charge of murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman by providing her with a lethal dose of drugs and then refusing to take her to the hospital after she lost consciousness....

The new Xbox One lets viewers Skype and change the TV channel through voice recognition.

2013-05-21 10:36:00

Xboxsnap Showing Xbox Skype Grimm Fpo3 En Us

2013-05-21 10:26:00

Xboxsnap Showing Xbox Skype Hobbit Fpo3 En Us

2013-05-21 10:26:00