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Kelly Ripa No words were needed from Regis Philbin's co-host, Kelly Ripa, to express how she felt about him hosting "Live! With Regis and Kelly" for the final time. The 80-year-old has clocked 995,000 minutes in his 28 years as the show's leading man. Leave your...

George Clooney is up for the role of the late Steve Jobs in a planned biopic, according to a report. Clooney is said to be vying with former ER costar Noah Wyle for the role, according to Now Magazine in the U.K. The article did not cite any sources for the claim. Since Jobs died on Oct. 6, there...

Heading out to brave the crowds on Black Friday? Don’t go it alone. Pack along some willing friends and family members, and load up on these apps that should make your experience much more tolerable. ShopSavvy – Scan a bar code to see if the product you’re about to buy is ac...

How social is your social life outside of social media? A new Facebook app from Ultimat Vodka attempts to answer that question by measuring the frequency of your checkins and using facial-recognition technology that analyzes photos on your Page to see how happy your friends are to hang out with yo...

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Pro tip: choosing “password” as your online password is not a good idea. In fact, unless you’re hoping to be an easy target for hackers, it’s the worst password you can possibly choose. “Password” ranks first on password management application provider SplashD...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his opinions on Microsoft, Apple, open vs. locked down technologies and the future of Linux, at the LinuxCon Brazil conference this week. “Technologies that lock things down tend to lose in the end,” said Torvalds when asked about Microsoft’s secure ...

Google‘s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility cleared a major hurdle on Friday as the electronics manufacturer’s stockholders overwhelmingly approved the move. About 99% of the shares voting in a special meeting of stockholders on Thursday were in favor of the merger agreement, the...

This week in 1939, German authorities declared martial law in Prague, warning protesters they would be shot if they took to the streets. If you didn’t already know this World War II history tidbit, you would have, if you were following @RealTimeWWII. The English-language Twitter account att...

It’s been a huge week for digital music lockers. First Apple made iTunes Match available to U.S. customers, then Google Music launched. These two services are competing with with Amazon’s Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in a new realm of cloud music storage...