Web site puts face on homelessness

Fourteen years ago, Mark Horvath was living on the streets. Today he’s a sought-after speaker whose tweets and Web video interviews with homeless people have called attention to a growing problem.

Weather forced a postponement of a scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour for a third straight day Monday.

Post-traumatic stress is estimated to afflict more than 300,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, but until now, it’s been labeled a “soft disorder” — one without an objective biological path to diagnosis.

This week, 100 charities are battling for votes on Facebook to win $1 million.

A pint-sized version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with similarly powerful legs, razor-sharp teeth and tiny arms, roamed China some 125 million years ago, said scientists who remain startled by the discovery.

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: A group of insurgents hack into American military drones, using software they got off the Internet, according to The Wall Street Journal. But, for the benefit of that screenwriter likely pounding away right now to get his idea in first — as well as for the general public — what actually happened?

NASA has discovered water on the moon, based on data from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, that plunged into the moon last month, the principal investigator for LCROSS said Friday.

Now that they’ve gotten a peek at it, publishers of books, newspapers and magazines are hoping Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet device will breathe new life into their struggling industry.

For most of the past week, when someone typed “Michelle Obama” in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey.

The Pirate Bay — the BitTorrent tracker revered by file sharers across the globe and reviled by some of the world’s biggest entertainment companies — is under siege like never before.

Internet-enabled TVs, touch-screen “tablet” computers, e-book readers and other fun gadgets were scattered all over the enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here are the Top 10.

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.

Scientists are claiming to have found the “silver bullet” that will enable the cheap, easy printing of electronic components and transform the way we use computers.

Apple revamped its desktop and laptop lines Tuesday, dramatically redesigning the iMac all-in-one and MacBook laptop and adding a few updates to its Mac Mini line of small-scale desktops. It also introduced a multitouch mouse.

The first man on the moon marked the 40th anniversary of his historic achievement with characteristic understatement Monday, calling the program that put him on the lunar surface “a good thing to do.”

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