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Oil prices cratered as government data showed U.S. oil production hitting a new high-water mark.

You probably know the name Dan Fogelman. He's the Hollywood screenwriter behind such animated movies as "Cars," "Bolt," and "Tangled," but also family comedies like "Fred Claus," "Crazy, Stupid, Love," and “The Guilt Trip.” Like many screenwriters before him, Fogelman has made the leap to filmmaking. Originally titled “Imagine,” now known as “Danny Collins,” Fogelman's directorial debut follows an aging rock star who decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon. Читать дальше...

Taking cognizance of the growing threat to the security of women in city buses, Haryana Roadways is about to launch a mobile application that would provide users details of routes that are considered safe or unsafe during different hours of the day.

The FTC is seeking assurances from Apple that it will protect sensitive health data collected by its upcoming smartwatch.

How will the new Congress deal with surveillance issues? Cato's Patrick G. Eddington is optimistic.

Credit ahead-of-the-curve kids Filmmaker magazine who named Josephine Decker one of their 25 New Faces of 2013, but to the rest of the world, this director came out of nowhere and then landed a whale of a debut at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. Dubbed the “Double Decker” experience, Berlin premiered Decker’s first two mysterious and enigmatic movies: “Butter On The Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely.” A multi-hyphenate who started in documentaries (producing for A&E, ABC, and Discovery)... Читать дальше...

Eight years ago Google's YouTube buy looked risky, even crazy. Not anymore.

Standard & Poor's assigned a junk rating to Twitter's debt on Thursday, saying the company had a "fair" risk profile.

Lonestar Capital Management, a $1 billion hedge fund based in San Francisco, is shutting down, according to The Wall Street Journal.

La Crosse County officials have dialed back some of the proposed new regulations for outdoor wood-fired furnaces, including delaying by a decade the deadline to replace older boilers with clea…

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. Oil fell to below $75/barrel, mostly due to news out of Mexico and a significant increase in U.S. production.

Google has raised it contribution to the ACM Turing Award for excellence in computing.