The Department of Justice announced a record $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota in a criminal probe of its handling of sudden acceleration complaints. The criminal charge claims Toyota defrauded consumers via misleading safety statements. Toyota Motor ...

Sony debuted their long-awaited VR headset at GDC last night tentatively called “Project Morpheus.” The device instantly gives credence to the not-even-out-yet Oculus Rift, and shows that Sony is forward thinking enough to realize that despite the fact that ...

A very long four days after Malaysia Air Flight MH370 disappeared seemingly without a trace, Malaysian officials have reportedly finally shared their radar data with American accident investigators who will assist in deciphering the data. Why it's taken this long ...

Titanfall drops today, and the reviews are pouring in across the internet (my own will be up later). Though largely positive, there seems to be a common thread running through them. Though the game is praised as mechanically great, it seems a bit…shallow.

For over 100 years, women have celebrated International Women's Day by telling stories with the hope of inspiring daughters and granddaughters and reflecting upon the price that history paid so they could realize their dreams. As women today, many of us ...

Despite the popularity of protein-rich diets like Atkins and Paleo, new research suggests that it may be wise to steer the opposite way, especially when it comes to cancer risk. In the new study, middle-aged people who ate protein-heavy diets had a markedly ...

Apple has unveiled the CarPlay infotainment service at the Geneva International Motor Show, which is coined as “the best iPhone experience on four wheels.” Using voice commands, CarPlay can make phone calls, play dictated text messages, get directions ...

Ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia have serious implications for investors, particularly Russian equities. But Russian investors won't be the only ones to take a hit. Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank said on Monday that the entire situation “bodes ...

At the annual Apple Apple shareholder meeting, CEO Tim Cook discussed the traction of the Apple TV in 2013. Cook revealed that the Apple TV generated over a “billion dollars of revenue last year.” Apple used to consider the $99 set-top box as a “hobby” ...

At the start of the week, a percentage of the market was expecting European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi and company to be more proactive at the ECB's forthcoming policy meeting on March 6. Essentially, forex traders want to see the ECB get ...

The high court in Pretoria, South Africa on Tuesday approved the Oscar Pistorius murder trial to be broadcast live setting a precedent for future high profile cases. The ruling was made following an application made by several South African media companies ...

Acetaminophen has been accumulating some evidence against its routine use in recent years, and now there may be more: The drug, if used during pregnancy, may raise the risk of behavior problems in the children years later. The authors of the new study, ...

What does the Comcast Comcast and Netflix Netflix joint announcement – that the companies have made a deal so that Comcast's broadband customers will receive a “high-quality Netflix video experience” — say about the Netflix view of the future?

President Obama has warned of consequences if the violence does not end, prompting some commentators to invoke other “red lines” that he has laid down in the past. Others have expressed nostalgia for the Bush administration that took a much more ...

The race for the Internet gigabit space took another leap forward this week with Google Google Fiber's announcement that it has targeted 34 more cities in 9 metro areas for access to Google internet services at the increasingly popular 1Gps speed. Salt Lake ...

The word you hear over and over discussing this $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook is: ballsy. As in: “I can't believe Mark Zuckerberg is being so ballsy” or “wow, this is ballsy… he's really going for broke.” A couple of years ago here in Forbes, ...

Last night's anticipated premiere of Walt Disney Walt Disney and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy trailer during ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live is a good reminder of how important it is to get these would-be blockbusters in front of general audiences. Twitter and ...

The list of chemicals that can affect brain development in children has grown. In a study out today in The Lancet Neurology, researchers outline new chemicals that may be contributing to what they dub the “global, silent pandemic of neurodevelopmental ...

Flappy Bird, a free, ad-showing smartphone app game created by Dong Nguyen, has been blowing up the media lately. After the game went viral and Nguyen began receiving tons of attention and ad revenue (to the tune of $50,000 per day), he announced ...

Janet Yellen speaking in October after President Barack Obama nominated her to be the first female head of the Federal Reserve as Yellen's predecessor, Ben Bernanke, looks on. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais). In her first testimony before Congress ...